Author: John Lawless

Every year when the first round ballots for the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards go out, a list of eligible artists and recordings goes out with it. Though the list isn't exhaustive, and it bears a note stating that it is

One of our favorite female vocalists, Tina Adair, has a new single with Engelhardt Music Group. Known as a powerhouse singer, Tina shows a more tender side on this thoughtful ballad, Covering Up Holes, written by Billy Droze and John

The International Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville has announced the graduating class for the 2025 edition of Leadership Bluegrass, the organization's intensive, three-day program designed to identify and foster future leaders within the bluegrass community. Since the first class in

Ashleigh Graham - photo © Laci Mack Pinecastle Records has a lovely new song from Ashleigh Graham called Who We Were Back Then, which also features Russell Moore on harmony vocals. Written by Rick Lang, Nancy Posey, and Jack White, it's a

Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced the addition of fiddler supreme Stuart Duncan to their lineup for the 2025 Arcadia tour, slated to begin in a few weeks. Stuart is widely recognized as among the very finest fiddlers ever to

Mandolin and fiddle ace Andy Leftwich is back with another crackerjack of a tune, Highland Rim, which demonstrates once again the sheer virtuosity of this talented player on a new single for Mountain Home Music. Together with a bevy of Nashville

As we told you last week, The Kody Norris Show gave up a weekend off to travel to New York and appear on Fox & Friends Weekend, where they performed their version of The Auctioneer, the most recent single save

The David Mayfield Parade - photo © Itamar Gat David Mayfield has always walked to the beat of his own drum. Though he grew up playing in an easy-going family bluegrass band, Mayfield has created his own niche in the genre

Turnberry Records has released a lovely tribute to the late reso-guitar legend, and all-around bluegrass personality, Phil Leadbetter, in a song called Shiny Silver Bar, written by David Stewart and Mark "Brink" Brinkman. Performed with an all-star band, verses are shared

Traditional bluegrass master Junior Sisk has been hospitalized today with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), following a trip to the emergency room this morning. Doctors insist that he quarantine for the next 10 days, so Junior won't be able to make his