Author: John Lawless

XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14) has released their Top 40 chart for August '07, based on listener requests and how often individual albums are featured. The top 5 albums for August were: #1 Lovin' Pretty Women Steep Canyon Rangers #2 Cherryholmes II Cherryholmes #3 Good News Charlie Sizemore #4 Old

Cornbread Red has a new CD of bluegrass tributes, this one for rock music legend Bob Seger. Runnin' Against The Wind features their take on Seger classics like Night Moves, We've Got Tonight, Like A Rock and Against The Wind. Cornbread

Here's a reminder that Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver will be performing live for a full hour tomorrow (9/6) on Blue Plate Special, streamed live at WDVX.com. The show runs from noon to 1:00 p.m. (ET). If you will be near

When the roll is called of the all-time greatest fiddlers in bluegrass, the name of Benny Martin will always be included. He was a member of the Flatt & Scruggs show for several years in the early 1950s, and also

Brance posted last month with information about Jim Lauderdale's latest release, The Bluegrass Diaries, due for a September 18 release on Yep Roc Records On Wednesday (9/05), Jim will join XM Satellite Radio's Kyle Cantrell on Bluegrass Junction for the World

Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby will be performing on stage together during the 6th Annual Americana Honors & Awards show at the Ryman Auditorium on November 1. The event is part of the Americana Music Association's annual conference, which runs

Jayme Stone is a banjo player who has defied a great many of the expectations associated with the instrument. His music mixes the 3 finger style passed to him from the bluegrass tradition with a harmonic sense that encompasses traditional

I hope everyone will indulge us for a few moments of self congratulation. We've just passed our 2nd anniversary as Bluegrass Today, and managed to reach a number of significant milestones in recent weeks. In July, we recorded our 1,000,000th

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story last week about Czech bluegrass band Druha Trava, who are touring in the US and Canada through the rest of September. The Gazette's Nate Guidry interviewed Robert Krestan, who founded the group in 1991 about

Rebel Records continues to make notable recordings from their back catalog available as download-only releases via iTunes. Two new titles have been added to their digital catalog this month. Blue Sparks is a 1983 release from Larry Sparks with Jim Heffernan