Author: John Lawless

Rebel Records has two new digital re-issues, bringing long-unavailable bluegrass LPs back into the catalog for MP3 purchase. These two are from Rebel's sister company, County Records: a pair of 1968 albums from The Coon Creek Girls, and Kenny Baker

Jessie Baker has been announced as the new banjo player with Sierra Hull & Highway 111. Baker, 19 years old, had been a member of Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper since the fall of 2008 and will start with Sierra in

Kentucky Fried Chicken - or KFC, as they now prefer to be called - is running a clever online promotion for their new sauceless wings. They invited folks to suggest a video concept for finding new uses for the KFC

Steep Canyon Rangers will mark their 10th Anniversary tomorrow evening (1/21) with a special concert at the Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club near their home in Asheville, NC. Joining them in celebrating this milestone will be artists from

Rounder Records has announced April 12 as the release date for Paper Airplane, the long-anticipated new album from Alison Krauss & Union Station. This will be the first band project since 2004, and the first since Alison's genre-bending, mega-hit album

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver performing with a drummer! Has the whole world gone mad? What's next... electric pickups, flying to gigs, a 20 minute jam version of Yellow River? Or, in the words of the immortal Peter Venkman: "Human sacrifice, dogs

After serving an apprenticeship as a bluegrass sideman, vocalist and resonator guitarist Glenn Gibson has stepped out front on his debut album, When Times Are Hard. Gibson has been a member of both Dale Ann Bradley and Marty Raybon's touring bands,

Compass Records has been promising the next Gibson Brothers album early this year, and have now announced a release date of February 22. Help My Brother contains 12 new tracks, many written by the singing/songwriting brother duo, and recorded by their

Here's an album  from 2010 that I had meant to mention some time ago, Luke Abott's fine collection of mountain music, performed in the old time way on Take Me Home. Abbott plays banjo, guitar and fiddle as accompaniment for his

Cumberland River Band will be celebrating a major milestone next month, when their music is featured on the FX television series Justified. The show is something of a modern day Western, set in rural Kentucky, and starring Timothy Olyphant as