by Bert Daniel | Nov 13, 2021 | Welcome Column
Few topics have inspired more bluegrass and old time song writing than the subject of moonshining. The New Lost City Ramblers devoted an entire LP to the subject called Prohibition is a Failure. And the fascination with the subject continues to the present day with...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 14, 2021 | Reviews
Deeper Shade of Blue: Twenty www.pinecastlemusic.com Song List: Broken Lady, Blue Was Just a Color, Making Plans, Whether or Not, Blue and Broken Hearted, Jared’s Rag, Radio Tears, If You Only Knew, Power in a Moment, I’m On My Way, Promise We Made, Four Wheel...
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...
