Author: John Lawless

After two plus decades in Myrtle Beach, SC, the Premier Bluegrass Weekend at the Ocean Lakes Family Campground is coming to an end. The 25th annual event this August 25-26 has been announced as the final one. Ocean Lakes had been

With their previous single, The Price of Falling, currently moving up our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart for the second time, Mountain Home Music has released another from Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, Blow Whistle. In a break from form,

David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label has just released a truly historic recording of Tony and Wyatt Rice in their first duo performance in 1996. Entitled Tony & Wyatt Rice Together!, it captures these two brilliant flatpicking brothers from two consecutive

Bluegrass singer/songwriter Bruce Winges has a new single released today, set in the region he was born, called Eastern Kentucky. Even as a native Kentuckian, Bruce really got his taste for bluegrass music when he took his first position as

Nothing warms the heart of a bluegrass guitarist like finding a new luthier building vintage reproductions in a small shop setting. As the prices of the actual prewar Martin dreadnoughts keeps going up, most of us need to be looking

Rock Hearts continues to carry the flag for New England bluegrass with their latest single for 615 Hideaway Records, The Last Log Drive. Sam Tidwell, father of Rock Hearts mandolinist Billy Thibodeau, wrote the song as a protest against the modern

For the first single from their upcoming Grass Roots album with Compass Records, Leftover Salmon has chosen their arrangement of Bob Dylan's Simple Twist of Fate. The whole album is dedicated to the songs that the band jammed on during the

Gold Tone Music Group in Florida has introduced a new version of their top line OB-250 banjo, a replica of the classic RB-250s from the early 1960s, which they call the OB-2 Bow Tie. It is part of their Mastertone

ETSU Bluegrass director Dan Boner with James Davidson from Ghana and his new guitar Last week, the Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University were able to do a kindness for one of their students, James

Next To Nothing is the latest single from Mountain Fever Records for Hammertowne, an eastern Kentucky group known for their quality material. Band leader David Carroll, who plays guitar, sings lead, and is the group's primary songwriter, says that this one