Author: John Lawless

Great news for Alabama grassers! The Talladega Bluegrass & Fingerstyle Guitar Festival will launch this summer in Lincoln, AL, with a full line up for fans of both genres. Hosted by Edgar Loudermilk Music Productions at the Talladega Pit Stop RV

Dark Shadow Recordings has released a second single from their upcoming album for Rick Faris, Uncommon Sky, expected in June. It's a new song he's written called Too Lonely, Way Too Long, which is about as lonely as anyone can ever

Newtime Stringband, which is essentially old time and bluegrass musician Chris Mullins and whomever he chooses to collaborate with, has a new single on offer from the next Newtime album. It's an instrumental tune he has written called Pay Attention. Chris

RBR Entertainment has a new single from Ben James this month, co-written by his label mate Billy Droze. Ben came to wide attention as a member of the final edition of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, with his high tenor singing and

This past Friday, April 20, Frank Solivan and Jillian Lea were married in a spontaneous ceremony officiated by David McLaughlin at his bed and breakfast in Winchester, VA. Frank tells us that the couple had been discussing marriage for some time,

Brian Smith, Brooke Aldridge, Darin Aldridge, and Jerry Salley at the 2023 AGM Awards Darin & Brooke Aldridge were honored to accept the Bluegrass Artist of the Year Award on April 18 at the 22nd Absolutely Gospel Awards in a rare

Gallagher Guitar Company has announced two new models designed in collaboration with Josh Rinkel of The Po' Ramblin' Boys. Called the Josh Rinkel Standard and the Josh Rinkel Signature, these are both mahogany guitars with an Adirondack spruce top from eastern

8 Track Entertainment has released the first taste of their upcoming album from Dan Tyminski, God Fearing Heathen, with a single that reprises the massive global hit he had in 2013 with Swedish DJ Avicii, Hey Brother. The original was a

Tina Adair has been on most people's list of top bluegrass singers going on more than 25 years now. Starting out as a teenager, she wowed audiences with her family band, and then as a solo artist, before serving as

Last Friday, April 14, bluegrass singer, songwriter, and bandleader Becky Buller was inducted into the 2023 class of the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame. The Hall, located in New Ulm, MN, only about 35 miles from Buller's hometown of St