Author: John Lawless

CMH Records has three new titles in their Pickin' On instrumental bluegrass series due in January 2006. To date, nearly 200 recorded projects have been released in the series, each featuring bluegrass arrangements of songs from the recorded repertoire of

Tim Stafford and Rob Ickes of Blue Highway will be featured guests on the Christmas Day edition of NPR's All Things Considered radio program. Tim reports that they conducted a lengthy interview with Debbie Elliott, host of Weekend All Things

Just a quick note to remind our readers that new content will continue to appear each day on Bluegrass Today through the Christmas weekend. If you have gotten into the habit of checking the site each day, we hope that

In episode #8 of The GrassCast Brance has a conversation with Kerry Hay, owner of Hay Holler Records. Hay Holler has recently released a Christmas CD, Christmas with Hay Holler, and Kerry tells about the disc, the artists who are

Randy Waller & The Country Gentlemen will have a new CD early next year. Entitled Keeper Of The Flame, it is expected to be released in January '06 on Lendel Records. As most of our readers will recall, Randy is the

Bluegrass Tracks is the name of a new bluegrass radio show, airing on ACTV-4 in Hiawassee, GA. ACTV-4 is a local origination television channel owned and operated by Alltel Cable Television, serving portions of Northeast Georgia and Western North Carolina. Yes...

We just heard from Kenny Smith that Zak McLamb is now officially the new bass player in The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band. Zak has been filling in with the band since Alan Bartram left to join The Del McCoury

March 26, 2006 is the date for a very special Grand Ole Opry show at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The show is a part of three week festival at The Kennedy Center,

We heard recently from Carly Nix, who will be launching a new folk/bluegrass radio show on the Boston University radio station, WTBU. Her show will be entitled Over Yonder! and will run for two hours, once a week when it

It's a great pleasure to introduce Bill Evans as a Guest Contributor. Bill is one of my oldest friends in the bluegrass world, and I take a measure of personal pride in seeing the success he has achieved as both