Author: John Lawless

With original banjo man Joe Dean taking his exit to pursue other interests, Dailey & Vincent have announced that Jessie Baker will henceforth be picking the five in their show. Baker has made quite a name for himself in a relatively

North Carolina grassers Nu-Blu are using the release of their new single, Family Quilt, to help raise money for Duke Children’s Hospital in Durham, NC. Duke is a nationally-recognized facility that cares for a large percentage of seriously ill children in

California bluegrass singer/songwriter Kathy Kallick is finishing work on a new recording with her eponymous touring band, set for a Fall 2012 release on Live Oak Records. This project will be entitled Time, and features Kallick on guitar and vocals, with Annie

The Scruggs family is hosting a public funeral for Earl Scruggs on Sunday (4/1) at 2:00 p.m. (CDT) at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. The free event, billed as a Celebration of Life for Earl Scruggs, will be broadcast live, commercial-free, by WSM

The tributes to Earl Scruggs are coming in faster than we can get them posted! No surprise, given the tremendous impact he had on musicians worldwide, and personally on the many friends he made in the bluegrass and country music

Sierra Hull & Highway 111 will be performing live on WSVS radio from Crewe, VA on Saturday afternoon (3/31) at 1:30 p.m. (EDT. Ms. Hull and the boys have a sold-out show later in the evening in nearby Kenbridge, and will

Sadly lost in all the Earl Scruggs coverage, we have learned that banjo legend Doug Dillard is hospitalized in Nashville. When first admitted earlier this week, he was put on a ventilator because he couldn't breathe. His family reports that he

We've heard this morning from a number of highly-influential banjo players, each sharing their personal reflections on the passing of the greatest among them, the man, THE Earl Scruggs. Sonny Osborne, who internalized Scruggs music as a young teen, and is

Tony Trischka has a well-deserved reputation as both an innovator and an instructor of five string banjo. Prior to his current endeavor, the online Tony Trischka School of Banjo, he had more than a dozen banjo instruction books and DVDs,

Fellow banjo legend Terry Baucom pulled together a few reflections on the passing of Earl Scruggs, which he shared as an audio file. We thank Terry, and his wife Cindy, for taking the time for this lovely remembrance. Terry Baucom on Earl