Author: John Lawless

Larry Stephenson is putting the finishing touches on a 20th Anniversary CD with The Larry Stephenson Band, which will be released on Pinecastle Records. Has it really been that long? The primary tracking started in late October of '08 at Ben

Here are a few more photos that just came in of prominent bluegrass artists hopping on the Bill Monroe Stamp campaign. When The Infamous Stringdusters were at the Bluegrass Country studios yesterday in DC, Jen Hitt asked them to add their

This past Sunday's (5/17) edition of The Boston Globe carried a feature by Scott Alarik about the emergence of more and more young folk artists on the scene. The article has a Boston angle, as you might expect, but it does

A new CD has been released from Sound Art Recordings as a tribute to the late Butch Baldassari, who founded the company, and ran it until his death earlier this year. Butch was a true leader in the mandolin world -

I had to rub my eyes after first reading this press release! Steve Martin will be performing with his banjo tonight on the American Idol finale program. He'll be doing one of his songs from The Crow, officially released today (5/20)

We've made mention in the past about the campaign to convince the US Postal Service to issue a commemorative stamp honoring the musical contributions of Bill Monroe. According to the USPS guidelines, such stamps can not be issued until ten years

Mike Seeger has been named as the recipient of the 2009 Bess Lomax Hawes Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Seeger has spent most of his life performing and recording traditional American string music, starting with a memorable stint

Sometimes it's rough duty being the Queen of Bluegrass Music. This past weekend at the Central Virginia Family Bluegrass Festival, Rhonda Vincent was viciously attacked on stage by an unidentified member of the class Insecta in the phylum Anthropda. She got

The Infamous Stringdusters will make a stop this Tuesday (5/19) at the studios of WAMU's Bluegrass Country in Washington, DC. The guys will be playing some live music and chatting with Bluegrass Country's Production Director Jen Hitt starting at 12:30 p.m.

Adam Steffey is surely one of the most recorded mandolinists in bluegrass this past 15 years or so. He has spent time with two powerfully influential acts - Alison Krauss & Union Station and Mountain Heart - where he has been