That’s why I decided to do some “research” into how some of our best-loved or even least-loved band names came into being. I have to admit that some band names don’t quite fit these naming protocols, and I still find it interesting to know why bands chose the words they did, in any case. This is how we got band names like “Carolina Road,” “Blue Highway,” “East Nash Grass,” “Kentucky Grass,” “Appalachian Road (Show),” etc. “Carolina”) or time of day (which usually ends up being “midnight”) from column A, and combining it with a noun like “Train,” “Town” (or “Towne”), “HIghway,” or “Octopus” (that one is rarer) from column B. I discussed various tried and sometimes-true methods for coming up with a name for a bluegrass band, a very common and traditional one being the “something somethings.” This is how we got “The Lonesome Ramblers,” “The Shenandoah Cut-Ups,” and of course the “Blue Grass Boys” (or with that original spelling, is it really the “something something somethings”?).Īlso heavily in use since the 1970s is what I called the “modern bluegrass band name kit.” That’s the system that entails picking an adjective, geographical place name (e.g. The first installment dealt with the subject of naming bands, since it’s something every band has to do before they go about getting work, building web sites, playing gigs, and eventually going on hiatus to focus on self-care.
Way back in the first year of this column I did a series on band management, pretending that I knew something about it.
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