Author: John Lawless

West Virginia author B. L. Dotson-Lewis has published her third book on the people and culture of the Appalachian region. The Sunny Side of Appalachia: Bluegrass from the Grassroots traces the early days of the music through first person

Throw Down Your Heart, the documentary film on Béla Fleck's journey of discovery to Africa to explore the banjo's roots, is set to screen on Thursday (10/9) at the Tucson Film & Music Festival. The film was directed by Béla's brother,

Steep Canyon Rangers will be doing two shows this month with legendary bluegrass pioneer Curly Seckler. Seckler was the mandolinist and tenor singer with Flatt & Scruggs during their hey day in the 1950s and early '60s, and later became a

Last week, Brance posted a few photos of Mountain Heart performing with Tony Rice at the Keith Case suite on Wednesday of IBMA week. They also did a main stage show during Fan Fest, and fiddler Jim Van Cleve sent along

Another busy IBMA has come and gone. We will have a few more World Of Bluegrass posts on Bluegrass Today before this week is out, including a number of videos. Brance is till putting the finishing touches on our Red Carpet

Bluegrass fans have become accustomed to seeing Dan Tyminski's name on the music charts since he formed his own band and released a solo CD, Wheels, earlier this year. Dan's friends know that he only plays music to support his golf

Each year when the IBMA Awards nominations are announced, there are a couple of glaring absences in the roll call. For 2008, neither Cherryholmes nor any members of Punch Brothers were nominated, and Punch received only a single nomination, for

A new, weekly bluegrass radio show is set to launch this coming Sunday (10/5) in southwestern Virginia. FiddleFest Radio will air each Sunday afternoon on The Bull, FM 106.1 from Roanoke, VA from 5:00-7:00 p.m., simulcast live online via

A crew from ABC's Good Morning America was at IBMA this week to talk to Eddie Adcock about his recent deep brain surgery at Vanderbilt here in Nashville. The segment is scheduled to run on Friday morning (10/3) during the show's

Album Of The Year - Award for an outstanding recorded performance by an artist or artists, first commercially released during the specified time period (Award to artist(s), producer, and label). The Album Of The Year for 2008 is: Album Title links to audio Artist(s) links