Author: John Lawless

CF Martin has posted a video that captures an interesting part of the mystique that surrounds their celebrated guitars built prior to World War II. It contains footage shot in 1939 at the old Martin shop on North Street, which was

The Grascals recorded a special video birthday salute to Andy Griffith, who celebrated his yesterday (6/1). The video also includes a live version of Dooley, one of the songs included on their new album, Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot And

Rounder Records has recently begun a weekly series of remembrances on their official blog from the early days of their 40 years in bluegrass, old time and roots music. They are calling the feature Way Back Wednesday, and post a new

The latest CD from Audie Blaylock and Redline, I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky, was released this past Monday (5/30). As we had mentioned in earlier posts, this one is a concept album, a Bill Monroe tribute. It was recorded with

Here is the last batch of DelFest photos from Milo Farineau, taken Saturday night and during Sunday's final set of performances. A big shout out to Diane and Milo Farineau for their coverage of Del's Memorial Day bash. We plan to

Watching the great coverage from DelFest this weekend, I was struck by the inescapable fact that Del McCoury, a true second-generation bluegrass icon, is going out of his way to put his imprimatur on the jamgrass, newgrass, alt-grass, hippie grass,

Starting today (5/31), there will be a new bluegrass music chart available online. The Top 66 Bluegrass Chart is hosted by The Alternate Root webzine and will be published weekly online. The Top 66 is designed as a radio playlist chart

We heard this weekend from Donald Nitchie, editor of the venerable Banjo NewsLetter, with some info about the upcoming June issue. The cover feature is an interview with Tom Boyd from Dry Branch Fire Squad, conducted by Greg Cahill from Special

We received a note on Monday from Richard Hawkins, who reports for both the Bluegrass Ireland Blog and the European Bluegrass Blog. He wanted to let us know about the terrific photo-essay he recently published, covering the 3rd annual Red Wine

This Saturday (6/4), friends and supporters of Phil Leadbetter will assemble at the Dumplin' Valley Farm in Kodak, TN to host a benefit concert. Phil received a diagnosis of Hodgkin's Lymphoma in March of this year. He has since undergone a