Author: John Lawless

In response to ongoing customer requests, Deering Banjos has introduced a pair of steel stringed, six string Goodtime banjos to their catalog. Both are strung like a guitar, making it a simple thing for guitarists to make banjo sounds without

Czech grassers G-runs 'n Roses have announced some changes in their lineup for next year. Guitarist Ondra Kozak is leaving to focus his energies on his new group, New Aliquot, and banjo player Ralph Schut is moving over to the guitar

Rounder Records has announced February 17, 2017 as the release date for In The Ground from The Gibson Brothers. This will be the first album of all original material written by Leigh and Eric Gibson which the brothers will have released.

Mo Pitney is known to most of the world as a rising country singer based in Nashville, but grassers recognize him as one of our own. He's not only made the rounds playing bluegrass in his native Illinois, and on

Here is a strong new music video from Cup O' Joe. It features Irish banjo prodigy Tabitha Agnew and her two older brothers performing a song they wrote, Tell Me Darling. The song is included on their current EP, Bluebirds, available

Rhonda Vincent has released a new music video, just in time for Christmas. It's for Dreaming Of Christmas, one of the songs she wrote for her Christmas Time CD, released for the holiday season last year. The video follows the Queen

Bob Redford, one of the original founders of the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, died on December 17. He was 78 years of age. A life long Kansan, Bob served as the President of the Walnut Valley Association for more

Jack Hatfield, one of the bluegrass pickers in east Tennessee who was burned out during the recent wildfires in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, has organized a benefit show for this Friday night, December 23. The Fire On The Mountain Bluegrass

At this year's World of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh, one of the new groups I most enjoyed seeing live was New Jersey's Nefesh Mountain. Fronted by the husband/wife team of Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff, the band serves as the Jewish

Barefoot Movement has created a special EP this year with a holiday theme. Titled simply The Barefoot Movement Christmas Album, it contains a half dozen secular Christmas songs that have become popular over the past 70 years or so, several