Author: John Lawless

Michael Shannon with Richard D. Smith, author of Can't You Hear Me Callin' The Bill Monroe biopic, first announced back in 2012 and based on the Richard D. Smith book, Can't You Hear Me Callin', is very much still an ongoing

Tonight, we had the presentation of the 2019 Bluegrass Music Awards at the 36th annual National Convention of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America. The ceremony closed out the convention at the Sheraton Music City Hotel

In a solemn ceremony Friday at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville, six legendary figures in bluegrass music were presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Glenville State College in Glenville, WV. Things got started

Theo and Brenna MacMillan, a sibling duo from Winchester, KY, has a new single released today. It's one they wrote called When You Go, a smooth contemporary bluegrass number with Theo taking the lead vocal. He is on guitar, with Brenna

I'm in Nashville this weekend for the 36th annual convention of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America. A number of artists are taking advantage of this opportunity to release new music today as SPBGMA gets into

West Virginia's Circa Blue has a new single and a new label to celebrate this week. The band has recently signed with Bell Buckle Records, and a new album is being prepared for a March release. The title track, Footprints in

Radio listeners in east Tennessee who have enjoyed Steve Gulley's tenure as a broadcaster at WCXZ/WLMU were surprised just before Christmas when a change in budgetary priorities at Lincoln Memorial University resulted in the whole station being shut down. Steve not only

Gibson created quite a stir among mandolin aficionados at last week's NAMM Show in Anaheim with the first public display of their new Bill Monroe Hall of Fame mandolin. It was built by Gibson master luthier David Harvey and his team

Nashville writers Eric Brace, Peter Cooper, and Thomm Jutz have released a first single from their upcoming album together, called Riverland. Tom T. and Brother Will is told as a conversation between the great Tom T. Hall, and his longtime friend, Baptist

Are you one of those millions of music lovers who frequently hear the phrase Americana, and aren't entirely sure what the genre description entails? Perhaps you've been confused by seeing an artist you enjoy labeled as Americana, and then finding