Author: John Lawless

Dana Bourgeois has posted a video in which he describes how he selects tops to use in his guitars. It was filmed at his shop in Lewiston, Maine located in an old mill that pre-dates the US Civil War. Bourgeois chooses

It was a good run... 60 plus years. But now, based on the testimony of a janitor/banjo player in rural West Virginia, it has come to an end. Hiram "Tootie" Walker says that the image of Bill Monroe appeared in a

Here's one last piece on IBMA's 2010 Leadership Bluegrass, this time from Gary Reid. Gary has spent a lifetime in service to bluegrass music, working first at Rebel Records and then with his own label, Copper Creek Records. He has also

One more release to note for March 30...  Swedish grassers G2 have dropped a single from their next CD, Untapped Routes. The song is Still Standing, written by lead singer/guitar Chris Olsson, and it is available now to broadcasters through

Tuesday, March 30, saw the release of a number new bluegrass CDs. The fact that the 31st is the cutoff date for consideration in the 2010 IBMA awards is surely an unrelated coincidence. The Grascals saw their fourth Rounder CD hit

There is a bunch of great music in store for tonight's (3/31) edition of Tennessee Shines, broadcast live on WDVX from Knoxville's Bijou Theatre. Four acts are scheduled to perform, along with host Jim Lauderdale. You'll hear sets from grassers Brand

Well, it seems like the theme on Bluegrass Today of late is candid video shot in the recording studio. First we had The Infamous Stringdusters, Cadillac Sky and Blue Moon Rising, and now we feature footage from Sierra Hull. She spent

OK... we have our winners in the Things That Fly comment contest. Thanks to everyone who played along. We had 100 entries, and it wasn't easy to pick the best from the many clever and witty contributions. Each of these

I'll admit I have a soft spot for biographies about the first half of the 20th century, especially those that remind us of how much easier our lives are in the present day. The recent Ralph Stanley autobiography, Man of

Here is the second (and final) video report from Blue Moon Rising, who spent this past weekend at Randy Kohrs' Slack Key Studio working on a new CD. We have written a good bit about the trials and tribulations founding member