Author: John Lawless

Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers have a new single, one Steve wrote called California, which he tells us they did "just for fun." Of course, it has a comic twist, but all in all, this is a serious song

No Headlights is the title track from the next album by Kristy Cox, expected February 28 on Mountain Fever Records, released today as a single. It's a powerful song, written by Liz Hengber, Tammy Rogers, and Jerry Salley, which provides a promise

Tennessee's The Po' Ramblin' Boys have finally made it official, inviting fiddler Laura Orshaw to become the fifth member of the group. Orshaw has been performing with the Boys this past several years when her schedule allowed, and was included on

The Family Sowell, part sibling bluegrass entertainers and part Christian music evangelists, have teamed up with Alpha Source Media Group in Nashville to assist them with management and booking representation. The Sowells are a group of six brothers and sisters, born

Since country music has essentially turned its back on, well... country music, there are more and more artists who are too country for country radio looking to the bluegrass market. One great example is The Malpass Brothers, whose honky tonk

The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies Program at East Tennessee State University is requesting applications for adjunct instructors for many of the instruments taught in the program. Like most universities, the school supplements its full-time faculty with adjuncts who

Last year Troy Engle released a single from his recent Southern Skies CD, just in time for Halloween. It carries a serious theme, one that anyone trying to live a saintly life will recognize, called Haunting Me. And now he has

Multi-instrumentalist John Jorgenson has announced the launch of a new web series, The Guitarist, in partnership with K-S Productions and American Musical Supply. Bluegrass fans know John from his work in Earl Scruggs' band towards the end of Earl's life, and

When Steve Martin was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005 by The Kennedy Center, they commissioned a custom, one-of-a-kind banjo from Gibson to present to him. It was a gold plated model, engraved with his name

These days musicologists and cultural historians seem to be in agreement that what we know today as bluegrass and old time music has its roots in the mixing of the folk music of immigrants from the British Isles, with that