Author: John Lawless

  • Calling Me To Go from Self Rising Flour

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    Finland's Self Rising Flour is back with a new single, the first from their upcoming second album, which like the last, willconsists of entirely original material written within the band. They play a distinctly traditional brand of bluegrass, which is

  • Kristy Cox to Rockwood Booking

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    Rockwood Booking, who represent a number of bluegrass and Americana artists, including Chris Jones & The Night Drivers and The Jakob's Ferry Stragglers, has been announced as the new agents for Australian bluegrass vocalist and bandleader, Kristy Cox. Signed to Billy

  • Touchstone Country Boy models from Bourgeois Guitars

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    Bourgeois Guitars has introduced two new models as part of their continuing collaboration with the Eastman Music Company and their manufacturing facilities in Bazhou, China. This partnership allows the company to offer hand-crafted, solid wood guitars, designed by Dana Bourgeois,

  • Frank Solivan Sr passes

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    Frank Solivan, one of the pillars of the California bluegrass scene, and the founder of the Kids on Bluegrass program for the California Bluegrass Association, died on August 24 at 78 years of age. He had been caught in serious

  • Get Lost video from Wyatt Ellis

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    Mandolin wunderkind Wyatt Ellis has released another single from his next self-produced album, a new instrumental tune called Get Lost, which he wrote with one of his teachers, Jake Workman, of Kentucky Thunder. Only 14 years of age, young Mr. Ellis

  • We’ll All Drink Money from Balsam Range

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    Balsam Range also has a new single this week from Mountain Home Music, a gutty, medium tempo grasser called We'll All Drink Money, written by Adam Louis Wright, who also contributed the band's previous release, What The Years Do. The song