Author: John Lawless

This morning's (7/26) print edition of the Tennessean in Nashville carried a nice story about Tom T. and Dixie Hall being inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame this year. But a photo caption mistakenly indicated that both of them were

Beloved bluegrass songwriter Pete Goble died today in Michigan. He was 86 years of age. Excluding Bill Monroe, Carter Stanley, and Flatt & Scruggs, it is unlikely that anyone has contributed as many songs to the bluegrass canon as Pete. Both

At a press conference earlier this morning in Nashville, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the final nominees for their 2018 International Bluegrass Music Awards, along with this year's Hall Of Fame Inductees and Distinguished Achievement Award recipients.  The winners will be

TuneIn, the free streaming app that allows users to choose from among 120,000 radio stations, has announced that they will be adding a dedicated, 24/7 bluegrass channel later this year. The TuneIn app, which can be downloaded for most any device,

Justin Tomlin, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter with the Deer Creek Boys, and his wife, Ryan, are celebrating the birth of their first child over the weekend. Lola Drew Tomlin was born at 2:16 a.m. on July 22 at the Virginia Baptist Hospital

The Maggie Valley Opry in Maggie Valley, NC has announced that it will be closed for an indeterminate period of time owing to the poor health of owner/operator, Raymond Fairchild. His family certifies that he has not been hospitalized, nor injured

On Saturday, July 21, Tyler Biddix, guitarist and vocalist with The Little Roy and Lizzy Show, was wed to Sheena Canipe, a middle school educator in North Carolina. As a full-time bluegrass artist, Tyler doesn't get many weekends off, so he took full

We written many times about Nashville's High Fidelity, and their mission to bring back the sound of bluegrass music from the '50s and '60s. It's a project of Jeremy and Corrina Stephens, husband and wife as well as musical partners,

Hot Rize fans were surprised this weekend at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival to see the band perform without bass player and vocalist Nick Forster in tow. According to our people at the festival, Nick was injured earlier this week while

Fans of The Cleverlys, that crazy clan of wacky grassers from Arkansas, are used to never knowing what will be next. Their penchant for creating hilarious bluegrass covers of massive pop songs continues unabated, with an uproarious stage show that