Author: John Lawless

Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green has announced that Sam Bush will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree during commencement ceremonies this weekend. Bowling Green is Sam's hometown, so it should be quite a treat for him to

Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys have announced a new single, out this Friday, and a new Gospel CD due in July. Unsurprisingly, the single is thick with the Stanley sound that his father personified all the years of

The good folks at Thalia Capos have come up with a new way for bluegrass lovers to show their festival cred. Phone cases with rosewood sides, inlaid with the image of your favorite instrument! Thalia came to prominence in 2014 with

Mountain Fever Records has dropped a first single from their third record with the Deer Creek Boys. A Lot Like The Whippoorwill was written by guitarist Justin Tomlin, and sung by his brother, bass player Jason Tomlin. It's a lost love

For the second year in a row, the International Bluegrass Music Association has awarded a scholarship to a promising young picker to attend the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, hosted by Béla Fleck. The 2019 recipient is 16 year old G

A memorial benefit concert is scheduled this Friday to celebrate the memory of popular North Carolina bluegrass musician Steve Sutton, who died suddenly at age 61 around this time of year in 2017. Steve had been a staple on banjo and

Morning Glory Music is wasting no time signing new artists since being announced as a new bluegrass Gospel imprint in the Mountain Fever Records Group family. Last month they signed King James Boys as their first artists, and have today revealed

German banjo icon, Rüdger Helbig, has released another instruction book. This time it's a volume on open tunings and music theory called Offene Stimmungen und Akkorde für 5-String Banjo. Though all the text is in German, Rüdi feels that any banjo

Shawn Lane, mandolinist, guitarist, and fiddler with Blue Highway, and his wife Gracie have released a single today. Lane is also a principal songwriter for the band, and this song is one he wrote with Gerald Ellenburg called Down Beside

Summer Brooke & The Mountain Faith Band, originally known simply as Mountain Faith, is rebranding yet again. Without changing their musical direction, this contemporary bluegrass, Gospel, and acoustic country group will henceforth be known as Summer & Bray. The name change