Chris Jones

Alberta, Tennessee

Radio Personality at SiriusXM

Columnist at Bluegrass Today

Singer/songwriter/SiriusXM host/Bluegrass Today columnist/overly scheduled individual. Instagram: @chrisjonesgrass

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From The Side of the Road... pronoun reversal in bluegrass songs

1 week ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

Quite a few years ago now, Pete Wernick came up with the concept of the pronoun/role reversal in classic bluegrass songs and suggested I write a column about it, which I promptly did.
From The Side of the Road... festival workshop questions to set the mood

2 weeks ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

The summer festival and music camp season is fast-approaching, and with that comes the workshop season. I thought of it because just today I was listing some of the potential workshops my band members and I might offer at a festival later this year. If you’ve ever attended or taught a bluegrass workshop of any kind, you know that the instructor is only part of what makes a workshop a success or failure.
From The Side of the Road... pandemic fun, in retrospect

3 weeks ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

Now that we’ve passed the five-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was interesting to look back on this column written a year or so after that world-altering era began. It was all about the aspects of that first year that we would be missing later, when we all resumed our frenetic 21st century lives.
From The Side of the Road... music camp shenanigans

1 month ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

Music camp season is fast approaching. Do you have your camp outfits picked out (usually T-shirts from other camps) and washed yet? Do you have enough strings? Have you enrolled? In a typical music camp of any kind, there are the regular instrument classes that students sign up for, but often there are one-time workshops throughout the week on various subjects, from string-changing, to sound reinforcement.
From The Side of the Road... Mr Bluegrass Manners takes on 2025

1 month ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

Mr. Bluegrass Manners has been absent for quite a while, working on his forthcoming book, Advance and Retreat – A Guide to Appropriate Fan-to-Artist Distancing. We did persuade him to return, however, to take some questions that have been simmering among Bluegrass Today readers. Dear Mr. Bluegrass Manners,I attend a weekly bluegrass jam in our area called “Pete’s Home Jam” which takes place at—and this may surprise you—Pete’s home. Pete’s a great guy and a decent guitar player and singer.
From The Side of the Road... mixed messages in bluegrass advertising

1 month ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

Greetings from the big city of New York. I’m here paying a visit to SiriusXM studios. Shortly I’m heading to Chicago to play with the Night Drivers on Friday, and on to Murphysboro, Illinois on Saturday. In short, I’m busy, plus Mr. Bluegrass Manners hasn’t returned a single text or phone call from me this week.
From The Side of the Road... Mr Bluegrass Manners does COVID

1 month ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

Next week there’s going to be a long overdue new Mr. Bluegrass Manners column, so to get you in the mood, we’re rerunning one from 2020 this week. Not just any one, though; this is the first MBM column after the infamous COVID-19 pandemic had struck us in March of 2020. This five-year anniversary brings back a lot of memories for us, and a few stories, most of which took place somewhere between our kitchen and bathroom.
From The Side of the Road... should there be bluegrass sequels?

1 month ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

Sequels are so often disappointing, Santa Clause 2 being a notable exception. Speaking of holiday classics, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol 2: The Next Verse ,wasn’t bad either. If you recall, Scrooge becomes the manager of the Cratchit family band and together––with a little help from St. Nick––they put on a benefit concert to save the mill where Peter Cratchit is employed (now a Hallmark made-for-TV movie).
The Angry Canadian

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Chris Jones

Since 2018, Doug Ford has been the unlikely premier of the province of Ontario, a close equivalent to the governor of a U.S. state, if more governors looked like longshoremen and gave out their personal-cellphone number to anyone who asked for it. (I didn’t ask Ford for his, but he volunteered it to me anyway when he found out I was a local. “Text twice if it’s important,” he told me.
From The Side of the Road... drop a name, enhance your status

2 months ago | bluegrasstoday.com | Chris Jones

I addressed the issue of name-dropping early on in the life of this column. Béla said he was pretty happy with it, so I felt no need to follow up. Dan and Suzanne had also given it their stamp of approval (as you may recall, Dan was executive director of the IBMA at the time). Ken and Robin also went back and read it, too, and they gave it the thumbs up. When you have people like that in your court, why mess with success?

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