Author: John Lawless

Pinecastle Records has released a tasty music video for Dale Ann Bradley, one of the most beloved singers in bluegrass music, featuring a song on her current album, Things She Couldn't Get Over. It seems that Dale Ann always finds a

The Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival is happy to be hosting their festival again this year at their Retreat Center in Mocksville, NC. Last year's event was cancelled, of course, along with almost every other music show due to the

Trevor Holder with The Price Sisters at 2021 DelFest Lite - photo © Tara Linhardt The Price Sisters have announced a new member to their touring band, Trevor Holder of Greenville, South Carolina who has joined the group on banjo. Trevor grew

Dark Shadow Recording has released a second single from their upcoming album from songwriter, Rick Lang. As has been his habit for a decade or more, Lang creates records filled with his original songs, with top bluegrass artists doing the picking

Jimmy Martin's home in Hermitage, TN, where he lived for 40 years until the end of his life, was recently demolished. Many of his friends in Nashville will recall visiting him here, as will those who traveled to Hermitage to

An online friendship during COVID-19 shutdowns has led to an artistic collaboration between two sets of bluegrass artists, and a new single release of a favorite bluegrass number. Banjo player Jens Koch and mandolinist Erik Igelstrom, bluegrass musicians in Sweden, got

The International Bluegrass Music Association has officially announced this morning the good news we discussed last week, that they are moving full-speed ahead to an in-person World of Bluegrass week in Raleigh at the end of September. There will also

Skip Cherryholmes, guitarist and vocalist with Sideline, and his wife, Stephanie, are celebrating the birth of their second child. Adeline Macie Cherryholmes was born yesterday afternoon (June 7) at 5:11 p.m. at UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina - the

The Timber Rattlers, a bluegrass quartet from Missoula, MT, have released their debut album, Last Echo, which features 11 new tracks of primarily original material written within the band. To celebrate, they have shared a live-in-the-studio video of the opening

Common Ground on the Hill has announced the winners of the 3rd annual Acoustic Roots Songwriting Contest. First place went to Kevin Hale. If you read the fine print on bluegrass charts, you've seen his name in the songwriting credits. His