Author: John Lawless

  • Bend in the River from The Grascals

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    The Grascals turn up with a new single today, released with Billy Blue Records. Bend in the River comes from writers Billy Droze and Michael Wright, a song that blends the pleasant sound of bluegrass music, and the cheery sound of

  • Shannon Slaughter to Mountain Fever Records

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    Shannon Slaughter - photo © Elli Bean Mountain Fever Records has announced the signing of veteran bluegrass singer, songwriter, and guitarist Shannon Slaughter. The Florida native has spent a good portion of his life in bluegrass, living for a while in Virginia

  • Millionaire video from Big Richard

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    Big Richard, a Colorado alt-bluegrass outfit who has become very popular west of the Mississippi, has a single released just ahead of their upcoming album, Pet, expected tomorrow on Signature Sounds. The group consists of four women prominent in the Colorado

  • Stan Zdonik passes

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    Stan Zdonik at his usual position, MC-ing a BBU event - photo © Dave Hollender We are saddened by this news of the passing of bluegrass organizer and leader, Stan Zdonik. The following is a remembrance written by the Boston Bluegrass

  • Real To Touch video from Unfaithful Servants

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    Vancouver Island's Unfaithful Servants have released a live performance video for one of the songs on their current album, Fallen Angel. It's Real To Touch, written and sung by guitarist Dylan Stone, who shares that it sprang from a sense of

  • Welcome Zebulon Burleson!

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    Blue Highway banjo player Jason Burleson and his wife, Courtney, are celebrating the birth of their first child together. Zebulon Charles Burleson was born earlier today at 1:26 a.m. in Johnson City, TN. He weighed in at a whopping 9 lbs

  • Don’t Stay A Stranger from Tina Adair

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    The new single which we discussed recently with Tina Adair is out with Engelhardt Music Group. As she told us last month... "I have a brand‑new single coming out called Don't Stay a Stranger, written by the incredible Sarah Siskind. It's a

  • She Knew It All from Daryl Mosley

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    Daryl Mosley, a lifelong grasser with papers to prove it, has a new single to share from Pinecastle Records, about the wise women who guide us in our life called She Knew It All. Though he spent many years on the

  • Sallie Osborne passes

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    Dean Osborne has asked us to share this obituary. We express our condolences for their loss. Sallie Osborne, 84, passed into the presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Sunday morning, January 25, 2026. Sallie was the mother of