Author: John Lawless

Tom Timberlake, a founding member of The Kevin Prater Band, has died following a brief battle with cancer at 75 years of age. He passed on January 2, at the Southern Ohio Medical Center Hospice Center in Portsmouth, Ohio. Timberlake played

The IBMA Foundation has just announced a new education benefit in their ongoing mission to foster the growth of bluegrass music. They are a non-profit organization that offers grants to agencies that work for bluegrass education, and manage a number of

Huckleberry Records, an affiliated label with Turnberry Records in Nashville, has announced the signing of Brad Kaylor & Mineral Bluff Revue. Their recorded debut, a song titled My Last Name, is slated for release on March 13. Mineral Bluff Revue is

Bluegrass singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Ashley Lewis, who is also our Marketing Manager here at Bluegrass Today, has released an ebook resource for unsigned artists titled The Indie Release Roadmap. Not only is Lewis an experienced independent artist herself, having released

Red Camel Collective has been invited to make their Grand Ole Opry debut on February 27. Needless to say, the band is very excited about this major career milestone. This group, led by guitar, vocalist, and songwriter Heather Berry Mabe, also

Becky Buller with her 2025 Distinguished Alumna in the Arts Award, and with the ETSU Pride Band When the East Tennessee State University National Alumni Association held their annual Evening of Distinction and ETSU PRIDE on November 14, Becky Buller received

It's always a gutsy move for a singer to cover a George Jones song, but that hasn't deterred Water Tower's Kenny Feinstein, who has dialed up a bluegrass version of the Possum's 1976 hit, Her Name Is. The song was a

Unreal Bluegrass, the long-running syndicated radio program hosted by Steve Martin, the banjo-playing Kentucky lawyer, not the banjo-playing California comedian and actor, has announced the end of its 13-year broadcast run. Martin tells us that his great friend and audio editor,

South Carolina's Retro 78 is starting the new year with a new single, another written by their lead singer, Clint Groves. It's one called Your Love, a song about a lasting romance which the band describes as follows. "This song reflects the

Do you love bluegrass music? And crossword puzzles? We have just the thing for you. Bluegrass Today has launched a weekly crossword puzzle, with all the clues based on some aspect of bluegrass music. Some will have a particular theme to