Author: John Lawless

From a small seed the Mighty Poplar grows. That's the name chosen for the latest modern bluegrass supergroup to emerge on the scene. Mighty Poplar consists of members from four of the top draws on the contemporary acoustic music scene. Banjoist

Pinecastle Records has released a pair of singles from their current album with Tim Graves & The Farm Hands, Bluegrass DNA. Tim has had several strong versions of this group over the years, but this edition is quite special. Don Wayne

Mountain Home Music Company has announced the imminent digital re-release of their 1998 album for the King of Bluegrass Soul, Larry Sparks, his all-gospel project, New Highway. This edition of The Lonesome Ramblers included Scott Napier on mandolin, Jim Britton on

Tim Raybon is another top bluegrass artist with a fresh single for the new year, another of his sparkling songs with a modern day Osborne Brothers feel. Can't Get Away From This Broken Heart is Tim's latest with Pinecastle Records, one

Mile Twelve has produced a music video just ahead of the release of their upcoming album, Close Enough To Hear, due later this week. It will be their first recorded effort since bringing new members Ella Jordan on fiddle and

The good folks at The Caverns in Grundy, TN, filming site for the popular The Caverns Sessions program on PBS and home of the CaveFest jamgrass event launched last fall, have announced a new festival for the Fourth of July

Tonight, at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, the winners of the National Bluegrass Awards from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America are being announced during a live gala presentation. And the winners are: Bluegrass Promoter Of

Iowa's Lori King & Junction 63 have a new single set to hit next week, the third from their upcoming EP, Straight from the Heartland. This time it's one from Becky Buller and Bill Whyte called Mercy of a Train, with

Darren Nicholson is starting out his post-Balsam Range career in style with a strong new single, one he wrote with Charles Humphrey III of Songs From The Road Band, called Arkansas Without You. This song exemplifies everything that is good about

Becky Buller has announced the permanent addition of Jacob Groopman to her touring group on guitar. A Virginia native, Jacob has played music all over the US. He studied in college at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, then moved west to