Author: John Lawless

Anyone who lives in a small town or city is familiar with how they can receive a nickname. It can be a promotional effort by a local tourism commission, or they can come by association with some accident or natural

The wild and wooly Hogslop String Band has released a live video shot while they were recording their most recent album, Volume Two: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions, at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville. It's a raucous version of the old time

Dan Eubanks, bass player with Special Consensus, has released a first single from his upcoming solo album, Look What the City’s Done. Like a good many bluegrass bassists, Dan came over to the upright after first learning to play other instruments. In

In a striking contrast with recent partisan wrangling in Washington, both political parties in both houses of Congress have come together to pass the Music Modernization Act, a thoroughgoing reform of the way that artists and songwriters are paid for

Workers make repairs to the stage ahead of the Suwannee Roots Revival in Florida. While portions of Florida's panhandle were decimated by Hurricane Michael this week, the organizers of the 2018 Suwannee Roots Revival want to let everyone know that they

Compass Records has released a second single/video from Missy Raines' new album, Royal Traveller. This is her first largely bluegrass project in some time, and it was warmly received by audiences in Raleigh last month during the World of Bluegrass

The Podunk Bluegrass Festival has announced a new location for the popular Connecticut event, starting in August 2019. Following this year's festival, the five year lease Podunk had with the Hebron Lions Club expired, and the organizers were informed that the

The Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music, who have hosted the annual Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival since 1972, have recently donated their entire collection of audio recordings to the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee

Billy Blue Records has released today the first single from their upcoming songwriter project with Rick Lang, Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout. Lang has created a number of successful bluegrass Gospel albums where he tasks top singers in the business with interpreting

As he has the previous nine years, Rainer Zellner will again bring top acts from the US to Germany this fall as part of his three-week Bluegrass Jamboree. It's an old fashioned package show that travels from city to city, bringing