Author: John Lawless

If it wasn't for Caleb Lindsey taking a chain saw to the face on Saturday, and coming through it with just a scar, we might be talking about Volume Five's Harry Clark as the world's luckiest mandolinist. Imagine returning to your car

Nonesuch Records has released this static video with track audio from Michael Daves' upcoming album, Orchids and Violence. The concept of this record is Daves' idea to include two discs, one with a dozen mostly traditional bluegrass tunes played in his

Billy Faier, known for his distinctive banjo arrangements, his radio programs, and his radical politics died on January 29, 2016 at the Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, TX. He was 85 years of age when he passed. Faier had recorded a

Can you imagine anything more frightening than learning that someone you care about has suffered an accident with a chain saw bucking up and striking them in the face? Every image that comes to mind is too gruesome to consider. And

This past Saturday night (January 30) modern bluegrass music held forth at Nashville's City Winery. The occasion was a concert by The John Cowan Band, which on Saturday included Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Tyler Collins, Graham Russell, Shad Cobb, and Ed Toth

Can we really be talking about a major artistic shift by an established artist who is only 24 years old? I guess we can if the artist has been recording since she was 12, already has a pair of major label

Iconic mandolinist Buddy Merriam has released a follow-up edition of his mandolin book, titled Back Roads Mandolin, Volume Two. It contains transcriptions of 32 more of his original tunes for the mandolin, presented in both standard notation and tablature, along with a number of

Central North Carolina's Swift Creek is working away in the studio, completing Magnolia, their second album of original bluegrass and Americana music, primarily written by their guitarist, Kevin Brown. But even before the album is finished, the band has released a

Look who's back in the studio this month. Blue Highway is hard at work again, tracking a new project with their newest member in tow. We caught up with Tim Stafford this evening and he shared a few details. "We just started our 11th

The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the hiring of two new staff members in their Nashville office. Leah James has come aboard as Director of Member Services, and Shannon Wayne Turner as Director of Communication and Development. This completes the full-time