Author: John Lawless

Alison Krauss & Union Station got started on their next studio recording this past weekend, tracking at Sound Emporium in Nashville. Steve Huber visited the studio on Monday (8/3) to tweak a couple of banjos for Ron Block, and sent us

Sarah Jarosz will be among the thousands of college freshmen descending onto the city of Boston next month. Long regarded as one of the biggest college towns in the US, Boston is the home of The New England Conservatory, where

Sam Bush has a couple of new YouTube videos. The first finds the camera behind the scenes at the photo shoot for Sam's upcoming Sugar Hill CD, Circles Around Me, due on October 20. In an interview we did with Sam

The National Association of Broadcasters has announced today (8/3) that WAMU's Bluegrass Country is the winner of their 2009 HD Radio Multicast Award. The award will be presented during the NAB Radio Show in Philadelphia on September 25, leaving the WAMU

Just this past week, two major US banjo manufacturers have announced the availability of banjo hardware made to vintage specifications. Both Huber Banjos and American Made Banjo Co. are now producing parts for sale to banjo builders - both professional and

Dale Ann Bradley graces the cover of the latest edition of Bluegrass Unlimited. The August 2009 issue also includes a lengthy article about Bradley by Larry Nager, which chronicles her career in bluegrass from her early days with the New Coon

CMT is reporting that derogatory remarks about Tim McGraw have been removed from the final copies of the Ralph Stanley autobiography due for release this fall. CMT.com News ran a story last week detailing these remarks, which was removed from the

Carrie Hassler and her fine young band have been touring in France this past week, and are blogging about their Gallic adventures online. They have already posted a bunch of photos and several videos with more to come before they

Mandolin legend Herschel Sizemore may be retired from active touring, but he hasn't stopped writing and the recording the sort of clever instrumentals that have so endeared him to the mandolin world. His latest CD, B-Natural, has just been released. It's

With August 1 on the horizon, the airwaves are once again inundated with back to school advertisements. For recently-graduated high schoolers, plans for college are well underway, fraught with that bittersweet mix of anticipation and uncertainty. Next week we'll have stories