Author: John Lawless

Our friends at WorldwideBluegrass.com are promoting a pair of petition drives to get two of bluegrass music's pioneers into the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Both Flatt & Scruggs and Bill Monroe have been inducted, but WWB is hoping to

The Music Link, a California company who distributes a variety of musical instrument lines, many produced in Asia, has announced two new instruments which will be of interest to bluegrass pickers. First up is the new Artist Deluxe Banjo from Recording

Looking at our visitor statistics, we note that roughly 40% of our readers are first timers. A good portion of these new readers come through Google or Yahoo searches, or from the many placements of our RSS syndication links on

We've posted many times this past few weeks with updates about CMT.com's online video competition for unsigned artists, with the winner being flown to Nashville to record a segment for CMT.com's Studio 330 Sessions. Our focus has been on the bluegrass

Mandolin (and clarinet) monster Andy Staman will be a featured guest on this afternoon's Blue Plate on WDVX. The show will feature live performance and discussion, and is broadcast from Knoxville, TN at 89.9 FM. The station's feed is also streamed

We posted a heads-up when The Grascals were scheduled to appear on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson on February 12, performing with their friend Dierks Bentley. They were on to assist Dierks with his song, Prodigal Son's Prayer,

Brent Davis has worked in television in Georgia, Alabama and Ohio. He is also an avid bluegrass banjo player, and an author of fiction. His second book, Raising Kane, released in 2006, tells the story of Eddie Kane, a 12 year

Also posted today at Rounder.com are audio samples from the upcoming Alison Krauss compilation, A Hundred Miles Or More - A Collection. When we first posted about this CD last month, we mentioned that it was created to showcase the

Carmel Sheerin & the Ravens invaded the US bluegrass scene last fall at the IBMA World Of Bluegrass in Nashville. Having been selected as the top European Bluegrass Band in 2005 by the European Bluegrass Music Association, this Irish group

Audio samples for all 12 tracks on the new Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver release, More Behind The Picture Than The Wall, are now available on the Rounder Records web site. The CD won't be available until March 27, but pre-orders