Author: John Lawless

Award-winning banjoist Tray Wellington and his talented band have a new single and accompanying music video released today. It's a song he wrote and sings called Man on the Moon, which showcases Tray's more experimental approach to the banjo and

Trish Plays Bass, aka Trish Imbrogno of Pittsburgh, has chosen one of the most classic of classic Stanley Brothers songs for her first ever single, from her debut album expected this fall. Her cut of Think of What You've Done is

Kristin Scott Benson, Gena Britt, and Alison Brown in the Compass Records Studio Amongst yesterday's nominees announced for the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards were two for a banjo tune first recorded by The Stanley Brothers in 1959, Ralph's Banjo Special.

Trey Hensley and Rob Ickes - photo © Jeff Fasano Acoustic power duo Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley have announced that they will be putting their touring act on hiatus at the end of 2025. The two have worked together for

Once again the mid-summer bluegrass season got a big boost this morning as the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the nominees for their 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards in a press conference at the Nashville studios of SiriusXM. The event

Charlotte Scott, Ricky Skaggs, and Sean Badum at Skaggs Place Studio Ricky Skaggs has announced the reopening of his popular Skaggs Place Studio tomorrow, July 16, after several years of extensive remodeling and renovation. Opened in 1968 by Duane Allen of the

Down The Road Records has released another single from Arcadia, the new album for Alison Krauss & Union Station. North Side Gal is perhaps the most fun track on the record, featuring Russell Moore, who has joined AKUS for this project

Timothy Goins, a bluegrass multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, died unexpectedly on the morning of July 10. He was 61 years of age. A native of western North Carolina, Tim was living in Virginia when he passed. He had learned to play taking

Many thanks to our friend Wayne Rice for sharing this interview he did in 1976 with a pre-teen Stuart Duncan. A number of southern California bluegrass legends turn up on this recording Wayne made of one of his first editions of

Pennsylvania's Colebrook Road has a music video for their current Mountain Fever Records single, Alone Again. The stark black & white video nicely captures the somber mood of the song, written by guitarist/vocalist Jesse Eisenbise, drawing on some of the darker