Author: John Lawless

Crandall Creek, a multi-generational bluegrass band based in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, has accomplished one of the rarest feats in the music industry - harder even than keeping a family band together as the siblings become adults. They have evolved

While we all enjoy the big festivals and indoor concerts where we can see our favorite touring artists, sometimes the best fun is to be had at local bluegrass association meets, or small town market events like the monthly get

Following the departure of founding member Woody Platt, Steep Canyon Rangers have announced that singer, songwriter, and guitarist Aaron Burdett has joined the band. The Rangers, who started life as a traditional/original bluegrass band while the founders were in college, have

Earlier this month during the 25th annual Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT, the winners of their Podunk Songwriters Contest were announced for 2022. First prize went to Stan Keach and Jeff Trippe for Can't You Hear It Callin', a song

Oh no... there's two of them! Bluegrass fans have known Aaron Bibelhauser for some years, especially in central Kentucky, where his radio program, Bluegrass Evolution, airs every weekend on WFPK. He is also a noted bluegrass songwriter whose songs have been

Earl Scruggs playing his Jim Faulkner Mark V Ruben banjo with the Earl Scruggs Revue The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC has acquired a custom banjo made for Earl Scruggs by Jim Faulkner for their newest exhibit on the Earl

The International Bluegrass Music Association has today announced the 2023 class for their annual Leadership Bluegrass program, an intensive three-day course for industry professionals, held in Nashville in early spring. 25 applicants are chosen in a competitive process, based on potential

Mountain Fever Records is closing out the month with a new single from Canadian grassers Jackson Hollow, their remake of the 1991 Pam Tillis number, Put Yourself in My Place, written by Carl Jackson and Pam Tillis. Back in '91 Tillis

Turnberry Records has dropped a new music video today for bluegrass singer and reso-guitarist Darren Beachley. Bluegrass fans remember Darren from his time with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, followed by a stint with an all-star band he assembled called the Legends

Mountain Home Music has a new single tomorrow for Danny Roberts, mandolinist and founding member of The Grascals. It's a song he wrote about a common theme in bluegrass music, which gives the song its name, the loss of Small Town