Author: John Lawless

We all know about bluegrass, and have become accustomed more recently to jamgrass. But what about trashgrass? Well that's what Cincinnati's Rumpke Mountain Boys call their take on the music, and it served as the title of their debut CD in 2012.

Compass Records has put together a video sneak-peek at Love Has Wheels, their upcoming album for The Bankesters. It gives a taste of three tracks from the CD, plus interviews with the various members of the band.   They're in the middle

Special project bands are sprouting all around bluegrass this year. The Masters of Bluegrass have been struttin' it old school with Bobby Osborne, Del McCoury, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks and Jerry McCoury at festivals, and Sideline, featuring members of Mountain

Music City Roots, Nashville's sole live weekly music television venue, is moving from your computer screens to your TVs. After months of negotiations, it was announced this morning that the program, which features the best of the Nashville new music scene,

Kentucky's Laurel River Line is set to release their second CD, On Down The Line, later this month and have a debut single to share in advance. Randy Jones, mandolinist with Lonesome River Band, produced the project which contains 13

In-the-know Nashvillians and fans of bluegrass worldwide know that the place to go in Music City to see and hear live grass is the venerable Station Inn, located on 12th Avenue South, just below Broadway. Since 1978, the small club

A number of bluegrass acts have announced new representation this past few weeks. Appalachian musician and humorist Leroy Troy is now being booked by Hootenanny Publicity, run by Danny "Hootenanny" Clark, formerly with the International Bluegrass Museum in Owensboro, KY. Danny

Some of John Miller’s bluegrass friends have started a fund drive to help him deal with the financial costs of fighting cancer and not being able to perform for a while. The idea grew out of discussions between Mike Conner, who

Ron Block is what you might call a complicated artist. If you pick the five, you probably see him as the powerful banjo player with Alison Krauss & Union Station. Guitarists think of Ron in that role with AKUS, as

Our Spanish bluegrass buddies, The Cubero Brothers (Los Hermanos Cubero), have released their latest album, Flor de canciones. Like their previous projects, it features brothers Roberto and Enrique Cubero performing their mix of traditional Iberian folk music with the mandolin and guitar techniques