Author: John Lawless

This morning at 9:00 a.m. (EDT), Katy Daley will unveil our new theme song, The Speed Of Bluegrass, during her show on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. I'll be on with Katy to talk about it and prepare everyone for the March 22

Claire Lynch escaped injury in a frightening auto accident last night that occurred just as she was nearing the end of a weekend's worth of touring with her band. I'll let her explained what happened. "I was alone and had just dropped

Your Essential Bluegrass Connection That's our motto; that's what we bring. It's also the name of a great new tune by Jim VanCleve, which we have adopted as our theme song. It will be available as a digital single on March

We have wondered several times on Bluegrass Today whether it shouldn't be a requirement that every artist in any field of music had to make a bluegrass record before they could be voted into their respective Hall of Fame. It seems

Upper Management Music, the record company owned and run by Rhonda Vincent and her husband/manager, Herb Sandker, has signed country legend Gene Watson to the label. His first Upper Management album will be a duet project with Rhonda, following on the

A solid bluegrass banjo instrumental has made it to the finals of the 2011 International Songwriting Competition. The tune is Gone Beserk, written by Lee Marcus, and recorded by Dan Menzone on his Frostbite CD with help from Adam Steffey, Wyatt

NewFound Road has released a video teaser for their upcoming Rounder project, Live at the Down Home. As you would suspect from the title, the album was recorded at The Down Home in Johnson City, TN where the live performance was

Have we overdone the Sierra Hull coverage this past few weeks? I hope not, because here is one more piece of Hull news. To help celebrate her new CD, Daybreak, released on Rounder this past Tuesday, Sierra gets to perform tonight

Del McCoury has released the first in what are sure to be several infomercial spots leading up to DelFest, the four day music festival he hosts in Cumberland, MD over the Memorial Day weekend. He calls this series of webcasts (as

Here's a happy ending followup to a piece we ran last month, when we posted about Northern Departure. This young bluegrass band from Seattle made it into the finals of a northwestern band competition, Sound Off!, typically dominated by rock