Author: John Lawless

  • 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

  • This Time Around from Gary Nichols

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    RBR Entertainment has a smokin' new single from blues-inflected grasser Gary Nichols, This Time Around, which deals with the destructive habits that nearly cost him his career... and his life. Gary made a big splash as the lead singer with The

  • Charlotte drops for Cedar Hill

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    For many decades now, mandolinist Frank Ray has shared his Ozark bluegrass sound with the wider community through the band, Cedar Hill. There have been a few periods of inactivity, but he reformed the group a few years back and