Author: John Lawless

A recurring frustration for performers who sell merchandise at shows is their inability to accept credit card payments. There are portable card scanners, but they often require AC power or online access to operate - typically unavailable to merch vendors at

Lou Reid is also in the studio this month, recording a new Gospel project with his trusty band, Carolina. They are tracking at Eastwood Recording Studio with Wes Easter engineering and Lou producing. Lou tells us that they are just getting

Sierra Hull is having an eventful freshman year in college. She entered the Berklee College of Music last fall with the promise and pressure that comes with Berklee's prestigious Presidential Scholarship, and found herself juggling the arduous first year class load

Chris Pandolfi, the multi-talented banjo picker with The Infamous Stringdusters, has added yet another clever stop action video to his oeuvre. This one is plugging the band's next CD, Things That Fly, set for an April 20 release on Sugar Hill.

Bill Miller, host and producer of Bluegrass Gospel USA!, is pleased to announce several new affiliates for his weekly radio show. It is offered at no charge to commercial and non-commercial stations looking for non-denominational Gospel music programming. Miller has worked

Fred Robbins has spent many years chronicling bluegrass music, as a photographer and audio recordist starting in the 1960s, and more recently as a videographer as well. He has had articles published in Bluegrass Unlimited and is an active member

The new CD from Audie Blaylock and Redline, Cryin' Heart Blues, is set for a March 30 release on Rural Rhythm. We wrote last year during the IBMA convention about what an impressive showcase Audie and the boys delivered during their

We posted a sneak peek last week of the upcoming Doyle Lawson Gospel CD, Light On My Feet, Ready To Go. It was in the form of an audio sample from the first single - the title track, written and

The bluegrass world has been abuzz since the end of 2009 when it was announced that Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon, Keith Garrett and John Bowman had assembled a new band. Billed as The Boxcars, the band has as of

We have been made aware of the theft of a number of left-handed instruments that may show up within the bluegrass community. In what may have come as an unpleasant surprise to the thief, all of the instruments taken were left-handed