Author: John Lawless

We posted last week with the happy news that John and Vickie Chapman were celebrating the birth of their daughter, Kylie, tempered with the sadder news that she was being treated for complications from Meconium Aspiration. We now hear that Kylie

Two 24/7 online bluegrass channels offer up live interviews today (4/4) that may be of interest. Wayne Taylor will be stopping by for a chat with Katy Daley at 9:00 a.m. on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. Taylor spent 20 years performing in

Sugar Hill Records is running a contest on their web site to allow 2 bluegrass fans to attend the Grey Fox festival in July. The contest is to help get the word out about the upcoming release from The Gibson

Yeah, yeah...  I know - it's not bluegrass. But a lot of readers here on Bluegrass Today follow Alison Krauss' music wherever it may take her. Sales of her new CD with Robert Plant, Raising Sand, have made it plain that

Long-time students of bluegrass instruments will recall with fondness the name Oak Publications, a division of Music Sales that released some fine instructional manuals for banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and bass starting in the 1970s. While the brand has remained

On today's (4/3) edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX, Abigail Washburn & Sparrow Quartet featuring B?©la Fleck will perform. The show airs at noon (EDT) from the Knoxville, TN studios of WDVX before a live audience, ahead of their

Here's a brief update to our post from last week about Gibson's new limited edition Earl Scruggs Flint Hill Special banjo model. In our previous post, we mentioned that no pricing information was found on the Gibson site, and that our

Kathy Mattea will be live on WAMU's Bluegrass Country this morning (4/2) at 11:00 a.m. with Katy Daley and Lee Michael Demsey to talk about her latest CD, Coal. The new release, produced by Marty Stuart, is as the title

The market giveth, and the market taketh away... We commented last week on somber news about CD sales at the wholesale level, mentioning the recent demise of long-time bluegrass and old time wholesale distributor, The Record Depot. Their closing has had

We received an interesting correspondence last night from Ashby Frank, mandolinist with Special Consensus. He had just gotten a call from Rhonda Vincent asking if he might be able to fill her spot on stage this week, as she is at