Author: John Lawless

The Chapmans are doing well since they came off the road and settled down to run a retail music store together in Springfield, MO. The three brothers (John, Jason, and Jeremy) run The Acoustic Shoppe, with some help from their

Mountain Home Music has dropped a second video for Sideline in advance of their upcoming album, Front and Center, due in late April. This track involves something of a gutty move in bluegrass, covering a song that Tony Rice recorded. Typically,

When Clay Hess launched his record label, 7flat Records, he really intended it for distributing the music he would record with his own Clay Hess Band. But thinking more about it recently, he began to believe that he should use the

So often in the bluegrass world, we encounter artists from earlier times who had a profound impact on the region where they lived, while leaving little mark on the larger national or international scene. It happens less frequently now that

Terry Baucom & the Dukes of Drive are celebrating the start of their fifth year together with an old fashioned single release. Not just one new song for bluegrass radio, but two... two... two songs in one! The A side is

Rising country singer Mo Pitney grew up loving bluegrass as much as he did the country music of Merle Haggard and George Jones. As a wiry teenager he could be found at bluegrass jams and festivals in the central US,

Pinecastle Records has also announced a focus on singles this spring. They plan to drop a new track from a different artist each week through April, with albums from each expected later in the year. First up is a single from

British guitarist Chris Brennan set a lofty goal for himself when he set out to transcribe the entire Church Street Blues album by Tony Rice. And when he said complete, he meant everything - solos, accompaniment and all. So he dedicated

Arizona's teen alt-grassers, Sugar & The Mint, have released a new music video that mixes live stage footage of the band performing Grape Flavored, written by guitarist Keenan Hammack, with footage from the Prescott Frontier Days Wild Horse Race. It's a triple fiddle

Not long ago we reported on the Ashokan Center in New York's Catskill Mountains celebrating 50 years operating as a locus for arts and traditional music education in the region. Formerly a campus of the State University of New York,