In addition to the recording and production work I am often engaged in, I do quite a bit of mastering other people’s mixes into finished works...
Why is jamming such an important part of bluegrass music? Here’s my take on some of the reasons: – Bluegrass music, compared to jazz, pop, rock,...
Since 1901, the (kinda sorta inappropriately named at this point) National Association of Music Merchants has been welcoming music product retailers and distributors from around the...
Hello Troubadourians! Well, NAMM 2019 has come and gone. I was able to spend three days at the show this time, which was good. This year’s...
Hello Troubadourians! Journalism is a funny business. When you read this column sometime in February, remember that I wrote it in mid-January. I forgot that time...
Recently, I happened upon this “sidebar” that was included within an article about recording vocals that I wrote for Recording magazine in the spring of 2013....
Up until 1966 my connections with old-time blues had been mostly in collecting blues records and going to concerts and festivals. In the ’50s and ’60s...
This great bluegrass group out of Tennessee and the Carolinas will be making a rare appearance in San Diego on Friday, February 8th at the new...
I guess the first time I met Mike Seeger was at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Up until that time country music for me was the...
