Author: John Lawless

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out will be celebrating the release of their album, Timeless Hits From The Past... Bluegrassed, with a live radio concert on WSM tonight at 7:00 p.m. (EST). The album was released earlier this week by Cracker

The Deadly Gentlemen are part of the eclectic acoustic music scene in and around Boston, using the instrumentation common to a bluegrass band to create music that Mr. Monroe never imagined. The band is the brainchild of banjoist Greg Liszt, who

Just about a year ago, Dale Pyatt recorded a song he wrote with Charlie Hall, celebrating the illustrious career of Secretariat, perhaps the most celebrated race horse in the 20th century. It was initially available only through The Secretariat Foundation,

There are few things in bluegrass I anticipate with quite the same enthusiasm as a new project from Kenny & Amanda Smith. I suppose I should admit that bias right up front. And I have not yet been disappointed by what

Montana's John Lowell, founding member and guitarist with the popular but now disbanded Kane's River, has just released a new album. I Am Going To The West consists primarily of Lowell singing his original material, with sparse guitar accompaniment. But when I

Mark Newton and Steve Thomas are the latest artists to be signed by Pinecastle Records, it has been announced today. A new duo project, Reborn, is scheduled for an April 9 release. Both of these fine musicians have enjoyed a long

Today (1/8/13) marks the season premiere of Justified, one of the few television dramas I follow week to week. I discovered the show two years ago quite by chance, when an episode began after something else I had on. In

Jesse Gregory is a strong young vocalist from Maryville, TN, currently enrolled in the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music program at East Tennessee State University. She has the distinction of being the first woman to declare a bluegrass major

We posted last summer about plans by Ken Scoggins & Millers Creek to finish a new Gospel album they expect to release on Old Homestead Records this year. Ken shared with us recently that after getting started at Tom T. Hall's studio

I had a lovely chat recently with Pete Goble, one of the most prolific songwriters we have in bluegrass music, and a man who has "been there, done that" as far as most any aspect of bluegrass in the latter