Author: John Lawless

Mandolinist Jesse Daniel has joined The Josh Williams Band. The position has been open for several months, with a number of pickers handling the shows, and Josh is happy to have Jesse on board. Daniels is a native of Fyffe, AL

WAMU's Bluegrass Country has a couple of special features on Wednesday (5/19) that may be of interest for those who can catch them online. In fact, these will serve as nice bookends to your online listening day. At 9:00 a.m. (EDT),

The first single from the upcoming Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford CD, Just Along For The Ride, is now available to radio via Airplay Direct. The album, a songwriters project featuring the pair's compositions, is called Dogwood Winter, and it

The Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival is widely viewed as the official kickoff of the annual bluegrass festival season. It may not always be the very first major outdoor festival of the year, but given its size and the caliber of talent

Henri Deschamps, proprietor of The Mast Farm Inn, a lovely B&B in western North Carolina, has announced a new series of intimate musical retreats, designed to offer serious students of bluegrass music an opportunity to study closely with its top

Always be closing if you want the knife set! The Cadillac Sky boys are putting you to work, sending fans into the streets to peddle copies of their new CD, Letters in the Deep. They are holding a sales contest, with

Back in the late summer of 2008, we first shared news about country crooner Joe Diffie making a return to bluegrass music, from whence he came before Nashville made him a star in the 1990s. Rounder signed him to a

Nashvilled-based Compass Records is running a special sale which ends tomorrow (5/18), with $5 from each CD sold going to the IBMA Bluegrass Trust Fund. The Compass headquarters were not damaged in the recent Nashville flooding, but seeing the devastation

Recording King is so stoked about the debut of their new Elite model banjo (which we profiled last December), that they have released a video extolling its virtues. It was shot in the shop where the banjos are set up

Just in time for the release of their next CD, Antifogmatic, Punch Brothers will begin a series of dates with banjo picker, actor and comedia Steve Martin on June 12 at the Ravina Festival near Chicago. They have a total