Author: John Lawless

OK... silly song time here on Bluegrass Today. Miami-based singer/songwriter Bill Zucker wrote a song about a topic much in the news these days, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), otherwise described as the "700 billion dollar bailout plan" passed last

Here are a couple more tidbits from the recently concluded NAMM show in Anahiem, CA. Paige Capo introduced a revised design for their popular capo, which they say makes it faster and easier to use. They make capos for banjo, guitar

Compass Records has announced that Inside Out, the new CD from Missy Raines & The New Hip, will be released on February 10. The group features Raines on bass and vocals, Ethan Ballinger on mandolin, Michael Witcher on resonator guitar/vocals, and

I caught up with Mark Freeman of Rebel Records recently, and he shared some information about their release schedule for 2009. We mentioned last week that they would have a new Lost and Found CD in March, and Mark tells us

Jordan Tice is a young guitarist who is releasing a third CD under his name at only 21 years of age. Long Story, recently released on Patuxent Music, features 10 original instrumental compositions performed by a group of stellar progressive string

John Santa, whose book, Bluegrass Is My Second Language, has been popular with many of our readers, is involved in a special event later this month that has grown into something many Bluegrass Blog regulars may want to support. For the

When we ran our IBMA video interview with Cherryholmes in October, they mentioned that a country remix of one of the songs from their current CD would be in the offing early in '09. And so it has come to pass... Skaggs

The Pick One concert tour we told you about in December has largely come and gone, taking a star-studded bluegrass package show to Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia in early January. Instead of presenting bands that perform together normally, artists

Walk This Mountain Down from Donna Ulisse is among the several new bluegrass CDs due for release tomorrow (1/20). After a shot with a major label country release in 1991 failed to ignite, Donna has focused on songwriting, often with husband

Darren Beachley has announced that he will be leaving Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at the end of this month. Here is his statement about the move... "I will be leaving the group at the end of January. It was a life long