Author: John Lawless

The August issue of Guitar Player magazine has bluegrass music's own Rob Ickes right there on the cover, where you'll more commonly find a metalhead with a threatening grimace. You can find the magazine on newsstands across the US, and

Here's video of Alison Krauss & Union Station performing Miles To Go from their Paper Airplane CD on ABC's The View last Friday morning.

Recently we have posted news about B.J. and Skip Cherryholmes joining forces as Cherryholmes Brothers, and then that B.J. would be filling in on fiddle with Daily & Vincent while their regular fiddle man, Jesse Stockman, was recovering from a

Tom Adams has published an ebook of banjo tab transcriptions from Fired Up, the latest album by Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper. The tabs are based on the playing of crackerjack picker Jessie Baker who tracked the record with Michael, but

Dailey & Vincent recently posted this bus rehearsal video of Ralph Stanley's Going To Georgia, which one assumes will soon be making its way into the boys' stage show. The song was initially recorded by Ralph and his Clinch Mountain Boys,

Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road have chosen Jason Wheeler to play banjo with the group following four months of auditions. Jason hails from Radford, VA and had performed previously with with Travers Chandler and Avery County, and a number of regional

A first single from the upcoming Rebel release for Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice, The Heart Of A Song, can now be heard online. Junior hopes the new CD will be as well-received as his 2010 album, Heartaches and Dreams, which

This morning's (8/5) edition of The View on ABC will include a live in-studio performance from Alison Krauss & Union Station. The band is on tour promoting their new CD, Paper Airplane, and making a stop in NYC between shows in

Bluegrass singer, songwriter, guitarist and band leader Wayne Taylor is now at home and recovering nicely after being hospitalized last week with an acute intestinal condition. Taylor heads his own group, Wayne Taylor & Appaloosa, and is well-remembered for his many

Zach Gilmer is now playing banjo and guitar, and providing harmony vocals, as a member of Sierra Hull & Highway 111. He's been with the band for a couple months, and Sierra says that he's committed for the next year