Author: John Lawless

Word has come that a new Yonder Mountain String Band studio project is in the works for next year. The bluegrass-fusion specialists are recording in Colorado now, and will hit the road in late January for 3 solid weeks of

Valerie Smith has one last announcement before 2010 goes into the record books. The Bluegrass Belle from Bell Buckle, TN has released a free iPhone app, designed to help her fans and friends stay up to date with music, videos, photos,

Kentucky's New River Line is planning an early 2011 release for their next CD, I'm Movin On, on Kindred Records. It's a bittersweet announcement for the band, as proceeds from the new project will be donated to the Jerry Wayne Chaney

Dixie Bee-Liners have a Christmas single, which takes a comical look at how Christmas appears to a hard-working St. Nick. It's a new song, Santa Wants A Whiskey, written by Bee-Liners brain trust Brandi Hart and Buddy Woodward, and offered for

Merry Christmas from all of us at Bluegrass Today!

Here's a lovely bluegrass Christmas gift from the Green Whisky Boys in Czech Republic - a Christmas sing at a pub in Chotýcany. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-qkDz0n6Y Veselé Vánoce, everybody!

Sad news to share just before Christmas... We are working on a more complete remembrance of this remarkable woman, but will quickly share this note that Tom and Betsy Adler have passed along. I'm truly sorry to report that our very dear

We posted in early November about the passing of Roger Everett, who managed Everett's Music Barn in Suwannee, GA for the past 40 years. During that time, most every bluegrass band who toured the east coast made a stop for

We just received a note from James Alan Shelton, lead guitarist and road manager for Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys. He reports that the band has a new banjo player, their second since Steve Sparkman left the group

When Andy Ball joined Lonesome River Band in early 2007 to play mandolin and sing tenor, he told band leader Sammy Shelor that he wasn't sure he could stay more than a year. Andy was living in Detroit and attending