Author: John Lawless

While we're pausing to give thanks here in the US today, here's a new Thanksgiving song from Troy Engle, offered as a gift to the bluegrass music world. Troy is one of the busiest bluegrass pickers in Nashville, doing session and

Ernie Thacker's is a familiar name to bluegrass fans, for the soulful music he's recorded over the years, the story of his horrifying injuries from an auto accident 7 years ago, and his subsequent and heroic recovery. In a story sure

For those of us who live and breathe bluegrass music day after day, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that our genre is still in its infancy, relative to other longstanding musical traditions. Orchestral music has been around

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with a Thanksgiving weekend Bluegrass Weather Report. Y'all head on down to Myrtle Beach. Unh!  

Feller & Hill have released a single today, Government Blues, a new song from Dixie and Tom T. Hall, in advance of their next album, expected sometime in 2014. Tom Feller tells us that the Halls sent them the song a

When John Lockaby announced plans for Five-String Fest, a new North Carolina music festival centered around banjo music for May 2014, he was unaware that a long-running banjo-themed event ocurred that same weekend each year near Gatlinburg, TN. That event was Jack

The Deadly Gentlemen have announced that Adam Chaffins has joined the band on bass, replacing founding member Sam Grisman who is relocating from the Boston area to Nashville. He will also be helping out with vocals in the band. Adam is

Canaan’s Crossing has released Words on the Song Garden label, their first recording in three years. This is the sixth album for this noted bluegrass Gospel group, based in the northern Alabama community of Arab. The band is led by bass

The winners of the 35th annual Central Canadian Bluegrass Award were announced in Huntsville, ON this past weekend. Voting for nominees and winners is limited to members of the Northern Bluegrass Committee, who sponsor the awards, or one of six regional bluegrass clubs

Colorado banjoist Jake Schepps will be premiering another new classical composition scored for a bluegrass group (banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, bass) on December 6 at the eTown Hall in Boulder, CO. It's part of a series of four pieces he's commissioned,