Author: John Lawless

The fourth and final installment of the Colorado video travelogue from The Infamous Stringdusters has been posted. This video follows the boys on the last two dates on their CO tour, and a final show in Santa Fe before heading home

Multiple updates after the jump... It seems that the very promising series of projects announced last fall to commemorate The Bluegrass Hotel in Louisville, KY is falling victim to poor communication and inattention to detail. After discussions with Bill Millet, one of

Béla Fleck shared some information about live tour support for his new Rounder CD, Throw Down Your Heart, in a recent interview. The album is an audio chronicle of Béla's musical journey's through western Africa in 2005. He recorded with a

ASAP Bluegrass Mandolin is the title of a newly-released instructional method from Hal Leonard. The book, by Eddie Collins, consists of 112 pages of "quick-start" mandolin lessons (presented in both tab and standard notation), plus 2 audio CDs. The first CD

This week's featured CD on Bluegrass Junction's Track By Track program is What A Journey, the current Gospel release on Rebel from Paul Williams & The Victory Trio. Paul will join host Kyle Cantrell as they play all 13 tracks from

Del McCoury had a special guest when he performed at the Grand Ole Opry this past Saturday (3/7). The Preservation Hall Jazz Band's Ben Jaffe was invited to join the band on stage, where he played tuba with The Del

The new CD from banjoist Alison Brown, The Company You Keep, will be released April 7 on Compass Records. The album features her quartet: John Burr on piano, Garry West on bass, Joe Craven on mandolin and fiddle and Larry Atamanuik

The Judiciary Committee of the US House Of Representatives will take up the Performance Rights Act today (3/10) with a hearing at 10:00 a.m. This legislation (H.R.848) seeks to require broadcast radio (terrestrial transmitter-based) to pay royalties to artists and performers

We got a note yesterday from Charles Dumont, who develops music applications for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. We posted last fall when he released his MandoChords app, a visual chord speller for mandolin. Now, he notes the release of

Michael Martin Murphey has created a music video for Close To The Land, the first from his Rural Rhythm release, Buckaroo Bluegrass. The album was produced by Michael's son Ryan, and features bluegrass-inflected acoustic versions of several of his most popular