Author: John Lawless

  • Coming Home To You from Dalton Harper

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    Skyline Records has a new single today for Dalton Harper, surely among the smoothest and most expressive young singers in bluegrass right now. Harper is also a first rate songwriter, who composed this latest release, Coming Home To You, about

  • Jerry Fretwell passes

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    Popular Virginia bass player and retail operator Jerry Fretwell died on August 22. He was 79 year of age, and had been hospitalized at Augusta Health in Fishersville, VA. Born Jerald Ray Fretwell in Stuarts Draft, VA, he served in the

  • Willow – latest from Sister Sadie

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    For the third single from their next Mountain Home Music album, Sister Sadie has chosen one written by country artist Ashley McBryde called Willow. It's a mighty lonesome number that plays with the concept of the weeping willow, and several other

  • My Picasso from Edgar Loudermilk

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    Pinecastle Records has a new single this week for the Edgar Loudermilk Band, one written by Rick Lang and Jerry Eicher called My Picasso. It's the story of Picasso, surely the most notorious wild horse in modern times, whose movements around

  • Ken White named as IBMA Executive Director

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    The International Bluegrass Music Association has named Ken White as their new Executive Director, effective October 2. He steps in for interim ED Paul Schiminger, who had returned to the position following the resignation of Pat Morris earlier this year. White

  • My Last Run drops for Henhouse Prowlers

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    Chicago's Henhouse Prowlers have another example of their urban bluegrass style this week on a new single from Dark Shadow Recording. Though they've been active for 17 years as a band, working an absurd number of dates, the Prowlers have really