Author: John Lawless

Bonfire Music Group has announced today the signing of The Barefoot Movement to the label. A debut single is expected on Friday, with an EP to follow in February. The Movement is a four-piece string band who play an attractive mix

Fiddlin', the feature-length documentary film about the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, VA, is now available on two major streaming services online. Both Amazon and iTunes have added the film to their catalog today, allowing viewers to either purchase or

Phil Leadbetter, veteran bluegrass reso-guitarist, is back in the hospital. This past few years has brought a great many health issues to bear on Phil's life, but he has so far beaten them all, including five bouts with cancer. This time

The Price Sisters have announced the hiring of Conner Steven Vlietstra to be their new, full-time guitarist. He has already done some shows with the band, but will begin his stint officially as soon as the girls get back from

Dark Shadow Recording has released a music video for the title track of Rick Faris' new CD, Breaking In Lonesome. It's the rarest sort of track in bluegrass, the cheerful breakup song. This one, a previous #1 hit on our Bluegrass

Once you've been bitten by the bluegrass bug, you can never get it out of your system. Most of of know that is true, as one recently-retired group is discovering for themselves. After deciding to take some time off the road

We're probably most of us familiar with the aphorism, "When God closes one door, He opens another," meaning that good things can rise from the ashes of what may look initially like a disaster. It often proves true in the

Once again this month, bluegrass loving subscribers to the SiriusXM satellite radio service will experience a short term interruption in the Bluegrass Junction feed on channel 62. Long time subscribers will recall this happening once before when Bluegrass Junction was

The Alex Leach Band has announced that Joshua Gooding has joined the group on mandolin. Joshua grew up in California as the son of Dave Gooding, himself a bluegrass musician and a member of the Board of Directors of the

Chris Jones' acerbic column on self-promotion notwithstanding, publicity remains a major concern of independent artists of every stripe, including those of us in the bluegrass world. It has been well said that if you create a better mousetrap, but nobody