Author: John Lawless

We've posted a few times about the FX original program Justified, and the bluegrass-tinged music they use during the show's soundtrack. It started with Rench, a hip hop artist who (as Ganstagrass) incorporates bluegrass elements in his music beds. He landed

Sugar Hill Records has announced May 17 as the release date for Sarah Jarosz's second album, Follow Me Down. This talented young singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist will see her new CD hit just as she completes her second year of studies

Doyle Lawson will be bringing the music from his new Drive Time CD to Knoxville's WDVX today at noon. He and the members of Quicksilver will perform live on the April 6 edition of Blue Plate Special. Philly rockers The Great

The Bankester Family is hard at work on their third CD, and guitarist and proud papa Phil Bankester has produced a video about the first single. I'll let Phil tell the tale... Very early on in the planning for this album,

The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced a new award, but this one isn't for picking and singing. The first annual IBMA Bluegrass Scholarship Prize will be awarded in 2011 to graduate students or successful MA/Ph.D. candidates whose degrees were achieved

Jeff Huss and Mark Dalton have been building high quality guitars (and more recently, banjos) in their old-school Huss & Dalton shop in Staunton, VA since 1995. Both fingerstyle and flatpicking guitarists have treasured these fine instruments, which count such

Recording King is set to release their latest dreadnaught guitar model, the RD-316. They are especially proud to note that this all solid wood instrument, with a lifetime warranty, will carry a minimum advertised price of $689 when it starts shipping

What would you call a bluegrass Gospel group composed of young ladies from south Mississippi who happen to be identical, red-headed triplets? If you are Nicloe, Nika and Natalie Taylor, you go by Red Roots. Now 19 years of age, the

Jimmy Metts with New Cuts Of Bluegrass has announced the winner in our Win A Free Track contest. The High Rollers from Tennessee will have a track from their Welcome The High Rollers CD included on the April issue of New

Since Cherryholmes announced their unexpected dissolution in January, the bluegrass world has been rife with rumors and speculation. Will the kids reform without mom and dad? Perhaps they will all go on to work with other groups? Well, we have an answer