Author: John Lawless

Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike have plans to release an historic album this spring - a museum piece, even! OK... that may be laying it on a bit think, but their next CD, Blame It On the Bluegrass, is an interesting

Over this past weekend, WAMU's Bluegrass Country ran the first 3 hours of the lengthy interviews they are conducting with Dudley Connell.He spoke in depth with Katy Daley and Lee Michael Dempsey about having grown up in the DC bluegrass

The bluegrass and acoustic guitar world has been buzzing this past two years, awaiting the publication of Still Inside - The Tony Rice Story. This authorized biography of the legendary guitarist and vocalist, written by Tim Stafford and Caroline Wright, has

The Deering Banjo Company has introduced acoustic/electric versions for two of their most popular models. Both their wildly successful beginner banjo, the Goodtime, and the Sierra, their lowest cost pro model, are now available outfitted with a Kavanjo banjo pickup installed.

AcuTab Publications has announced March 16 as the release date for their newest instructional DVD, Secrets Songs & Tunes by Sierra Hull. It offers four hours of insight and instruction from this young mandolin prodigy on two DVDs, with a

We have posted several times recently about the next CD from Cadillac Sky, and the path it has taken along the way. They have always fluttered along the fringes of multiple musical formats - so much so that categorizing their sound

Rhonda Vincent will be releasing her next album with a new partner. No... not that! She and husband Herb Sandker are still connected at the hip, and he continues to represent and manage her career through Upper Managemnet. The new partner

The 3rd Sugar Hill album from The Infamous Stringdusters, Things That Fly, won't be released until April 20, but we have a preview to offer here on Bluegrass Today today. There are high expectations for this project, both for their collaboration

Mel Bay Publications has a pair of book/CD combos that should be of interest to students of the bluegrass music - guitarists and mandolinists in particular. Flatpicking Up The Neck, from Jeff Troxel, is designed to assist beginning and intermediate guitar

OK...  We don't expect to hear him singing and Flatt & Scruggs on the program, but Aaron Kelly, one of the 24 finalists on American Idol has some bluegrass in his background. The 16 year old from Pennsylvania is among