Author: John Lawless

What a great album title! One Foot In The Honky Tonk is the name of the upcoming CD release from James Reams and the Barnstormers, due shortly on Reams' Mountain Redbird label. Though based now in the bluegrass mecca of Brooklyn

Rhonda Vincent shared a big batch of photos from her recent appearance on A Prairie Home Companion. She and The Rage performed on the show this past Saturday (2/12) from Bemidji, MN. Her entourage snapped photos before, during and after the

Sugar Hill will be releasing audiophile vinyl editions of their three Nickel Creek albums as part of the April 16 Record Store Day events. This includes their self-titled debut album, This Side, and Why Should The Fire Die each reissued

Jonathan Buckner and Chosen Road is a touring Gospel bluegrass band based in Princeton, WV. Their new CD, Old Time Way, has just been released by Poor Mountain Music. They have a busy schedule of Church shows booked for 2011, and

Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers have released one of the finest bluegrass Gospel records of the past few years. No surprise there, as Mullins has a long history of producing such, and is himself one of the finest tenor

Wonderful news - Lynn Morris will perform at the 2011 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival this Spring! A very special, one-time reunion of The Lynn Morris Band has been arranged for Sunday, May 1, the final day of the festival. She will

The International Bluegrass Music Association has another of their online professional development seminars scheduled for this week. This next one will be held on Wednesday (2/16) from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (EST), and the topic is Developing a Business Plan.

And the Best Bluegrass Album is... Mountain Soul II from Patty Loveless. Anybody starting to see a pattern emerging where the bluegrass Grammy is concerned? There was a great deal of excitement when this category was added a few years ago,

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage will be guests on this weekend's edition of A Prairie Home Companion, which airs live tonight (2/12) from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (EST). The show is carried on almost 600 public radio stations in the US, with some

It's been a while since we've heard from Larry Cordle, the brilliant songwriter who brought such classics as Highway 40 Blues and Murder On Music Row to wide audiences. Cord has been a bluegrass guy from the beginning, though, and it