Author: John Lawless

Vince Gill is among the batch of pop, rock and country stars to be "picked on" by the folks at CMH Records. Their growing library of titles in this Pickin' On series is bearing down on 200 releases, each containing

Both Brance and I had the good fortune to attend the Pickin' At The Paramount show this past Sunday, January 15, an which we had previously mentioned here. The concerts were held at the historic Paramount Theater on State Street

We made mention last month of a new bluegrass radio show being launched on WTBU, Boston University radio. The show is entitled Over Yonder, and will be hosted by a pair of BU students, Carly Nix and Hilary Rollwagen. Carly

Lonesome Day Records is offering new subscribers to their monthly newsletter a chance to win a free CD from the Lonesome Day catalog. For a limited time, each new subscriber to this email newsletter will be entered in a monthly

The Earl Brothers is a California-based acoustic quartet who perform original music in a primitive bluegrass, or Stanley-influenced mountain style. The sound is intentionally sparse and a bit on the lonesome side, and sure to appeal to fans of the

Wildfire's Darrell Webb and his wife Amanda celebrated the birth of their first child, Norah Katherine Webb, earlier this week. Congratulations to the new family!

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will be featured on tonight's Grand Ole Opry Live program on GAC TV. The show features an hour of live music from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN each week from 8:00-9:00 p.m.

We had posted earlier about LoarFest West, a mandolin symposium held in conjunction with the SuperGrass festival in Bakersfield, CA the first weekend in February. The event is designed as a meeting of owners, collectors and aficionados of the highly

The US tour in support of the upcoming B???la Fleck & The Flecktones CD, The Hidden Land, starts today in the band's home base of Nashville, TN. The first two shows will be performances with The Nashville Symphony on Friday

We posted last week about an article in The Boston Globe on Berklee College Of Music's embrace of traditional string instruments as a principal for study at the school. We are very pleased to note that this Globe article has been