Author: John Lawless

It sounds like a movie script, doesn't it. A beauty queen from the western part of the state wins the Miss Kentucky pageant, playing bluegrass fiddle for her talent competition. But that's just what happened for Ramsey Carpenter when Miss Kentucky

Danny Stewart has been around bluegrass all his life. His dad, also Danny Stewart, and his granddad are bluegrass pickers, and young Mr. Stewart studied the music in the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music program at East Tennessee State University. While

John Marquess, bass player with the James King Band this past two years, has announced that he needs some time off the road. "The past twenty months I've been lucky enough to travel and do something I never imagined I'd get

Bluegrass fans in southeastern Michigan now have an advocacy group of their very own. A team of dedicated bluegrass lovers have established the Southeast Michigan Bluegrass Music Association, as of July 16. They have adopted as their motto, "Working Together to Preserve

Meeting as students in the American Roots Music Program at the Berklee College of Music, four young women from the US, Canada, and Sweden have formed a new roots/Americana aggregation which they call The Goodbye Girls. The Girls are Lena Jonsson

The first single from Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice's upcoming Rebel project, Trouble Follows Me, was released today. Honky Tonked To Death was written by Bill Castle, and tells of romance destroyed by a cheating lover who wrecked his life running 'round. As the

When you travel to Berry Hill in Tennessee, you may walk away unsure if you had visited a city or a neighborhood. In truth, it's both, as Berry Hill is an independently-chartered city in Davidson County which is also part of Nashville's consolidated

Poor Claire Lynch. She's had to go through the Summer without her bass player, Mark Schatz, who has been out touring with Nickel Creek. He's due back in the middle of September, but now comes news that guitarist Matt Wingate

Bob Perilla & Big Hillbilly Bluegrass is preparing to take another trip east to the Sultanate of Oman in northeastern Africa. And they are taking a piece of bluegrass history with them. Bob has made several trips of this sort for the US

Can a group of Nashville bluegrass superpickers recall the power and precision of Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in their prime? That's the question Jerry Douglas is asking with his upcoming album with The Earls of