Author: John Lawless

Pinecastle Records has a new video this week for Missouri family band Lindley Creek, and their uplifting current single, Spring Is In The Air Again. Perfect for the fresh blooms and warm breezes wafting about much of the US this time

County Sales, the venerable mail order retail music outlet located in Floyd, VA, has announced that they will be closing for good on April 30. Since 1965, County Sales has offered recorded bluegrass and old time music, starting primarily on vinyl

Hillary Klug, also known as the Dancing Fiddler, has been quietly making a name for herself over the past several years online. By quietly, I mean outside the traditional channels for achieving notoriety in music, as the volume of her

Rebel Records has released a new music video for The Kody Norris Show, who have rocketed to the top of the bluegrass world this past two years on the strength of their original songs, hard core bluegrass recordings, and energetic

Styx Hicks with his good buddy, Marty Raybon, holding a classic Styx t-shirt One of the most ultimately rewarding facets of the bluegrass community is the many wonderful people you meet attending shows and festivals. How many times have you returned

Skyline Records has announced the signing of young Boston-based band, The Ruta Beggars. The band originally came together while they were all students at the Berklee College of Music in 2018. Winning the band competition the following year at the Thomas

For most of our readers, Cooper Marona may not yet be a familiar name. A new bluegrass artist, he is a native North Carolinian and a recent graduate of the bluegrass music program at ETSU. Cooper has released his first recorded

A popular bluegrass festival, honoring a special member of the community, is set to return this year to central Illinois. The Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Festival had its debut run in May of 2013 in Arcola, IL, named in honor of

New music today from The Travelin' McCourys! It's a new song written by Ronnie McCoury, Del McCoury, and Pat McLaughlin called Runaway Train, and it's played and sung with precisely the speed and abandon that the title suggests. Ronnie McCoury takes

Bourgeois Guitars in Lewiston, ME has announced two new models in their Touchstone series of more budget friendly guitars. These are guitars designed by Bourgeois, with tops hand-voiced and braced by their luthiers in Maine, and then carefully vacuum-sealed and