Author: John Lawless

An awful lot of bluegrass bands use the time between Thanksgiving and New Years to either work on new material, or concentrate on holiday themed shows. People get into the Christmas mood, and venues and audiences alike want to focus

Boston's Cold Chocolate has released their second CD, and first full-length project. The eponymous album contains 11 new songs from the band, and a John Hartford cover. Unlike so many Boston-area bands who form within one of the city's many institutions of

The nominee for the 2015 Grammy awards have been announced today, and we see a lot of familiar bluegrass names in the list. First let's look at the nominees for the Bluegrass Grammy, technically, Best Bluegrass Album. The Earls Of Leicester - The

Florida bluegrass impressario Ernie Evans has shared this health update, his second since receiving a cancer diagnosis in mid-November. It appears that his cancer is treatable, and he is optimistic going forward. "We just got back from the Oncologist after hearing

Radio legend Ray Davis, who hosted an afternoon show for WAMU's Bluegrass Country for many years, died yesterday evening following a bout with cancer. He was 81 years old. Ray spent 65 years broadcasting in the Washington, DC area, 28 of them

Southern Raised has released a new DVD with an interesting take on the concert video. It finds the four Reith siblings from southern Missouri recreating the 11 songs from their current Make A Difference CD in music video form. These are

This month we're saying goodbye to one of the most popular roots music sites on the Internet. Engine 145, managed by Juli Thanki in Washington, DC, will shut down on December 8. Juli has taken a job as a country music writer

We're in that time of year again. If you don't like Christmas music, you had better stay home... with the TV and the radio turned off. But if you enjoy it, now's the time to soak it all in. Myself,

Punch Brothers have released another song from their upcoming album on video. As they did for I Blew It Off last month, Julep is presented as a static video.   The new record, The Phosphorescent Blues, is due January 27 from Nonesuch.

As the title of their latest album from Mountain Fever attests, The Crowe Brothers (Josh and Wayne) have been been performing together now for more than forty years. Brother duet harmony singing never seems to go out of style, and