Author: John Lawless

Veteran bluegrass artist Shannon Slaughter has released a music video for his most recent single, filmed on the grounds of the HF Bar Ranch in Saddlestring, Wyoming. It's an appropriate site for the shoot for I'd Be A Cowboy, written by

September 27 saw the inaugural running of the Southeast Bluegrass Banjo Championship at Common John Brewing Co in Manchester, TN. Competitions were held for guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and reso-guitar as well as banjo, with a special 14-and-under category where all

Anyone who remembers the era of the singing cowboy knows that they were as likely to sing about their horse as their girl. So what do bluegrass vocalists sing about? Their bus, of course! And that is precisely the subject of

Cody Farrar, who has served as guitarist, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter for northern Mississippi's Breaking Grass for nearly two decades, has announced his intention to step away from the band. Fortunately, the band is determined to keep Breaking Grass going

David Parmley is not one to let grass grow under his feet. Just a month after releasing his latest album, So What'd I Miss, with 615 Hideaway Records, and a week after being inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of

The annual Walnut Valley Festival instrument contests unfailingly draw top competition in the various bluegrass and folk categories. 2025 saw the 53rd running of this venerable event, which also awarded cash prizes this year to songwriters for the first time. Like

19-year-old fiddler and vocalist Mei Lin Heirendt is one of the brightest young lights in the California bluegrass scene. A co-founder of Broken Compass Bluegrass, this Grass Valley native is simultaneously pursuing a solo career, and has a third single

Former Sam Jam partners Sammy Carr and Rick Greene Sammy Carr and Rick Greene, who have co-promoted a number of popular bluegrass festivals this past ten years, SamJam Bluegrass Festival, the Spirit in the Bluegrass Music Fest, and Bluegrass in the

Kody Norris Show mural in Mountain City, TN - photo © Tim White The larger-than-life mural of The Kody Norris Show on the side of the Food Country USA building in Mountain City, TN, which we reported on earlier this year, is

Mountain Fever Records has a new single for perennial sideman turned solo artist Bryan McDowell. It's a Bill Monroe classic, Toy Heart, first recorded in 1949 by the notorious "original bluegrass band," and given a second life when cut by Tony