Author: John Lawless

Remedy Tree is a young bluegrass band from north Florida who have been turning heads all over the southeastern US this past few years with their fresh sound and strong original material. While their widespread prominence may be new, the

The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University, a part of the Appalachian Studies Department, is on the hunt for an Artist in Residence for the academic year starting in August 2025. ETSU boasts the oldest

The good people who have been running the Doc & Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest since 1998 are asking the wider bluegrass and old time music community for help getting things ready for their 2025 event, scheduled for July in Sugar

Michael Cleveland and Jason Carter have announced a March 14 release date for their duo album on Fiddleman Records, Carter & Cleveland, marking it with a new single courtesy of the great John Hartford. It's With A Vamp in the Middle,

Volume Five has announced two new members of their long-running bluegrass band, led by vocalist and fiddler Glen Harrell. Nick Keen has joined up on mandolin, and Wyatt Harman on bass, both experienced young bluegrass professionals who have been active

Lonesome River Band also has a new single to share, one that reaches back to an earlier time with the band, and a solo project boss man Sammy Shelor released, Leading Roll. Shelor says that the song kept popping up, so

Well, it looks we have the first trade of the 2025 bluegrass band season. The Country Gentlemen Show and Carson Peters & Iron Mountain have swapped bass players. Taylor Parks, the young bass man with the Gents Show is going to

The IBMA Foundation, the charitable and philanthropic arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced the recipients of their 2025 project grants. These are given to organizations worldwide that are fostering the growth of bluegrass music, the primary focus

C.J. Lewandowski - photo © Laci Mack Turnberry Records has a special treat for Osborne Brothers fans, and anyone who appreciates country music from the 1960s and '70s. It's a new single from C.J. Lewandowski of The Po' Ramblin' Boys, Rosie Bokay,

The Travelin' McCourys at Wintergrass 2022 - photo © Maria Camillo McCoury Music has a new single for The Travelin' McCourys, a song called Daydreamer, written by good friends of the band, Eric Gibson, Leigh, Gibson, and Ronnie Bowman. The band, of