Author: John Lawless

While we're all at World of Bluegrass next week in Raleigh, Bluegrass Today is planning to shoot a batch of brief videos for what we hope can be a semi-regular feature. We don't yet have a name picked out, but

Breaking from recent tradition, WAMU's Bluegrass Country will not be broadcasting live each day during the IBMA's World of Bluegrass convention next week. Instead, they will be hosting a big bluegrass show on Wednesday, October 1 from 8:00-10:00 p.m. The show

The bluegrass world always gets a bit of a thrill anytime there's talk of finding our music in a major motion picture. Those of us with long memories recall three separate occasions when a movie soundtrack led a massive surge

We all have our ways of getting ready for the upcoming IBMA World of Bluegrass week that starts next week in Raleigh, NC. Some of us are doing laundry and choosing outfits, while others are practicing up a storm preparing to

Are you a Banjo Babe? Would you like to be featured in the upcoming 2015 Banjo Babes Calendar? Erin Inglish is once again collaborating with other young banjo pickin' girls to produce a promotional calendar and CD. The project is designed

Rural Rhythm Records has released a detailed, track-by-track video for their new album with Nu-Blu, All The Way. Each of the four members appear on screen to share details about the songs included on the CD, along with audio from

On August 30, 2014, Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out stopped in Bob Mitchell’s studio. Russell and the band provided a dynamite 30 minute performance that you can hear on-line. Later in the day, they were the closing act for

Bluegrass hero and mandolin monster, Jesse McReynolds is taking it easy at home after an out-patient procedure at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville on Tuesday. This was his second electrophysiological study with ablation this year, where catheters are inserted into larger blood vessels and

Larry McPeake, bass player and singer with The McPeak Brothers, died this morning in Bristol, VA. He had spent the past week hospitalized and his health had been rapidly declining. He was part of the historic trio with his brothers Dewey

The Berklee College of Music in Boston hosted Del McCoury on September 12, both for a special performance by the Del McCoury Band, and to present him with the first of the school's American Roots Master Award. Berklee's Matt Glaser, who directs