Author: John Lawless

Dark Shadow Recording has a music video for Becky Buller's current single, a duet with Jim Lauderdale on the Reno & Smiley classic, Wall Around Your Heart. Buller said last month that she first heard this heartbreak song from the Bluegrass

Rhonda Vincent at the 2023 CBA Father's Day Festival - photo © Alan M Bond One of the longest running and most influential festivals out west is the annual California Bluegrass Association's Father's Day Festival, held this past 48 years in

Unless you have a magical gift that allows you to completely ignore popular culture in the English-speaking world, you are probably aware of English singer and actor Harry Styles, who has been a pop sensation this past few years since

The International Bluegrass Music Association is teaming up with Martin Guitar and online guitar instructor Marcel Ardans to bring a new guitar picking contest to this year's World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC. Entitled Picking for the Prize, the competition will

North Carolina banjo man Andy Lowe has a new single with Mountain Fever Records, a new version of the ancient murder ballad, Barbry Allen. Lowe spares us the more than a dozen verses that the song has had over the past

Small Fry Fiddle Winner Sawyer Dietrich at the 2023 Twin Lakes National Fiddler Championship The 2023 Twin Lakes National Fiddler Championship was held on July 15 on the courthouse square in Leitchfield, located in Grayson County, Kentucky. The event is held

Jerry Salley, Rick Lang, and Joe Dan Cornett Billy Blue Publishing in Nashville, a division of Daywind Music Group and closely aligned with Billy Blue Records, is continuing its aggressive addition of top bluegrass songwriters to their roster with the signing

Todd Taylor, everyone's favorite rock 'n' roll banjo player, has a new single and video, his take on the monster Mason Williams hit from 1968, Classical Gas. Though he's equally adept at picking bluegrass style, which is how he learned as

South Korean bluegrass group Country GongBang has been selected to receive the International Bluegrass Music Association's 2023 International Band Performance Grant. This annual award is given to an especially promising act from outside the United States to help assist with

Dark Shadow Recording has a new single for Chicago's Henhouse Prowlers, the third from their upcoming debut project with the label. It's a new song, written by Prowlers bassist Jon Goldfine with Rick Lang. An old time country two-step, Subscription To