Author: John Lawless

Stillhouse Junkies photo © Renee Cornue Studio Whenever a Bluegrass Ramble showcase artist sets the World of Bluegrass convention on its ear, you can generally expect to see them rewarded with a label deal as a result. Sometimes it happens during

Mountain Fever Records has released a music video for Jr Williams, produced for his current single, Railroad Town Without A Train. It's a mid-tempo ballad, of the sort we used to get with regularity from Ronnie Bowman, written by Thomm Jutz

Songs From The Road Band have released a new single, You Left Your Lonely, another written by their bassist, Charles R Humphrey III, who has become one of the bluegrass world's more prolific songsmiths. These guys have a very interesting backstory

The Bluegrass, Old Time & County Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University will be hosting the first of what they hope will be annual String Band Summit in April of 2022. This is meant to be an academic conference,

The International Bluegrass Music Association has issued their followup report for the 2021 World of Bluegrass week, which ran from September 28 through October 2 in Raleigh, NC. This year's events, which included the World of Bluegrass Business Conference, IBMA

Mr. Bluegrass Manners has had an unusually busy fall, or maybe it's a normally busy fall, but because of the sharp contrast with the fall of 2020, it just seems unusual. In the course of relearning how to multi-task (while

Young mandolinist, composer, and vocalist Thomas Cassell has made quite an impression on the professional bluegrass world in the past few years. Since graduating from the bluegrass program at ETSU, he has performed with Billy Strings, The Bryan Sutton Band, Jim

For years banjo players have drooled over Béla Fleck's 1937 RB-75 conversion banjo, the one that he has played since 1982. It's a beautiful instrument, and helped cement his sound into every banjo picker's brain through his landmark 1988 release,

Engelhardt Music Group in Nashville has announced the signing of Riverbend, a traditional bluegrass band from St Louis who hew to the high lonesome sound that gave the music its early definition. The quintet has been playing together this past six

Brian Paul Swenk, a veteran of both the performance and artist representation sides of the bluegrass music world, has reopened his boutique shop, Rockwood Booking Agency. For many years Brian was the banjo player with Big Daddy Love, an alternative, jamgrass