Author: John Lawless

The Dale Ann Bradley Band has signed with Nashville-based Compass Records, a well respected independent label owned by progressive banjo player Alison Brown. With over 200 titles in release, Compass has been more focused on folk, celtic, and new acoustic

Bluegrass favorites, Cherryholmes, are featured guests on the Billy Graham Special being aired throughout this week (March 11-19), with both dates and times varying widely from market to market. They perform some of the music that has swept this family

The March/April issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles, a bi-monthly newsprint publication based in Kentucky, features a cover story on The Grascals. We heard recently from BMP editor and publisher, Kevin Kerfoot, who passed along a few details about the Grascals

Kentucky Bluebird is the title of a new film project about to get underway, based on the life and frustratingly brief career of bluegrass/country star Keith Whitley. Keith made his presence felt in bluegrass from the early 1970s, when he

B???la Fleck & The Flecktones launch the second leg of their 2006 Tour today (3/15), in support of their newest Columbia release, The Hidden Land. They start out with two shows in Lexington, KY and then continue on a swing

We had posted earlier this month about the release of Alecia Nugent's new CD, A Little Girl... A Big Four Lane, on Rounder, and also featured an interview with Alecia on The GrassCast (our weekly audio podcast). At that time, we

The USA Songwriting Competition is now accepting entries for the 2006 prize awards, with a deadline for submissions of May 31. Prizes of cash and merchandise are awarded, both in 15 style categories, and for the top three songs overall. There

The upcoming CD release from The John Cowan Band, New Tattoo, is currently being pressed with a street date of June 13 anticipated at this point. The new project was produced by Jay Joyce and will be jointly released on

Heartache & Hope is the title of the latest release from Pine Mountain Railroad, which will be officially released March 15 on the TrackTones Records label. The new CD was produced by Missy Raines, and recorded in Nashville by Ben

The Earl Brothers are proud to draw attention to the fact that their CD, Whiskey, Women and Death, has made it onto CDBaby.com's list of top selling country music CDs. Their latest CD of all original material, Trouble To Blame (which