Author: John Lawless

Mo Pitney - photo © Jeremy Coward Mo Pitney? Isn't he a country guy? Well... yes, and yes. But he was a bluegrass guy first, or we should say, his love for bluegrass and traditional country developed simultaneously when he was a boy.

Jeremy Rilko has been involved on the bluegrass scene for a good many years. Starting out in Michigan where he grew up, and living now near Asheville, NC, Rilko has made bluegrass a big part of his life. His brother,

The venerable MerleFest, held in April each year in Wilkesboro, NC, is set to celebrate two meaningful anniversaries at the 2023 festival. First off, this will be the 35th annual MerleFest, and this year marks what would have been the

This February the Pisgah Banjo Company is again holding a raffle for a very special custom banjo to benefit the IBMA Foundation's Arnold Shultz Fund in honor of Black History Month. The banjo is an open back model made from highly-figured

The Infamous Stringdusters have another concept album on tap, a second tribute to the founders of bluegrass music. Following an earlier appreciation for Bill Monroe in 2021, this time it's A Tribute To Flatt & Scruggs, a six song EP

Bell Buckle Records has a new single for Texas bluegrass singer and songwriter, Bobby Giles, and his band, Texas Gales. It's a new gospel number he wrote called Glory Train, which he based on the message found in second Corithians, verses

North Carolina bluegrass singer and fiddler Carley Arrowood is back with a tease from her upcoming second album with Mountain Home Music. This first single is a swift moving grasser called Deeper in Love, a positive look at romance when you

Ed Leonard, John Meador, and Joe Dan Cornett with Billy Blue Publishing John Meador, tenor vocalist and guitarist, and one of several talented songwriters with Authentic Unlimited, has been announced as the newest signee with Billy Blue Publishing. The company is

Speaking of the SPBGMA International Band Championship, the 2022 winners, Retro 78, have signed a record deal and released their first single after taking Nashville by storm last year. The group consists of six friends from across the Carolinas who got

When the 2023 SPBGMA International Band Championship was decided last month in Nashville, the The Waddington Brothers, from southwest North Dakota, were declared the winners. Over multiple rounds, they came out on top out of 15 competing groups during the