Author: John Lawless

Reason magazine has put together a video followup to the legal controversy that arose last summer when a pair of federal agencies raided the Gibson Guitar company in Nashville. Large stocks of valuable wood were seized by armed agents, along

Lou Reid & Carolina have a new CD, Callin' Me Back Home, ready to go, with a debut single just released via Airplay Direct. The song is Carolina Moonshine Man, written by Reid, Ray Edwards and Terry Foust. Lou tells us that the

Friday morning (2/24) will find Sammy Shelor of Lonesome River Band visiting Lonesome Pine RFD, airing on WFDU in the New York City metro market. Sam will join host Carol Beaugard at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) to talk about LRB's new 8 song CD,

Here's another change on the bluegrass band front. Scott Walker has been tapped to play banjo with Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa, filling a spot recently vacated by Lee Marcus. Lee had done two stints with Taylor's band, and is leaving

Mountain Heart is having a heckuva strong start to their new year. Fiddler Jim VanCleve tells us that they have kicked off 2012 with a string of ten sold out shows, with a couple of nearly full houses in the mix

If you weren't able to catch the 500th episode of The Simpsons this past Sunday night, you missed the opportunity to hear the show's closing theme performed by Alison Krauss & Union Station. But never fear, here it is for your

This July at the Uncle Dave Macon Days festival in Murphreesboro, TN, two fabulous banjo players will receive awards for their lifetime contributions to the instrument. Macon, of course, was the legendary entertainer who used frailing banjo to accompany himself during

With the spirited discussion about the boundaries of bluegrass music going on in the comments of our recent post, IBMA at the Crossroads, it's timely to catch up with banjo wizard Ryan Cavanaugh. Ryan is a singularly accomplished picker, equally at

This coming weekend, the folks at Bluegrass Underground will be doing a marathon taping for their second season on PBS television. Shows are scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday (2/24-26) deep inside the earth at Tennessee's Cumberland Caverns, just a

We caught up last week with Ken Scoggins, who reports that he is currently working on a follow-up to his successful 2010 album with Miller's Creek, Once In A Lifetime Thing. That last was a traditional bluegrass record, but Ken says