by Bert Daniel | Aug 10, 2024 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note: One of my favorite welcome columnists and picking buddies over the years has been Marcos Alvira. Marcos knows a lot about bluegrass, baseball and a lot of other things. Here is one of Marcos’s columns from way back. I hope you have as much fun...
by Bert Daniel | Aug 7, 2024 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music, like all music, relies on accurate rhythm to make it sound right. When we play music together we have to find the groove and adjust appropriately to the prevailing rhythm of our ensemble. Some people tend to speed up and some people try to control...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 28, 2024 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: If there is one person who lives and breathes bluegrass campouts, it’s Deb Livermore. This tireless volunteer has organized countless events where the rest of us just sit around having fun, drinking beer and picking. Deb is a gal who makes things...
by robin | Jul 21, 2024 | Reviews
Mohavisoul www.MohaviSoul.com Song List: Hurry Up and Wait, Prisoner’s Song, Full Circle, Get Lucky Again, Old River Knows, The Way, Dog in the Middle, To Be With You Again, With Care From Someone, Live and Let Live. Mohavisoul likes to define their sound as “original...
by Bert Daniel | Jul 17, 2024 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass fans are not that much different from average people and most of us from time to time like to watch feature films. If you asked a random bluegrass fan to name a popular film about bluegrass they would most likely mention Oh Brother Where Art Thou, a film by...
by robin | Jul 14, 2024 | Reviews
Song List: Alien Song, Fairies & Lightning, Set in Stone, Steel & Rust, Discovering Me, Try, Trails of Home, Circustown, Long Time. Broken Compass Bluegrass is the latest in a long line of young California bands to take the stage and be noticed by the...
by Bert Daniel | Jun 3, 2024 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass is now an international music genre. People just like us love it all over the world and one of those places is the United Kingdom. It makes sense because so much of our Bluegrass musical influence comes from the British Isles. A few years ago I was able to...
by Bert Daniel | May 31, 2024 | Uncategorized, Welcome Column
If there’s one single thing Bluegrass needs in order to maintain its place as a legitimate distinct music genre it might be ensuring that we have a constant supply of three fingered banjo pickers. There are certainly good bands that play great Bluegrass without a...
by Bert Daniel | May 29, 2024 | Uncategorized, Welcome Column
I guess I’m a little late on this thought. Valentine’s Day might have been a more appropriate time to post a welcome column about the human heart but it’s never a bad time to pay homage to the organ that keeps us all alive every day....
by robin | May 17, 2024 | Reviews
Spruce and Maple Music Song List: Just a Little Ways Down the Road, Enough, Texas Wind, Why’d You Have to Break My Heart?, Quaking Aspen, Trees, Long Gone, Hound Dog Blues, the Banks Are Covered in Blue, Down on the Levee, The Day Is Mine, Rock the Pain Away. Bay Area...
