Author: John Lawless

If the name Cody Hull sounds familiar, there's a good reason. He's the older brother of bluegrass/Americana darling Sierra Hull, and the two grew up playing bluegrass together as youngsters. And like his little sis, Cody has embarked on a career

Friends of bluegrass musician Wade Cox, who died unexpectedly in April at 43, are hard at work memorializing their fallen companion. They are raising funds now to complete a recording Wade was working on when he passed, and to purchase a suitable

In the earliest days of bluegrass music it was the product of an authentically rural culture. The only artists making this new music in the 1940s were country and mountain folks whose lives revolved around the land from whence they

If you haven't caught the current edition of Alan Bibey & Grasstowne this season, they've posted this live video from Rockahock Bluegrass in Lenexa, VA. Bibey is still entrenched in the driver's seat, with Greg Luck on guitar, Gena Britt on

The opening track of Junior Sisk's new album, Poor Boy's Pleasure, kicks of with a moonshining song. I know! I'm as shocked as you are. Sisk, the bluegrass pride of Franklin County, VA is among the most renowned vocalists in our

Bill Warren wasn't the only only covering the 2016 Charlotte Bluegrass Music Festival last week in Michigan. Public television station WGVU sent Patrick Center to cover the festivities for the station's Newsmakers program. Center spoke with Wes Pettinger, who promotes the festival, and several of

Edgar Loudermilk has announced a winter bluegrass concert series to keep the music ringing at Jaemor Farms in Alto, GA, the site of Edgar's Bluegrass Farm Jam Festival in April of this year. The Barn at Jaemor Farms can seat just under 250

Rebel Records has released a single from Mickey Galyean & Cullen's Bridge ahead of their first album for the label, expected later this summer. It's the title track for the album, I Found My Daddy's Grass, written by Cullen's Bridge banjo

The bluegrass festival season is just getting underway in earnest for 2016, and already the big news is the return of David Parmley to the circuit with his stellar band, Cardinal Tradition. Standing on stage with David on the five

Charles Ray Stearman, the founder of the long running Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America, has died at 79. Known as Chuck to family and friends, he had been living in a nursing facility in Brookfield, MO, a short