by Bert Daniel | Dec 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
If you been following along for the almost 8 years I’ve been inhabiting this space, you would know I’ve made a welcome column career sharing my views and tales regarding a number of areas and topics in my musical life that have caused me some level of frustration,...
by Patrick Campbell | Dec 2, 2021 | Bluegrass Musicians
Bill Keith and Earl Scruggs and their collaboration to create Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo (Peer International Corporation, New York. 1968). This book, a collaboration between Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith and Burt Brent, is the first serious and certainly...
by Bert Daniel | Nov 28, 2021 | Welcome Column
I was going through the newspaper a few years ago and I came across an article about how the east bay city of Albany relocated homeless people from a waterfront peninsula called the bulb in order to make way for a new park extension. A couple dozen or so of the last...
by Maggie Sokolik | Nov 26, 2021 | Bluegrass History, Welcome Column
Digging through the archives, I found this article by Lon Suiter, which appeared in the 1986 Bluegrass Breakdown. It presents an interesting slice of perhaps lesser-known bluegrass history. There is a lot of music referenced in this article, much of which is readily...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 24, 2021 | Announcements
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? Broadcast on www.KALW.org (91.7 FM) on Nov. 27, 2021, 5-6 pm (Pacific Time) Available on demand for one week via www.KALW.org/local-music-player (select ‘Bluegrass Signal’) First hour broadcast four times...
