Author: John Lawless

For his latest Mountain Home Music single, veteran Nashville sideman, songwriter, and vocalist Ashby Frank has chosen to record a Jimmy Martin classic, Mr. Engineer. Written by Martin and Paul Williams, it was first released in 1966 by Jimmy and his

Tennessee mandolinist Roscoe Morgan has announced that he will be giving up his position with Clearview Bluegrass. With a full load of private music students at home in Maryville, TN, Morgan says that he simply wants to ease up on the

Kentucky's Throwdown Thursday got their start jamming once a week at a club in Lexington. Once they began getting requests to perform elsewhere and needed a band name, they stuck with what they were calling their regular Thursday night gig. All

Since the launch of Bluegrass Today in 2011, no artist has more consistently reached the top of our Weekly Airplay chart than Chris Jones with his trusty Night Drivers. Some of his songs have not only been repeat weekly #1s,

What...? Isn't it a bit soon to be talking about World of Bluegrass 2026? Wasn't it just held last month in Chattanooga? Well, yes, and yes. But the International Bluegrass Music Association has just opened applications for their IBMA International Band

Ida Clare makes their home in Louisville, KY with an odd pairing of styles and approaches. Two men and two women; two rockers and two grassers. Add in their original material, and it's a band going their own way. Robin Thixton

If we were to tell you that The Steep Canyon Rangers were circling the drain, well... you wouldn't think anything good. Circling The Drain is the title of the celebrated Asheville, NC band's latest single, with no negative connotation whatsoever either

Angus Gill is a successful Australian country singer and songwriter, now playing his trade in Nashville, with a new single that reimagines a New Zealand pop hit from the '80s as a bluegrass number. In fact, his upcoming album, Postcards,

The Music We Call Country, a one-hour documentary film about the earliest days of commercial country music, is now available for streaming or purchase from Amazon Prime. Produced by Marshall Hunter and Noble Giant Films, the documentary traces what we would

One of the best things about small town America, and something well worth preserving, is the quaint downtowns or city centers that still exist in small communities all across the country. Even when big box stores and online retailers have