Author: John Lawless

On May 19, Rodney Dillard, the lone surviving original member of The Dillards, who introduced bluegrass music, Ozark style, to America on television in the 1960s as the Darling family on The Andy Griffith Show, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate

Mandolinist Mark Stoffel is the focus of the latest single released by Mountain Home Music. The German-born musician has been a member of Chris Jones & The Night Drivers this past 16 years, and is not only a gifted and agile

Following a three year hiatus, the Mountain City Fiddlers' Convention is returning to east Tennessee, with local boy made good Kody Norris serving as host. The 2023 convention is scheduled for Labor Day Weekend, September 2, and will run all

Mountain Fever Records has a new single this weekend for Nashville banjo phenom, Cory Walker. It's a real old timer written by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart called Tried To Ruin My Name, which Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper recorded

Ryan Paisley, son of bluegrass icon Danny Paisley, and mandolinist in his dad's band, The Southern Grass, has just been appointed as Vice Mayor for the town where he lives, Clayton, DE. That's right, the 23 year old Ryan, the third

The International Bluegrass Music Association has officially launched its search for a new Executive Director in the wake of their most recent ED, Pat Morris, taking his leave earlier this year to deal with a family health issue. Prior director

The latest single from Curtis Vestal combines two genres of gospel music that we rarely see in conjunction, bluegrass gospel and black gospel. But it works, on every level. I Want To Do Right is a rollicking grasser that Curtis wrote,

Is there anyone in bluegrass who tells a better story than Larry Cordle? For the past 40 years he has been writing and singing some of the most memorable songs to come out of Nashville, and they have brought him

The Seldom Scene has revealed a new band logo, one that recalls the great John Duffey, who helped found the group in 1971, and played mandolin and sang until his passing in 1996. John had a special fondness for his whiskey

Bonfire Music Group is back with a new single for the South Carolina duo,  Andrew Crawford & Brandi Colt. Typically they record music they have written, but this time they go with a grassified country rock number, All I See Is You, recorded