Author: John Lawless

Noam Pikelny has had help from some unexpected sources when it comes to promoting his new album, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail. First, the Punch Brothers banjoist was featured in an hilarious short film, created by his Hollywood pal

Frank Solivan has announced that Danny Booth has joined his band, Dirty Kitchen, on bass. Booth is a west-coaster, like Frank. Born and raised in Alaska, he spent time with the state's favorite sons and daughters, Bearfoot, as well as Kathy

What the world needs now...  is another McCoury. And according to Lisa, wife of banjo picking Rob McCoury (son of Del), that's exactly what they have in the works. Lisa tells us that she is expecting their third child, and is due

Progressive banjo icon Ryan Cavanaugh is touring this month in Europe with jazz saxophonist Bill Evans, in support of Evans' new release, Dragonfly. The album is the third release with Evans' Soulgrass band, which mixes his contemporary jazz with elements of

It's that time of year again... when sensible adults indulge their inner child and don their whimsical or macabre apparel to celebrate Halloween. Anywhere you go today, you run the risk of encountering bank tellers dressed as witches, grocery clerks done

In only four short weeks, the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart has reached 100 reporting stations. We are delighted to acknowledge our 100th, WAMU's Bluegrass country in Washington, DC. Shortly after he took over as Senior Music Producer at the station,

Tonight in Boston, Della Mae will celebrate the release of their new CD, I Built This Heart, at Beantown's venerable Club Passim. If you, like most of our readers can't make the trip, you can watch the whole thing streaming

Andy Statman has been something of an enigma to the bluegrass world for the past 40 years. Clearly a master mandolinist with a demonstrated facility in the bluegrass idiom, he was even as a teenager drawn to incorporating elements of

Another important release this week is Goat Rodeo Sessions, a superstar project from Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma which dropped yesterday (10/25) on Sony Masterworks. The group was featured on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night,

Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail, the latest recorded offering from banjoist extraordinaire Noam Pikelny, is available today (10/25) on Compass Records. Yesterday's hilarious Funny Or Die video notwithstanding, this is an almost-entirely instrumental project, with two lone vocal tracks,