Author: John Lawless

The pickin' Mizzone Brothers, also known as the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, have put up a few photos of their Tuesday appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. After one of their home videos went viral in June, a number

The Bankester Family has released their third self-produced album, The Bankesters. Phil Bankester, who manages and performs with his wife, three daughters, and one son-in-law, tells us that this new project represents a couple of major milestones for the group. Not

Seeing news about our photo coverage of the Red, White and Bluegrass festival prompted a note from Chris Jones and the Night Drivers as they were headed to Morganton yesterday for their fourth consecutive year of teaching and performing at

We have learned of the passing of Benton Flippen earlier this week. He died on Tuesday (June 28) at the age of 90. Flippen was a noted old time fiddler and banjo player in the north central area of North Carolina,

Our friend Dennis Jones, familiar to anyone who listens to North Carolina radio powerhouse WNCW over the air or online, will be using his position as an M.C. during this weekend's Red, White and Bluegrass festival to send us ongoing

I have on several occasions bemoaned the difficulty of trying to give a fair listen to all the new projects that appear in our mailbox, or increasingly, via digital press distribution. Plain fairness, and sound news judgement, requires that I

For years, the indefatigable Fred Robbins has been posting and maintaining an online archive of bluegrass memorabilia, in the form of photographs, video and audio files. His particular specialty is the early history of bluegrass festivals, from the late 1960s

It's back to the future for Ricky Skaggs. His next release on Skaggs Family Records finds him reprising his many country hits from the 1980s done up bluegrass style with his talented road band, Kentucky Thunder. In fact, that's the name

As we knew it would, video from last night's appearance by the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys on The Late Show with David Letterman has made its appearance on YouTube. If you missed the show on CBS, enjoy the talented Mizzone boys

It's a CD... It's a book... It's American Folk Songbook! Actually, it's all of those things, this new project from Suzy Bogguss. It finds this celebrated country hit-maker recording music much closer to the folk music she grew up singing, and