Author: John Lawless

Margaret Louise Bell Moore, better known to television audiences in the 1960s as Bonnie Lou Moore, died on September 21. She was 93 years of age. Together with her husband, Hubert, they performed as Bonnie Lou & Buster Moore, finding a

Pinecastle Records has a new music video today from Flashback, for one of the songs on their current release, Blues Around My Cabin. We are delighted to premiere it here for our Bluegrass Today readers. It's the album's opening track, a

Guitarist Jordan Tice also has a new album releasing this week, Motivational Speakeasy, which comes as something of a departure from his earlier efforts. Growing up in a Maryland bluegrass family, his earliest training was as a grasser, and his

Independent bluegrass artist Rob Slusser has an EP of familiar standards and his original music, recorded with several of his pickin' buddies in western Virginia. He calls the project Drifting, with himself on banjo, Caleb Cox on guitar, Jonathan Dillon on

Chris Henry, noted Bill Monroe mandolin stylist, has announced a new way to learn how to play like Big Mon. He has launched a Monroe Style Improvising course for players who are already familiar with the basics of this building

Engelhardt Music Group has a new single for bluegrass singer/songwriter Eddie Sanders, Till The River Starts To Rise, which officially drops this Friday. Sanders is like many bluegrass artists, getting an early start in the music through family connections, playing extensively

Since 1965, the Gallagher Guitar Co. has been building high quality, handmade acoustic guitars in Tennessee. Treasured by flatpickers and finger style guitarists alike, these fine instruments attained global recognition when the great Doc Watson acquired one of their G-50

Pinecastle Records has a new music video for Williamson Branch, one of the tracks on their current record, Classy, Sassy, Bluegrassy. This family band from Tennessee does all the important things right, both large and small, from their clever original songs

Andy Hall, reso-guitarist and vocalist with The Infamous Stringdusters, has a new album coming up next month, filled with his solo arrangements of a dozen bluegrass standards. Its title describes the project perfectly, 12 Bluegrass Classics for Resophonic Guitars. The setting

We've all had something to suffer during this year's COVID-19 shutdowns and restrictions. For most of us, fortunately, it hasn't involved serious illness and hospitalization, though that has existed for some. We all surely know someone who has been unable