Author: John Lawless

Steep Canyon Rangers will mark their 10th Anniversary tomorrow evening (1/21) with a special concert at the Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club near their home in Asheville, NC. Joining them in celebrating this milestone will be artists from

Rounder Records has announced April 12 as the release date for Paper Airplane, the long-anticipated new album from Alison Krauss & Union Station. This will be the first band project since 2004, and the first since Alison's genre-bending, mega-hit album

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver performing with a drummer! Has the whole world gone mad? What's next... electric pickups, flying to gigs, a 20 minute jam version of Yellow River? Or, in the words of the immortal Peter Venkman: "Human sacrifice, dogs

After serving an apprenticeship as a bluegrass sideman, vocalist and resonator guitarist Glenn Gibson has stepped out front on his debut album, When Times Are Hard. Gibson has been a member of both Dale Ann Bradley and Marty Raybon's touring bands,

Compass Records has been promising the next Gibson Brothers album early this year, and have now announced a release date of February 22. Help My Brother contains 12 new tracks, many written by the singing/songwriting brother duo, and recorded by their

Here's an album  from 2010 that I had meant to mention some time ago, Luke Abott's fine collection of mountain music, performed in the old time way on Take Me Home. Abbott plays banjo, guitar and fiddle as accompaniment for his

Cumberland River Band will be celebrating a major milestone next month, when their music is featured on the FX television series Justified. The show is something of a modern day Western, set in rural Kentucky, and starring Timothy Olyphant as

A Whole Lotta Lonesome from Cumberland Gap Connection is set for a January 20 release on Kindred Records. The album features 12 new cuts, primarily written by members of the band. Guitarist and lead vocalist Mike Bentley contributes four songs, bass

Janet Davis has released a new mandolin instructional package, The Ultimate Mandolin Songbook. Like its companion book, The Ultimate Banjo Songbook, this new volume contains 26 popular bluegrass songs and tunes in tab and standard notation, along with a pair

Bluegrass Music Profiles magazine burst upon the scene in the Spring of 2003, at a time when conventional wisdom insisted that print media was on its way out. They started as a black and white journal, on newsprint, which by