Author: John Lawless

Doyle Lawson has made another set of changes to the Quicksilver lineup. Dale Perry will come on board to play banjo and sing bass, and Jason Leek will play bass and sing tenor. The new band will take the stage

Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 - November 21, 2009 As already reported, banjo stylist Allen Shelton passed away on 21 November while in the Centennial Medical Center, Nashville. He

Banjo CDs are coming out of the woodwork, it seems. Just in the past few weeks, we have received stellar releases from Dan Menzone, Jessie Baker and Chris Warner. Each is distinctive in its own way, and all should have

Erik Igelström, mandolinist with G2, and his wife Hanna, are celebrating the birth of their second son. "On Thursday 26th of November 1:05 p.m. (local Swedish time), we had our second son at Södersjukhuset in Stockholm. We actually haven't decided

Thomas Wywrot is about to release a self-produced solo project, Every Time I Walk This Road. The album has a modern, in-your-face bluegrass sound with Wywrot's banjo and guitar prominent in the mix. A Canadian by birth, he grew up in

The Charlie Daniels Christmas TV special, A Twin Pines Christmas, will debut this Thursday (12/3) on GAC. Charlie's guests include The Grascals, Dan Tyminski, Evelyn and Suzanne Cox, Aaron Tippin and Kathy Mattea. They will perform music from his latest CD,

The Collector's Weekly has a lengthy interview with Lowell Levinger where they discuss his extensive collection of vintage acoustic instruments. Levinger is better known to his followers as Banana, the nom de guerre he adopted as a founding member of

Jayme Stone picked up another trophy last Saturday (11/21) at the Canadian Folk Music Awards in Ottawa to add to his two previous Juno Awards. Not bad for a banjo player. He won for World Group of the Year for Africa

Randy Kohrs is the subject of a new video shot by Nashville singer, songwriter and filmmaker Marcel Chagnon, who goes simply by Marcel. The video captures a stark, solo performance of the song Shallow Grave from Randy's Old Photograph CD. This

Nancy Cardwell, Special Projects Director for IBMA, is starting her Thanksgiving holiday on a sour note. Her 1966 D-35 Martin guitar was stolen on Monday (11/23) from her home in Nashville (Donelson area) while she was at work. She offered this