Author: John Lawless

Steep Canyon Rangers have released a new live music video, recorded at the CMT studio in Nashville when they visited earlier this year. It's for Stand And Deliver, a song written and sung by banjoist Graham Sharp, from their current Rounder

When it comes to adventurous modern string music, mandolinist Mike Marshall has all the right credentials. Bursting onto the scene with the David Grisman Quintet in 1978 at the age of 21, Marshall has been a popular recording and touring

And now for something completely different... Is there something missing in your life? Perhaps the rowdy music of a French Canadien bar band that uses their own wacky sort of bluegrass in their heretical performances of traditional and original music? If so,

For fans of Scruggs style banjo playing, there aren't many pickers more esteemed than J.D. Crowe and Jim Mills. Of course, in a relationship between these two, Crowe would be the teacher and Jim the student, though their professional accomplishments

The Del McCoury Band released a music video for Streets of Baltimore a few weeks ago, and it somehow escaped our attention. It's the title cut from their newest record, a Tompall Glaser and Harlan Howard song that was a hit

Gabriel Communications will debut its latest set of Country's Family Reunion programs, Simply Bluegrass, this week on RFD-TV. Produced by Larry Black, host of Larry's Country Diner, it follows his familiar Reunion concept: gather up a room full of top

Banjo players take note! Tony Trischka will be a guest on today's (3/5) On Point, syndicated on public radio stations from WBUR 90.9 at Boston University in Massachusetts. He'll be on the show to chat with host Tom Ashbrook about his

The Country Gentlemen Tribute Band, fronted by long time Gentlemen bassist Bill Yates, has announced Larry Kirk as their new bass player. Larry will also share in vocal duties with the band. Bill no longer plays bass on stage, serving as MC

The folks at Bluegrass On The Plains, held in Auburn, AL in late May, have come up with a clever variation on the storied festival band competition. Aping the popular Fox program, their contest will be billed as Bluegrass Idol,

New Leaf Publishing Group in Green Forest, AR has announced a May 15, 2014 release for You Don't Cry Out Loud - the Lily Isaacs Story, an autobiography. Lily is the matriarch of the enormously popular bluegrass gospel family, The Isaacs,