Author: John Lawless

If you want to start a tussle at a pop musicologists convention, throw out a question about how rock n roll music got started. It's commonly asserted that it was an outgrowth of rural blues music in the southern black

Mountain Fever Records has released a first single from their upcoming album with Lee Kotick and his Sharp Flatpickers. It's a new song written by Claire Lynch called Goodbye Again, which she sings as a duet with Ronnie Bowman. The song is

So much new music today! Donna Ulisse also has a new single this week from Billy Blue Records, which is included on her debut album with them, Time For Love. It's a song she wrote with Bethany Kelly and Jerry Salley called Get

Bluegrass music, and the people who play it, has always been a source for wonderful stories. Even our biggest celebrities live pretty close to normal lives, so they face the same life struggles we all do, but sometimes these challenges

A new music video debuts today from Balsam Range for their current Mountain Home single, Grit and Grace. It's something of a departure for the band, a very personal story of grappling with what life can throw your way, yet finding

Mountain Home Music has a new single from The Grascals set for release tomorrow, and we are happy to offer a sneak peek to our Bluegrass Today readers. It's a new song written by Jerry Salley and J.B. Rudd, Sleepy Little

Billy Blue Records has released a clever new music video from Alan Bibey & Grasstowne, telling the story in their latest single, Hitchhiking To California. The song has been an instant hit, debuting on our Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay chart

Audie Ratliff, chief luthier with Ratliff Mandolins in Church Hill, TN, has produced a series of series of five videos which follow his process as he builds and assembles a set of ten new instruments. Anyone interested in the mandolin, and

With COVID-19 restrictions lifting in various parts of the US, we are finally getting chances to see some of our favorite artists on stage again before this summer is completely behind us. Some acts are braving the live-on-stage events where

Longtime fans of David Grier have learned never to expect anything in particular from his new projects, other than quality music, creatively played. The Nashville guitar wizard has graced us over the years with both instrumental and vocal bluegrass, with