Author: John Lawless

Voxhall Records has released a music video for the debut single on their new album from Nu-Blu. It's an uplifting song from Devin Bell, Jimmy Fortune, and Tony Lopacinski which they've turned into a grassy anthem, called Still Small Voice. It

The Orange Circus Band has released a new video for their happy, feel-good song, Gold 'n' Rum. It finds the five friends from Virginia, Wales, Cornwall, and England rampaging through small villages in Europe where they live the troubadour life with

Raymond Fairchild is the real deal, and no one has ever accused him otherwise. From his earliest days entertaining tourists with his banjo in Maggie Valley, NC as a young man, people haven't taken him lightly. Though not a savage

The Chapmans are more than just a typical bluegrass band. I mean they are a bluegrass band, made up of three brothers (John, Jeremy, and Jason Chapman) plus their dad (Bill) on banjo. John plays guitar, Jeremy the mandolin, and

Did you know that tomorrow is World Fiddle Day? That's right, May 20 is the day that fiddlers and violinists worldwide celebrate the music and the instrument they love so dearly with special shows, workshops, and concerts. If you hadn't heard

Reso-guitar enthusiasts have always had a special place in their hearts for Frank Harlow, who has been hand-building custom instruments from his shop in Vandalia, OH since the late-1980s. While he was still alive, Gene Wooten was Frank's biggest booster,

When BanjoLit introduced their handmade wooden banjo armrest, Dr Arm, back in 2015, it seemed a certainty that they would eventually get around to the development of this latest product, the Cover Banjo Armrest. The earliest models were designed to help

In what has become a tradition before the annual IBMA Board meetings each spring, the various members of the Board of Directors will hold a round-robin, jam-style performance this Sunday evening at Nashville's Station Inn. It shouldn't be a surprise that

Becky Johnson, a 2009 graduate of the IBMA Leadership Bluegrass program, is the recipient of a Best Team Performance award given out during the recent Leadership Bluegrass Alumni Retreat at the YMCA Blue Ridge Center in Black Mountain, NC. Johnson has

Spanish banjo master Lluis Gomez has released a new music video for one of the tracks on his current album, Dotze Contes. It's for the pop song What A Wonderful World, written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss, which