Author: John Lawless

Well, it looks we have the first trade of the 2025 bluegrass band season. The Country Gentlemen Show and Carson Peters & Iron Mountain have swapped bass players. Taylor Parks, the young bass man with the Gents Show is going to

The IBMA Foundation, the charitable and philanthropic arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has announced the recipients of their 2025 project grants. These are given to organizations worldwide that are fostering the growth of bluegrass music, the primary focus

C.J. Lewandowski - photo © Laci Mack Turnberry Records has a special treat for Osborne Brothers fans, and anyone who appreciates country music from the 1960s and '70s. It's a new single from C.J. Lewandowski of The Po' Ramblin' Boys, Rosie Bokay,

The Travelin' McCourys at Wintergrass 2022 - photo © Maria Camillo McCoury Music has a new single for The Travelin' McCourys, a song called Daydreamer, written by good friends of the band, Eric Gibson, Leigh, Gibson, and Ronnie Bowman. The band, of

Aa a part of the Folk Marathon airing this week on the University of Virginia's WTJU during its 2025 fundraising drive, Bill Evans will be hosting a two-hour program this afternoon where he will play live recordings made at Charlottesville's

This afternoon in Los Angeles The Recording Academy is holding the Grammy Premiere Ceremony, announcing and distributing the awards deemed insufficiently important for their big, televised Grammy Awards show this evening on CBS. But, of course, these are exactly the ones

For their latest Rebel Records single, The Kody Norris Show features fiddler and mandolinist Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris on a song she co-wrote with her husband, bossman Kody Norris. Blue Ain't The Word also marks Mary Rachel's debut as a lead singer

Australian bluegrass songbird Kristy Cox has won yet another Golden Guitar award at the Australian Country Music Awards, held this month in Tamworth. She's won in 2025 in the Bluegrass Recording of the Year category for her current Billy Blue Records

Stephanie Jones with the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America has issued a formal statement regarding the break ins that occurred this past weekend during their 50th celebration of the organization during their National Convention in Nashville. As

Billy Blue Records has a fun new single for Dave Adkins, Ol' Rooster, which uses a barnyard metaphor to express how men of a certain age, who may have lost a little spring in their step, can still have the