Author: John Lawless

Good news for Blue Highway fans. Tim Stafford tells us that a new album won't be long in coming. "The band has finished tracking all but a few vocal parts for its new project, titled Sounds of Home. We recorded again

First Quality Music was profiled in yesterday's Small Business section of the New York Times online edition. But it wasn't really the sort of story that every businessman wants to see splashed across the pages (screens?) of such a major publication.

We caught up yesterday with Phil Leadbetter, resonator guitarist with The Whites, and reso raconteur at large. He has spent quite a career in bluegrass, including lengthy stints sliding around with JD Crowe & the New South, Wildfire, and Grasstowne. Phil

Cherryholmes, who we have watched grow from a cute family band to top-level bluegrass entertainers in the past ten years, has announced that they are hanging it up this Spring. In an announcement cross-posted this afternoon on the Cherryholmes and Skaggs

We've posted before about appeals from artists to generate start-up capital, recording, or travel costs directly from their fans. It's so popular across all genres of creative activity that it has its own buzzword: crowdsourcing. Not only that, a number of

Who doesn't love a cute kid singing a Bill Monroe song? Proud papa Kazuhiro Inaba sent along photos and a video of his 10 year old daughter, Alisa, singing Blue Moon Of Kentucky at the Bluegrass Fuyu Fest in Osaka on

We hate to sound like a gossip site, but... It has come to our attention that the United States Postal Service has contracted with an artist to start work on an official Bill Monroe postage stamp. The Postmaster and the USPS Stamp

Valerie Smith and her producer, fiddler and vocalist Beck Buller take us for a visit through the facilities of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, where they recorded the tracks for their next two albums, Blame It On The Bluegrass. Next two

Sunday's New York Times had a piece about a major acquisition by The Library Of Congress: a huge number of master recordings from Universal Music Group which have been sitting idle for as much as 85 years. These lacquer and glass

Mandolin Cafe and Northfield Mandolins are giving away a Model NF-F5M F-Style mandolin, valued at $2500. To enter, you simply need to provide your name and email address before January 31. Only one entry is allowed per email, and no registration