Author: John Lawless

For their second single from Bluegrass Sings Paxton, Mountain Home Music's upcoming tribute album to the legendary folk singer and songwriter, Tom Paxton, Tim O'Brien is up with You Took Me In. Instead of reaching back into Paxton's deep catalog of

Vince Gill grasses up the Opry (5/17/24) - photo © Chris Hollo for the Grand Ole Opry Vince Gill had a previously scheduled Opry set last Friday evening, and he decided to dedicate it in the memory of the late banjo

The peripatetic fiddle tune, Arkansas Traveler, must be among the most enduring and satisfying numbers to emerge from the fiddle traditions of the old south. Its actual origin is uncertain, though some traditional music historians place it with Sandford C.

When Baltimore singer/songwriter Cris Jacobs was ready to record his latest project, One of These Days, he brought on Jerry Douglas to produce, and booked The Infamous Stringdusters as his studio band. Not really a bluegrass artist, Cris has regularly

The Ole Smoky Distillery in Gatlinburg, TN, is offering a series of special bluegrass shows over this spring and summer. These are in addition to the regular, daily performances that take place there as matter of course. Almost since they launched

Fast rising young fiddler and vocalist Carson Peters is up next on the second single, Long Twin Silver Line, from Lonesome Day Records' upcoming bluegrass tribute album of Bob Seger's music. The project is the brainchild of producer Randall Deaton, who

The popular Big Al & Sandy Radio Show, which broadcasts weekly from the Birthplace of Country Music, WBCM Radio Bristol 100.1 FM in Bristol, VA, has been picked up for syndication by CMR Nashville, Europe's longest-running country music station, located

The Grand Ole Opry has invited the Amanda Cook Band to make their Opry debut July 7. Cook, a Florida singer now living in southwestern Virginia, says that they are all well beyond psyched. "We're absolutely thrilled about our upcoming Opry Debut—it's

Jack McKeon is a singer and songwriter from upstate New York, now relocated in Nashville, who admits that his raising in Chatham is a long way from the center of the bluegrass and roots music world where he now resides.

Banjo NewsLetter, the print magazine dedicated to three finger and clawhammer banjo that was published from 1973 to 2021, has announced a move of their business office. They are not resuming publication, but the magazine and its rich archive of