It wasn’t too long after I opened the store on July 31st 1967, that I came in contact with the blues. In fact, I’d been open...
Jamming is an essential part of bluegrass. Jamming occurs at every bluegrass festival and at virtually every other event where bluegrass musicians get together. In fact,...
Hello Troubadourians! Another NAMM show is now over and it’s time to let all of you in on what I saw and what we might expect...
Last month I heard from my old friend Bob Bovee that our mutual friend Glenn Ohrlin, maybe the greatest cowboy singer that ever lived, had passed...
It was a longer schlepp this time. In years past, the geographic considerations of attending the 2015 Winter NAMM show (the annual meeting of the North...
Hello Troubadourians! I have devoted the last few columns to encouraging everyone to play and practice as much and as often as possible. Also, I urged...
That, at first glance, may strike you as an odd question, but think about it. The bluegrass repertoire includes songs about coal mining, labor unions, strikes,...
Moving on. That was my latest project. Moving my studio. Moving from my home. Moving to another state. Moving in with other human beings. I get...
I first heard Rose Maddox on Town Hall Party sometime around 1953. She was calling herself the Sweetheart of Country Swing in those days and performing...
