Author: John Lawless

Danny Stewart, bluegrass multi-instrumentalist, bass player with US Navy Band Country Current, and proprietor of Turtle Hill Banjo Co., shared word of his adventures in South Africa last month. He was on the trail of an all original 1939 Gibson

From Toronto, the Lonesome Ace Stringband remembers Hank Williams, perhaps the world's greatest country artist, and indeed its likely creator, in their latest single. The Aces, consisting of John Showman on fiddle and Chris Coole on banjo, have been opening up

This past weekend, the 53rd running of the Grand Master Fiddler Championship was hosted in Franklin, TN, bringing in fiddlers from all over the US to compete for that most cherished prize of Grand Master. Throughout the day, a number of

Mountain Fever Records has released a new single for Junior Sisk, the final track on his current If There's a Will There's a Way album, one called Old Cold Shoulder. Junior, of course, has been one of bluegrass music's top traditional

Tabitha and David Benedict, one of bluegrass music's latest power couples, welcomed their first child earlier this summer. The two perform together as The Foreign Landers, and with Tabitha's brothers as Cup O'Joe. Both are first rate instrumentalists, and Tabitha

Sound Biscuit Records has a new gospel offering from Kenny Stinson & Perfect Tym'n. It's a popular song called I'll Stick With The Old Stuff, written by Stephen Paul Phillips. Stinson, who plays mandolin with the group, is an experienced professional

Valerie Smith is back with a new single and music video, a song written by Nashville songwriter and songbird Donna Ulisse, who also produced the track with a cast of Music City superpickers. What I've Got Right Here celebrates the simple

The Brewgrass mister himself, Gary Brewer, and his bluegrass family, i.e., The Kentucky Ramblers, in the persons of sons Wayne and Mason Brewer, have kept themselves plenty busy so far in 2024. They've been out on tour supporting Gary's latest

Fiddle and mandolin maestro Andy Leftwich has added another fiery fiddle tune to the repertoire with his latest single, Aced, recorded with Nashville superpickers Cody Kilby, Matt Menefee, and Byron House. It starts with Leftwich on mandolin, and picked up quickly

And cats, to be precise. This year the folks with the Carolina Bible Camp Bluegrass Festival in Mocksville, NC are inviting the good people with the Humane Society of Davie County to join them on September 14 at the camp. They