Author: John Lawless

Bluegrass fans immediately recognize the name Bill Yates for his many years as a member of The Country Gentlemen. Bill played bass and sang harmony with the band through several line up changes, staying with Charlie Waller for 20 years,

We posted on Monday about Arthur Hatfield, a well-loved and respected banjo builder, who was seriously injured in a shop fire. At that time, we mentioned that efforts were underway to help assist Arthur and his wife Beverly with the

Katherine Cole reviewed Chris Thile's latest CD, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, for Voice Of America in a broadcast on November 15. There isn't much in the way of news in her review, and readers of Bluegrass

Here's a feel-good story, one about which we have been aware for a few weeks, but have waited until now to mention, once the episode played out. As an admission of interest, let me say up front that it involves

Wildfire guitarist/vocalist Robert Hale is working on a solo project, according to the Wildfire web site. They don't say much about the material or the guest artists, except to say that many of Robert's long time musical friends and collaborators

We posted last week about some of the press coverage from China of the current Sparrow Quartet tour. The band features Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn on picked and non-picked banjo respectively, with Casey Driessen on fiddle and Ben Sollee

We found a nice profile of Louise Scruggs in the November 13 edition of American Chronicle, which can be read online. She was married to banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs for more than 50 years when she passed away on February

To help promote her newly-released Christmas CD, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, Rhonda Vincent has launched an online contest with a 12 Days Of Christmas theme. This is really a series of 12 contests, involving trivia questions, each running for 2

Avatars are those small icons that are used to identify users in online discussions, or in more complex form, in many online games. If you frequent such sites, you may have seen them before, though the word, or its use

We found a link on Pete Wernick's web site that points to the audio from a recent edition of Etown, the weekly radio show hosted by former Hot Rize bass man Nick Forster. The show included one of the occasional