Author: John Lawless

Stan Alford, a familiar face at bluegrass festivals across the Carolinas, passed away on Sunday, May 2. He was 67 years of age. A dedicated bluegrass lover, Stan was affectionately known as "Stan the flyer man" by his festival friends. For

Friday is the release day for Accomplice Series Vol. 1, the new EP from guitar wizard Tommy Emmanuel with Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley. It features these three virtuoso instrumentalists in a spontaneous, free wheeling recording, capturing them without careful

The second album from Memphis, TN's Graber Gryass, Spaceman’s Wonderbox, is set for release later this month with a dozen of Michael Graber's songs performed in a funky, grassy, trippy sort of style. Interestingly, the record was tracked in 2020

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out have announced the addition of Kevin McKinnon to the group. He will play bass and sing harmony, taking the spot previously held by Dustin Pyrtle since 2018. If Kevin looks familiar to IIIrd Tyme Out

The Foreign Landers, transatlantic bluegrass couple David Benedict and Tabitha Agnew Benedict, have a debut EP set for release on May 10. It's called Put All Your Troubles Away, and includes six tracks encompassing new music they have written, and

Come Home, from Bent Mountain, is an interesting new project with an unusual backstory. It's not centered on a particular artist, or band, but instead inspired by a love of bluegrass music by Quigg Lawrence, pastor at the Church of

Rhonda Vincent announced last night that Josh Williams, surely among the most admired singers and guitarists in bluegrass music, is leaving her band, The Rage. The news was shared on her Facebook page in the wee hours of this morning. "We're gonna

The IBMA Foundation, the philanthropic and educational arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced the Crandall Creek Scholarship starting with the Fall 2021 semester. This new benefit will offer a $1000 college scholarship to a student who demonstrates both

Two different members of Infamous Stringdusters have new singles today, guitarist Andy Falco and fiddler Jeremy Garrett. For Andy, it's a bluegrass guitar instrumental, Merriam Special, dedicated to an old pal in whose band he used to work back in the

Ralph Stanley, Jack Cooke, and Roy Lee Centers in Japan (1971) - photo © Tsutomu Otsuka Fred Robbins has added another valuable collection of historic photographs to his online archive. This latest is a series of images from the 1971 visit to