Author: John Lawless

My Bluegrass Story, the RFD television program produced in Owensboro, KY by the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum and the Tanner+West agency, has been nominated for an Emmy Award. The nomination is in the Arts and Popular Culture

Though a native Canadian, bluegrass singer, songwriter, and fiddler Mike Mitchell has long made the southwestern Virginia community of Floyd his home. He's raised his family there, where he operates a music school for students of both classical and Appalachian

Celebrated luthier Dana Bourgeois has reached an auspicious milestone. After nearly 50 years building guitars, he has assigned serial number 10,000 to a truly special instrument, a highly ornate OM-45 model designed for the occasion. Bourgeois has reached into his personal

The Gina Furtado Project is reaching all the way back to the beginnings of bluegrass with their new single, True Life Blues, one written by Bill Monroe, which he cut in 1945. Bluegrass fans know Gina from her stint on banjo

Several months ago we highlighted a new song from Danny Paisley's upcoming Pinecastle Records project, a poignant country waltz ballad called What Crosses Your Mind. It's a real old time country number, perfectly suited to Danny's lonesome style, which has

Bluegrass and acoustic music lovers in north central Florida will have a new opportunity to see and hear the music they love as the Hogtown Opry kicks off on Saturday, May 20, at the historic University Auditorium on the University

Buster Sledge isn't your typical bluegrass group by any measure. Based in Oslo, they are made up of three Norwegians and a Californian who describe their sound as acoustic Melancholicana Sadgrasss. It can't be all that bad, can it fellas? Their

For the second single from his upcoming Cast A Lonesome Shadow album, Larry Stephenson has picked a Waylon jennings classic, I'm A Ramblin' Man. "But wait," you may be thinking... "Waylon sang with a deep baritone voice," and you're be

The Goodwin Brothers have just released a music video for their current single, Everyday Thing, a perfect example of their countryfied grass sound... or is it grassified country? Either way, it's a super positive vibe that comes across well in

The International Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville has made three of their recent virtual workshops available for the general public to view online. These are Zoom recordings of the original workshops which have taken place over the past five months, with