Author: John Lawless

Patuxent Music has two new releases to announce this month, both of them challenging my perception of the label. Over the past few months, their new projects had featured some of the most promising young bluegrass and old time artists in

The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the bands they have invited to showcase during the 2009 World Of Bluegrass Convention, to be held September 28 through October 4 in Nashville. IBMA says that they received 121 applications, which have been

We are once again being overwhelmed with new CDs - and word of new releases - and hope to get caught up on all that over the next few weeks. They are coming in from all over the world. It

If you haven't picked up a copy of Brothers from Different Mothers, the latest CD from Dailey & Vincent, the next few days will offer a chance to hear all the new music on Sirius-XM. Starting this morning (4/15) at 11:00

Sugar Hill Records has announced a number of new albums set for release during the spring and summer of 2009. Already this year, they have a solo project from The Infamous Stringdusters' Jeremy Garrett, I Am A Stranger, which hit on

Rounder Records has announced the title of Rhonda Vincent's latest CD, Destination Life, due to be released on June 16. A track list can be see on her web site, but no audio samples have made available as yet. Three of

We just heard from G2, our favorite Swedish bluegrass band, with news about their next CD. Banjo player Jens Koch tells us that they spent this past weekend tracking at Cosmos Studio in Stockholm, bringing them roughly to the halfway mark

May 5 is the release date for, Two Dimes and a Nickel, the new Rebel album from David Davis & The Warrior River Boys. The CD was produced by Davis, with some assistance from his guitar player, Adam Duke, and Otis

King Wilkie is asking fans to submit artwork, songs, poems, videos... anything they might be inspired to create based on the characters featured on their upcoming CD, King Wilkie Presents: The Wilkie Family Singers. They ask that the various fan

Alaska Airlines has a hilarious television commercial poking fun at how their competitors try to sweeten bad news with... Well, you'll just have to watch for yourself.