Author: John Lawless

Trey Wellington and Jacob Metz The Appalachian Cultural Music Association in Kingsport, TN was founded in 1998 with the goal of educating the public about all the music and cultural history that has been created in the east Tennessee region. They

To celebrate next week's release of their new album on Mountain Home Music, Lonesome River Band has agreed to share one of the tracks from the record with our readers. It's their remake of a song that banjo man and band

Sam Bush underwent a bowel resection this past Tuesday, and has been a bit slow to recover from the surgery. He is said to be doing well, and that the surgery was successful, but he will need to remain hospitalized

Music festivals are typically proud to make it to a 10 or 15 year mark, but it's rare indeed to find one celebrating 70 years like the West Virginia State Folk Festival is doing in 2019. The four day event

The fertile spawning ground of east Tennessee has brought forward another strong young bluegrass band, ready to take a run at the professional touring market. Midnight Run is four young men who are recent graduates of college bluegrass programs, and have

We took the occasion of a new album, Rise Sun, to chat with Jeremy Garrett, fiddle player and vocalist with Infamous Stringdusters, about this latest project and how the guys keep the magic alive after nearly a decade and a

Pinecastle Records has released a first single from Memories Of Home, their upcoming album with The Farm Hands. It's a new song written and sung by their bass player, Daryl Mosely, who tells us that I Can't Go Home Anymore relates

How to describe the feeling you get when you learn of something new from Kenny & Amanda Smith? You know it's going to be a fine song, tastefully arranged and expertly performed, before you even hear the first note. That's the

Alex Leach, long time banjo picker and vocalist with Ralph Stanley II, has announced today that he will be leaving The Clinch Mountain Boys at the end of August to launch his own group, the Alex Leach Band. Just now 30

Giri & Uma Peters have created quite a sensation in the old time music world. The brother/sister duo from Nashville bring a youthful energy to the mountain traditions of fiddle and banjo music. Giri is 14, and his sister, Uma,