Author: John Lawless

Franklinville, North Carolina will be the site of the new Piedmont One Mic Acoustic Convention next month. Sponsored by the Piedmont Old Time Society, the first event will be held May 4-6 on the banks of the Deep River in Franklinville. The

Pinecastle Records has released a single from one of our favorite family groups, Williamson Branch. It's a home grown band, created by longtime grasser Kevin Williamson and his wife, Debbie. Kevin plays guitar, and Debbie mandolin, with teen daughters Melody on

Mountain Home Music Company has announced the signing of Unspoken Tradition to the label. Based in western North Carolina, the band specializes in original bluegrass music, and impressed the folks at Mountain Home with their two prior self-produced projects. They have

For more than a quarter century, The Bluegrass Brothers have been traveling the country, performing hard core, mountain style bluegrass wherever they go. Heavily influenced by the Stanley sound from their native southwestern Virginia, this band is among the most

If you play or follow bluegrass along the Gulf Coast, odds are you have encountered Pat Murphy, one of the most enduring and colorful characters in our music. You may know Pat from his time on banjo with his wife,

Patuxent Music in Maryland has announced the signing of Jeff Scroggins & Colorado to the label. They will start to work right away on a new album, with Mark Schatz producing. The band consists of bluegrass veterans Greg Blake on guitar

East Of Monroe, a bluegrass band based in Maryland and northern Virginia, is currently on tour in Ireland. They have promised to send along something of a travelogue of their experiences, and here is the first installment. We arrived in Dublin

Mile Twelve has produced a new live video, their arrangement of Ace Of Hearts, originally recorded by country crooner Alan Jackson in 1989. Jackson's cut led off his Here In The Real World album which cemented his place in the

If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake. That was the name of a hit song back in the early '50s, and it looks like the folks at Mountain Home Music Company knew Sideline was coming for a

The battle over the proper boundaries of bluegrass rages on, and Lorraine Jordan adds her $.02 in the form of a new song, ably assisted by Junior Sisk and Danny Paisley on lead vocals with Carolina Road's Tommy Long, and