Author: John Lawless

Award-winning photojournalist Stephanie P. Ledgin has created a video montage of some of her images of bluegrass and roots music artists, and posted it on YouTube. She created two versions of the video, one with a bluegrass music track, and

We got a new CD recently that will appeal to folks who like to hear simple old time and folk melodies played on stringed instruments, in an unassuming, relaxed style. It's called Straight From The Porch, and comes from

Our own John Lawless will be teaching a banjo workshop in Raleigh, NC on March 24. It is hosted by Banjo In The Hollow, and will be held at the Community

Outside of bluegrass music circles, the image of banjo players is not always a complimentary one. From the frequent "Paddle faster... I hear banjo music" T-shirts, to the seemingly endless supply of banjo jokes and drooling hayseed stereotypes, you could

Bluegrass/country star Alison Krauss will make an appearance Monday (2/5) on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, performing with veteran British pop singer John Waite. They will sing Waite's recent re-recording of his 1984 hit, Missing You, which was redone

We found a couple of recent online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The Canadian Press has an AP piece on Rhonda Vincent which focuses on her musical upbringing in The Sally Mountain Show with her family, including

More great bluegrass radio news for the upcoming football weekend. The Saturday Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast on WSM will include performances from John Starling & Carolina Star, along with Bobby Osborne, Mike Snider, and Del McCoury. The Whites, Emmy Lou

Cadillac Sky is Kyle Smith's guest on XM Satellite Radio's Studio Special this week, performing songs from their new Skaggs Family release, Blind Man Walking. They will also discuss the CD with Kyle, and their plans for 2007. The show

Jason Carter, the hot shot fiddler in The Del McCoury Band, is profiled in the March 2007 issue of Strings Magazine. This issue has a photo of Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti on the cover, and should be on newstands soon. The

Rounder Records has just posted audio samples from the upcoming release from Uncle Earl, Waterloo, Tennessee, their second for Rounder. It was produced by John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame) and features the same brand of raucous old time