Author: John Lawless

Jordan Tice is a young guitarist who is releasing a third CD under his name at only 21 years of age. Long Story, recently released on Patuxent Music, features 10 original instrumental compositions performed by a group of stellar progressive string

John Santa, whose book, Bluegrass Is My Second Language, has been popular with many of our readers, is involved in a special event later this month that has grown into something many Bluegrass Blog regulars may want to support. For the

When we ran our IBMA video interview with Cherryholmes in October, they mentioned that a country remix of one of the songs from their current CD would be in the offing early in '09. And so it has come to pass... Skaggs

The Pick One concert tour we told you about in December has largely come and gone, taking a star-studded bluegrass package show to Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia in early January. Instead of presenting bands that perform together normally, artists

Walk This Mountain Down from Donna Ulisse is among the several new bluegrass CDs due for release tomorrow (1/20). After a shot with a major label country release in 1991 failed to ignite, Donna has focused on songwriting, often with husband

Darren Beachley has announced that he will be leaving Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at the end of this month. Here is his statement about the move... "I will be leaving the group at the end of January. It was a life long

Later today (1/18) on KBCS, a special tribute to Butch Baldassari will air during Bluegrass Ramble. The show airs from noon to 3:00 p.m. (PST), and has been a staple on KBCS for almost 25 years. They feature a format of

A number of prominent bluegrass instrument manufacturers are exhibiting this weekend at the annual convention and trade show of the National Association of Music Merchandisers, known as The NAMM Show. Held in January of each year in Anaheim, CA, it

Today (1/16) is a banner day for finding choice bluegrass online. After the Mountain Heart and David Bromberg live set at noon on WDVX, there are three other opportunities on broadcast and online radio. At 1:00 p.m., Ralph Stanley II will

Mountain Heart has a big show tomorrow (1/16) in Knoxville with Tony Rice, and they'll be doing a live radio show on WDVX at noon while they're in town. Tony won't be able to make the radio show (Blue Plate Special),