Author: John Lawless

Echo Valley, the bluegrass band made up of the six Anderson siblings from Pennsylvania, has released a music video for their latest single, a grassed up arrangement of Sweet Child O' Mine. The song was a worldwide hit for rockers

Colorado old time artist Natalie Spears has released a live performance video for one of the tracks on her upcoming Hymn of Wild Things project, due next month. Recently Natalie had been seen touring in a duo with fiddler Lizzy Plotkin,

Lil Smokies at the 2024 Tico Time Bluegrass Festival The good folks with the Tico Time Bluegrass Festival in Colorado have shared a selection of photos from their 2024 event, held along the Animas River just outside of Durango in mid-May.

Jason Broyles is a singer and songwriter living in Nashville, trying his hand at a variety of musical genres, recently including rock 'n' roll and alt-country. Originally from Oklahoma, where he was immersed in gospel music as a child, Jason

South Carolina bluegrass singer/songwriter Katelyn Ingardia, who made her name as the lead vocalist and primary songwriter for Backline, has a new single to share. As the sole founding member remaining in the group, one supposes that it's pretty much

No matter what sort of music you might prefer, nothing beats the pairing of a great song and a top notch singer. It's certainly true in the wold of bluegrass, and we have a fine example here in Amanda Cook's

Nashville's Off The Rails has a second single on offer this month, another original song with a spirited newgrass vibe, without straying too far from the contemporary bluegrass mainstream. Newly formed, the band consists of Cory Chubb on guitar and lead

High Road, the all-female gospel group with heavy bluegrass overtones, has a new single this week, taken from their upcoming Straight From The Heart project, produced by Ben Isaacs, which releases on Friday. Based primarily around the songs and singing of

The IBMA Foundation has announced that Steven Ware from Waco, TX is the winner of their 2024 Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle, which raised $20,890 to benefit the educational and philanthropic work of the Foundation, and their overall efforts to

Teen mandolin prodigy Wyatt Ellis has released a music video for his current single, Blue Smoke, that provides a tour diary of his recent run with Marty Stuart, for whom the song was written. Marty also played on the single