Author: John Lawless

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes and Jason Carter fiddle their vows on the Opry - photo © Jay Strausser It was the highlight of the bluegrass society season in Nashville when Bronwyn Keith-Hynes married Jason Carter at the Grand Ole Opry House on Tuesday,

Billy Blue Records has a new single from Carson Peters & Iron Mountain going out to radio tomorrow, and we are delighted to premiere it for our readers here today. It's a song Carson wrote with Jerry and Eric Marshall called

More great news from The Kody Norris Show! Banjo player Josiah Tyree and his wife, Cassie, are celebrating the birth of their second child. Hillie Ann Tyree was born on Sunday, September 29th at 6:04 a.m. She made her appearance weighing

Good friends and fellow songwriters Tim Stafford and Thomm Jutz have a new album, Wall Dogs, set for release this Friday, October 18. Like their previous duo effort, Lost Voices, from 2023, it includes songs the two have written together

Here is another pair of benefit shows with proceeds going to assist those who have suffered such personal tragedy following Hurricane Helene. Both are scheduled featuring bluegrass performers, one in Knoxville and the other in Nashville. On October 22, WDVX radio

After several years of requests from fans, The Kody Norris Show has finally released a recording of The Auctioneer, a classic country song from 1956 that is always a big number for Kody when they perform it live. When we

CMH Records has dug deep into their vaults for another classic album of yesteryear, and pulled out Arthur Smith and Don Reno's 1979 record, Feudin' Again, for a digital reissue. The label tells us that this release, set for this

We've written before about the interesting and innovative old time duo, Hills of Belgium, from, you guessed it... Belgium. There is much that is incongruous in that previous sentence. Appalachian old time music from Belgium? Yes, indeed. They call it "mountain

During last month's IBMA Bluegrass Live! in downtown Raleigh, NC, I had an unexpected and very pleasant conversation with Wayne Brewer, son of Kentucky bluegrass icon Gary Brewer. Wayne had not planned to attend this year, but when a business

An obscure Ralph Stanley recording from 1983 has delivered one of the most recorded bluegrass songs of the past few years. A Robin Built A Nest on Daddy's Grave, written by Edna Sykes, has been cut recently by Tommy Brown,