by Patrick Campbell | Nov 11, 2021 | Regional News
JAN DALE WRITES: I am an Australian Bluegrass radio presenter and an old friend of Carl Pagter who I met along with many other CBA members in the wonderful performance and hospitality suites you always had at IBMA. The first I attended was at Owensboro in 1992 or 1993...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 10, 2021 | Welcome Column
Daily Grist #1: “The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 10, 2021 | Reviews
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road: I Can Go To Them www.pinecastlemusic.com Song List: Going Up, Brush Arbors, Happy on My Way, Lessons of the Book, Jesus Hold My Hand, I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer, Travel Travel On, Further Along, He Will Set Your...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 7, 2021 | Reviews
Colebrook Road: Hindsight is 2020 www.colebrookroad.com Song List: Mountainside, Back To Where We’ve Been, All You Need To Know, Hindsight is 20-20, Carolina Side, Dry Ground Blues, All of Our Days, Coyote, Dance in Three, Days in the Nighttime. When a band is...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 7, 2021 | Welcome Column
I’ve seen very good players cringe when someone in a jam calls the Ralph Stanley classic Clinch Mountain Backstep. Okay, maybe not very good players but just the same some good jammers do flinch at the call. Because I revel in redundancy, or because maybe there are...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 5, 2021 | Interview, Music Reviews, Reviews
George Jackson is an accomplished, Nashville-based fiddle player who tours as a band leader and fiddler for hire, working with artists such as Front Country, Peter Rowan, Missy Raines and many more. Born in New Zealand, George grew up in a musical family and first...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 5, 2021 | Welcome Column
I was completely unprepared for what I was looking at. Although I was part of a class that was showing me how to use special equipment to see this stuff, somehow I was not really ready to appreciate what it was that this class was allowing me to see. I adjusted the...
by Bruce Campbell | Nov 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
One of things that makes bluegrass fun is arguing about it. It excites passions in people, and the urge to defend one’s own passions is strong – especially around a lantern on the ground in the middle of a circle of jammers in the middle of the night. People...
by Patrick Campbell | Oct 31, 2021 | Reviews
John Reischman: New Time and Old Acoustic – Song List: Suzanne’s Journey, The Coyote Trail, Horses of Dorrico, Cascadia, Sarafina, Rosco’s Ramble, The Old Steeple, Crescent Moon, Salt Spring, Ballyhooly/Uncle John Nyhan, Dandy Long Legs, Sugar in the Gourd, Old...
by Patrick Campbell | Oct 31, 2021 | Coming Event(s)
Highlights of upcoming Bay Area bluegrass and old time events; complete listings at www.bgsignal.com. To make corrections, provide updates, or get on the email list for his monthly newsletter, contact Peter Thompson <bgsignal@comcast.net>CONCERTSNov. 1: Skillet...
