Author: John Lawless

This evening (10/23) at 6:00 p.m., you can tune into Uncle Billy Dunbar's show on WorldWideBluegrass.com and hear John Abrams talk with Billy about his work as one half of The Abrams Brothers.  Along with his younger brother James, these

Mixing bluegrass and blues influences in their music - rhythm'n'bluegrass, as they like to call it - is the signtaure sound of The Steeldrivers, whose debut CD is due on Rounder early in 2008. Their self-titled project features all-original music written

There was an overseas invasion on Michael Jonathon's Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour on October 1. Both Boys of the Lough from Ireland and Scotland, and Italy's Red Wine were featured on a recent edition of the program, and the

It's been a while since we made mention of The B, our reader-submitted news page here on Bluegrass Today. The B features content written by our users, and we hope you will take a look and see what it is

Would you like to see more bluegrass and acoustic videos played on CMT? Here's a chance to vote for Randy Kohrs and his new video for Who's Goin' With Me, a track from his current Rural Rhythm release, Old Photograph. Randy's

Here's your chance to get a free track from the new Mountain Heart CD, Road That Never Ends - The Live Album. The track is While The Gettin's Good, a new song written by Josh Shilling, Jim Van Cleve and

Back in the spring, we posted about a new book on the history of the WBT Briarhoppers. The book, The WBT Briarhoppers - Eight Decades of a Bluegrass Band Made for Radio, by Tom and Lucy Warlick, has been released by

Get yours while the gettin's good! Don't forget that today (10/22) between noon and 10:00 p.m. (ET), any registered user of Bluegrass Today can download a free track from the new Mountain Heart live CD, Road That Never Ends. The track

We've written a good bit this past few months about Josh Shilling, the newest member of Mountain Heart who had the unenviable job of taking the spot held by founding member, Steve Gulley, on guitar and vocals. Josh and the

This past Friday evening (10/19), The Steep Canyon Rangers played a show here in Roanoke, VA. I was familiar with their recordings, and caught a few brief sets at IBMA, but this was my first chance to see them live