Author: John Lawless

As we mentioned last week, The Grascals were featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday evening (1/25), where they performed Mystery Train from their current album, Life Finds A Way. Friday night's big guest was Robert De Niro, who

When we posted last Monday about Monroeville's alter ego, the cleverly-named Tex-Mex, Platorapido, we mentioned that they were scheduled to sing the National Anthem this weekend at an SEC basketball game in Knoxville. Unfortunately, network coverage rarely includes the singing of

Not that Steve & Eydie... We're talking Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. It's a safe assumption that our readers are well familiar with Steve Martin, both from his star turns in comedy and film, and his new-found career as a performing/recording

The people in the Czech Republic have long had a fondness for bluegrass music, even before they escaped from the Soviet Union, when the music was forbidden. I have spoken with long-time Czech grassers who told me that part of

Ralph Stanley - the Good Doctor, the Dean of Mountain Music, and one of the few survivors from the earliest days of bluegrass music - is the subject of a feature in the current (January/February) edition of Garden & Gun

We posted earlier this week about The Grascals being invited to perform at one of the many Inaugural Balls held in Washington on Monday to celebrate the installation of President Obama for his second term. Thanks to the folks at Laughing

Bob Mitchell will feature The Sons Of Bluegrass, a group consisting of students studying for the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music degree at East Tennessee State University, on his Best Of Bluegrass show this weekend. The show will air Friday

If you've been following bluegrass as long as your humble correspondent, you'll have watched Carl Jackson go from a skinny kid playing banjo with Jim & Jesse as a teenager in the late 1960s, to one of the most respected

We have learned that Billy Joe Foster, noted Oklahoma picker, passed away today at 51 years of age. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Foster played fiddle with Bill Monroe, bass with Country Gazette, and several instruments with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. He was

Chris Suen is a banjo player and old time music/dance enthusiast in Vancouver who was seriously injured in an auto accident in the late summer of 2012. He is a hard working musician, who had been touring throughout western Canada