Author: John Lawless

Hayes Mandolins, built by hand by luthier Rick Hayes, has used the launch of their first guitar model as the occasion to change company name to Rick Hayes Instruments. Rick has teamed up with fellow luthier Dann Ross to augment his

Charlie Poole and Loudon Wainwright III are two names you might not expect to find in close proximity. In fact, unless you were a follower of pop music in the 1970s or a serious student of old time string music

Bryan Sutton is on everyone's short list of top flatpick guitarists, something that has made him Nashville's #1 call for recording and short term tour work. This has given him a stable career and a fairly normal home life, by

When we last spoke with Cadillac Sky's Bryan Simpson, he was excited about the release of the band's new 4-song EP, Weary Angel. At that time, he mentioned that C-Sky was intending to start work on a new full length recording

Cherryholmes has recently updated their page on iLike, posting some photos from the Bonaroo festival and a couple of live audio tracks from their CD release party in Nashville during the fall of 2008. The tracks, Sumatra and Don't Believe, are

Larry Stephenson shared some sad news... I'm sorry to report that Bill Harrell passed away this afternoon at 4:10 p.m. at his home in Davidisonville, MD. Viewing with be Sunday evening (6/28) from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Chesapeake Christian Fellowship Church,

The Bristol Heralnd Courier has a piece in this morning's paper from Claire Galofaro with a few updates concerning the auto accident early Monday morning involving two members of Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. Dr. Ralph's grandson, Nathan Stanley, and

The Grascals will be among the guests on tonight's (6/24) edition of Tennessee Shines, broadcast live from Knoxville on WDVX. The monthly show originates from the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville before a live audience, hosted by Jim Lauderdale. Other guests on

Matt Glaser has been a fixture in the string music scene in the northeastern US since he was in his 20s. As a young man he recorded and performed with other acoustic string crazies like Tony Trischka, Marty Cutler and Andy

This week's edition of Track-By-Track with Kyle Cantrell will feature Alecia Nugent and her superb new CD, Hillbilly Goddess. She will discuss each track with Kyle as they play through the entire album. The show can be heard on Sirius-XM, and