Author: John Lawless

Merle Monroe, the popular bluegrass band founded by Tim Raybon and Daniel Grindstaff, is rebranding as The Tim Raybon Band going into 2022. It's not as a result of any fallout between Tim and Daniel, or Daniel leaving the group, as

With Christmas music playing everywhere we go, and the year end chill already in the air in most of the northern hemisphere, it's time once again for the 4th annual Becky Buller Band Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest. As in years past,

Bluegrass singer/songwriter Carolyn Eyerly has produced a music video this year for one of the songs from her album, The Sunny Side of Life, released in December of 2020. It's a curious Christmas number she wrote about a group excursion she made

The Yellowstone television series on the Paramount network has won a great many fans all over the world. Since its debut in 2018, the program has won rave reviews from critics and viewers alike for its depiction of ranch life

The Bluegrass Babies are back, with another of their animated videos introducing young children to bluegrass music. As ever, the music is created by Paul Castle and The Rosinators, with animation by Caroline Roberts of Little Pie Studios. In this adventure,

Rhonda Vincent has an early Christmas present for us all, a hilarious video version of I Ain't Been Nowhere from her current Music Is What I See album. It features Rhonda, the members of her touring band, The Rage, her husband,

Dom Flemons teaches a recent banjo class hosted by the Black Banjo Reclamation Project at the Old Time School of Folk Music in Chicago Following several generations of African Americans running away from old time music and the banjo in particular, the

Yonder Mountain String Band really throws down the grass on their latest single, the first from the band's upcoming Get Yourself Outside album. Into The Fire features the newest member of the band, mandolinist Nick Piccininni, who is quite prominent on this

Mountain Home Music has released another single from their upcoming Bluegrass At The Crossroads album, a sort of band scramble project that groups artists from a variety of different outfits, brought together to record a mix of new material and

Cody Farrar, guitarist, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter with Breaking Grass, and his wife, Amanda, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Denver Rose Farrar was born in Tupelo, MS on November 24 at 9:21. p.m. She arrived almost four