Author: John Lawless

Pete Seeger, known to the world variously as a utopian idealist, a communist propagandist, a union agitator,  a passionate environmentalist, or a folksinger, died last night. He was 94 years old. To fans of the banjo, however, he will always be

Kenny O'Quinn has been announced as the new mandolin player with Jeff Clair & Half Past Lonesome, where he will also assist on harmony vocals. Prior to signing on with Jeff, Kenny had worked with The Tommy Webb Band, Don Rigsby &

Pert Near Sandstone has announced an April 15 release for their next album, The Hardest Part of Leaving. The Minnesota-based outfit plans to make it available on CD, 180g vinyl, and digital download though their own label, Pert Near Music. Nate Sipe

This past weekend the Northern California Bluegrass Awards were held in Redwood City, CA. These honors are distributed annually by the Northern California Bluegrass Society during their Bluegrass On Broadway festival. Bluegrass traditionalists Bean Creek were the big winners, taking the Best

Tomorrow (1/28) is the official release date for Rhonda Vincent's next album, Only Me, a curious sort of double album with six bluegrass tracks on one disc and six country tracks on the other. It is packaged in such a

This afternoon at the 2014 Grammy pre-show cybercast, the Best Bluegrass Album was awarded to The Del McCoury Band for The Streets of Baltimore. As he generally does at the IBMA Awards, Del and the boys spoke until they got the

Here's a pair of fun videos from this week. The first is from Melody Williamson, who sings with her family group, Williamson Brach. It's a song she wrote called There's No Country Here, which while more country than bluegrass, expresses an

We just received an update, and some great studio photos, from Phil Leadbetter. He has been working this past several months at Eagle Canyon Studios in Lebanon, TN on a new solo project, engineered and co-produced by Steve Thomas. Phil tells us that

North Carolina's Kevin Carter and Full Assurance have welcomed Jacob Thompson into the band, playing guitar and sharing in the vocals.  The Lexington, NC native was raised in a musical family, and is comfortable on several instruments and in handling multiple vocal

Rural Rhythm Records has announced two new albums in their Heritage Collection series, bringing to six the number of re-releases from their deep catalog of bluegrass and old time music. The Legendary J.E. Mainer, Volume 3 was originally released in 1968,