Author: John Lawless

  • You’re The One video from Flatt Lonesome

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    Here's another live video from Flatt Lonesome's April concert shoot at Asheville's Isis Music Hall. This time it's You're The One, perhaps their biggest number yet, included on their current Runaway Train album. It was a Top 5 hit for Dwight Yoakam

  • Answer To My Prayer from Bluegrass Express

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    Bluegrass Express, from northeastern Illinois, has released a debut single ahead of their next all-Gospel album. This family group features three generations of singing Underwoods who have been performing together since 1979. Patriarch Gary Underwood started the group with his son,

  • Noah Brown to Darrell Webb

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    Darrell Webb has announced that Noah Brown has come aboard to play bass with the Darrell Webb Band. Barely out of his teens, Noah has already worked with Ralph Stanley II and Junior Sisk. He'll start working with Webb right

  • Goldbrickin’ video from OctoPladd

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    OctoPladd is another young band formed within the growing bluegrass community that surrounds the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Their name could have bizarre, mystical connotations - or it could just be because each of the four of them are

  • Don Parmley passes

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    Don Parmley, lifelong banjo player and patriarch of the legendary Bluegrass Cardinals, has died. He was 83 years old. A native of the Bluegrass State, Parmley's family moved west to California when he was a very young boy. There he developed

  • Melvin Goins passes

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    The community of first generation bluegrass heroes got a good bit smaller today. Melvin Goins has passed away after more than 65 years of performing bluegrass music. He was 83 years of age and touring in Canada when he died. Growing up

  • Bluegrass Guru arrives for iOS

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    Boyd Timothy is a bluegrass musician from Utah. He's a hard-core fan of the music, and like most of us, is a dedicated jammer. He is also a successful computer programmer with a degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and eleven

  • David Parmley & Cardinal Tradition

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    He's baaaaaaaack....... David Parmley, a hero to fans of the Flatt & Scruggs style of traditional bluegrass music, has finally returned to touring and recording. As the lead singer for The Bluegrass Cardinals in the 1970s and '80s, David helped establish

  • Carroll County Blues from The Western Flyers

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    Wild Blue Yonder is the debut album from The Western Flyers, a new western swing outfit that features the sparkling fiddle of Katie Glassman, the 2016 Swing Fiddling champion at the National Oldtime Fiddler’s Contest in Weiser, ID. In addition to Katie's fiddle, this