Author: John Lawless

Your Roots Are Showing - Ireland's Folk Conference has announced that they will be giving their first ever Lifetime Achievement in Music Award to Peter Rowan. Rowan will accept this award for his five decade career in bluegrass, Americana, and folk

Billy Blue Records debuts a new single today from Kristy Cox, written by Marcy Each, Susan Anderegg, and Jerry Salley, about the joys of a rural lifestyle. Titled Front Porch of Paradise, producer and co-writer Salley said that the theme grabbed

Fast becoming one of bluegrass music's most admired songwriters, Thomas Cassell has made a strong and indelible impression on our industry in just a short time. For his latest Mountain Fever Records single, Cassell presents a truly thoughtful song called Reincarnation

Danny Stewart, bluegrass multi-instrumentalist, bass player with US Navy Band Country Current, and proprietor of Turtle Hill Banjo Co., shared word of his adventures in South Africa last month. He was on the trail of an all original 1939 Gibson

From Toronto, the Lonesome Ace Stringband remembers Hank Williams, perhaps the world's greatest country artist, and indeed its likely creator, in their latest single. The Aces, consisting of John Showman on fiddle and Chris Coole on banjo, have been opening up

This past weekend, the 53rd running of the Grand Master Fiddler Championship was hosted in Franklin, TN, bringing in fiddlers from all over the US to compete for that most cherished prize of Grand Master. Throughout the day, a number of

Mountain Fever Records has released a new single for Junior Sisk, the final track on his current If There's a Will There's a Way album, one called Old Cold Shoulder. Junior, of course, has been one of bluegrass music's top traditional

Tabitha and David Benedict, one of bluegrass music's latest power couples, welcomed their first child earlier this summer. The two perform together as The Foreign Landers, and with Tabitha's brothers as Cup O'Joe. Both are first rate instrumentalists, and Tabitha

Sound Biscuit Records has a new gospel offering from Kenny Stinson & Perfect Tym'n. It's a popular song called I'll Stick With The Old Stuff, written by Stephen Paul Phillips. Stinson, who plays mandolin with the group, is an experienced professional

Valerie Smith is back with a new single and music video, a song written by Nashville songwriter and songbird Donna Ulisse, who also produced the track with a cast of Music City superpickers. What I've Got Right Here celebrates the simple