Author: John Lawless

Toronto's Slocan Ramblers had a big night in Nashville last fall when they were invited to make their debut performance on the Grand Ole Opry. The got the full treatment, with their own reserved parking sign, and a big buildup

Here's a new outfit with an adventurous approach to modern acoustic string music, clearly informed by bluegrass. The quartet calls themselves EZRA, and consists of Jacob Jolliff on mandolin, Jesse Jones on guitar, Max Allard on banjo, and Craig Butterfield on

From Hamden, Connecticut comes another new bluegrass podcast with the clever name, Got 'Grass? The podcast is hosted by Chris Wuerth, who manages the GuitartownCT concerts in Hamden, which is located about ten miles north of New Haven. The region has

The California Bluegrass Association, in keeping with their longstanding practice of building future bluegrass leaders through aggressive contemporary action, has announced a Leadership Training opportunity during this year's Father's Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley, CA in June. CBA is offering

If you recognize the folks in the photo above as Junior Sisk's band, you aren't far wrong. Noticing Junior's obvious absence, one might be tempted to say... "hey, what's up with that?" Well, this is Red Camel Collective, a new outfit

Billy Blue Records has produced a music video for their current single with powerhouse bluegrass singer Dave Adkins, What I'm For, which is also the title track of his latest album, just recently released. It's an anthemic ballad from writers Marc

No... that's not a stigmata on Russ Carson's right hand. The crackerjack banjo picker with Ricky Skaggs is just off a full month of banjo rest following carpal tunnel surgery. This inflammatory disorder has afflicted a number of banjo players. It

Bluegrass super picker and bandleader Clay Hess has a new single to share this week, his cut of the Merle Travis classic, Sixteen Tons. This hard core coal mining song was first recored by Travis in 1946, though it was Tennessee

Volume Five has a new single on tap this week, a grassed up remake of a 1977 hit from British rocker Dave Mason. It's their version of We Just Disagree, written by Jim Krueger, who sang harmony on the original cut,

During the summer of 1972, a movie called Deliverance shook things up in the United States. The film itself, and its intensely negative portrayal of residents of the Appalachian region of northern Georgia offered a view of mountain folk that