Author: John Lawless

A good many serious bluegrass fans were surprised by some of the names on the list of IBMA's 2016 World of Bluegrass Showcase artists invited to perform at their convention in Raleigh, NC later this year. Some were new acts understandably unfamiliar

The Kathy Kallick Band has released a music video for the title track of their current album, Foxhounds. The song is one of Kathy's filled with allusions to the Father of Bluegrass, with that old time bluegrass sound we all

This past weekend in Marion, VA, a special edition of the PBS program, Song of the Mountains was recorded at The Lincoln Theatre. Its theme was Remembering Miss Dixie, and all the artists on the program performed songs written by

Here's a new music video from Rust & Roses, a collaborative effort between country singer Rusty Van Sickle and bluegrass gal Ashley Lewis. The two have been writing and performing around Nashville of late, and have made this video for Inconveniently In

This post is a contribution from Ben Somers, bassist with a new Transatlantic bluegrass experiment, currently on tour in Europe called The Peregrines. The guys will be sending us occasional reports as their tour progresses. The story so far……we left England by train on

The town of Sandy Hook, Kentucky may be small in size (population under 700), but it looms large in the hearts of bluegrass and country music fans as the hometown of the late Keith Whitley. Sandy Hook is only 25 miles from

Mel Bay will soon release a new book of old time tunes from banjo and fiddle favorite, Dan Levenson. Beyond The Waterfall contains 40 lesser-played tunes arranged for both banjo and fiddle, presented in banjo tablature and standard notation. Levenson suggests

We haven't heard much from The Bankesters of late, so we were delighted to discover this live video they shot during a recent performance on WSIU-TV, the PBS affiliate station run by Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The band was in

Front Country has been teasing their fans this past few weeks, releasing previews each Friday from their upcoming EP, Mixtape. It's a five track project of cover songs that the band likes to perform, which they cut to satisfy fan

Rounder Records has been justifiably proud of the success achieved by The Earls of Leicester, the throwback bluegrass band headed by Jerry Douglas honoring the classic music of Flatt & Scruggs. The label has delighted in the many awards The