Author: John Lawless

Nick Chandler & Delivered have announced a new member of the band, with Jamie Sparks coming on board to play banjo. Bluegrass fans will remember Jamie from his time with The Bluegrass Brothers, standing out as one of the few left-handed

Mountain Home Music has a new single for Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, taken from their current album, Make Each Second Last. If we can take the past as prologue, it is destined for the #1 spot on our

Here's some of the best news of the summer so far. After undergoing several weeks of radiation and chemotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer, Danny Paisley will be back on stage this weekend! He received a diagnosis back in mid-May, and his doctors told

Over the past eight years, Russ Carson has risen to considerable prominence in the banjo world since taking the job with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. On top of burning up the five on stage with Ricky, Russ has developed

Mountain Home Music has a new single today for Fireside Collective, from their album Across The Divide, due to hit tomorrow. For this last pre-release single, they have chosen a nice, mid-tempo number written by guitarist Joe Cicero called Running Wild

This morning the International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the nominees for their 2022 Industry and Momentum Awards. Both these nominees and the winners are chosen by select committees of IBMA members chosen for this purpose. The IBMA Industry Awards are given

It seems that rarely a few months go by that we don't come upon some new group of extremely talented young bluegrass artists doing something interesting in our music. For August, we have The Mountain Grass Unit, a three piece band

The Crooked Road, the Commonwealth of Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, has announced that bluegrass singer and songwriter Johnny Williams will serve as their 2022-2023 Artist In Residence. Johnny has been a staple in the southwestern Virginia traditional music scene for more

Tyler Mullins has been all about bluegrass music pert near his whole life. At age 11, he started in on the banjo on an instrument his grandmother gave him for Christmas, and has never looked back. Growing up in Kentucky, Tyler's

Gabby Cameron, recipient of the Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award for 2022 from the IBMA Foundation The IBMA Foundation, the philanthropic and educational arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced today the recipients of their various college scholarships, many of