Author: John Lawless

Here's a couple of names for you... Kenny Baker and Randall Franks. Anyone who follows bluegrass knows of Kenny Baker, widely regarded as among the finest fiddlers to ever play the music, and certainly the chief exemplar of Bill Monroe's

Nick Chandler has pulled a song from the world of folk music satire, and turned it into a legitimate bluegrass number for his latest single with Pinecastle Records. Never Did No Wanderin', written by Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, was a

Wednesday night jam at Steinhardt Brewing in Frederick, MD It's always been true that some sort of unifying entity is what is needed to create a bluegrass scene in any city. It might be a music store that offers lessons, or

When The Bluegrass Journeymen visited India early last year, they happened to hook up with singer/songwriter Jaimin Rajani, and went into the studio to record one of his songs, Can't Get Away. The Journeymen exist primarily to share bluegrass music with

For their 2024 Christmas single for Mountain Fever Records, British Columbia's Jackson Hollow has resurrected Brenda Lee's wonderful cajun-themed song, Papa Noel. The original was the flip side of Brenda's 1958 holiday smash, Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, recorded when she

For the past two decades Nashville's bluegrass community has supported a benefit concert in December to help the region's homeless people as winter descends. It will be held this year on Friday, December 6 at The Station Inn, the city's

Perennial bluegrass and country music star Ricky Skaggs begins his annual holiday tour this week, the Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Christmas. In most years Ricky had created a Christmas show featuring members of his family, his wife Sharon White, and

High Horse is a new young experimental/progressive stringband based in Boston, featuring a quartet that met while enrolled as students at the Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. They have all completed their degree programs

For their 2024 Christmas single on Thoroughbred Records, bluegrass gospel stalwarts Chosen Road have chosen How Many Kings, a song written by Jason Germain and Marc Martel, and originally recorded by their band, downhere, in 2009. Also featured on the track,

The Heady Wax Fiends Record Club and Real Gone Music have announced the latest in their audiophile vinyl resissues, the bluegrass classic Manzanita, from The Tony Rice Unit in 1979. This record hit like an earthquake when it was first released