Author: John Lawless

The Bourgeois Guitars company has been building handmade acoustic instruments in Maine for the past 50 years. Founder Dana Bourgeois, a native Mainer, is recognized worldwide as a luthier of the highest order, and his company has built quite a

Last Hour Bluegrass, a young bluegrass gospel act from North Carolina, has signed with Morning Glory Music in Virginia, a division of Mountain Fever Music Group. Formed two years ago, the band was recording at the Mountain Fever Studio, and the

From family pickers Kentucky Just Us comes a new song by Tim Raybon that celebrates The Osborne Brothers and all the great music they have left us with. Titled simply Bluegrass Music, it's beautifully sung by Jesse Meador, banjo player with

Billy Blue Publishing, part of the Daywind Music Group, has signed Mike Richards, founding member of the Chigger Hill Boys & Terri, as a writer with the company. In addition to songs he has contributed to CHB&T, Mike has ones recorded

Congratulations to Brandy and Jonathan Bucker on the birth of their first child! Noah Henry Buckner was born on June 21 at 1:44 a.m. at Princeton Community Hospital in West Virginia. He weighed in at 8lbs 9oz, stretching out to 20.5''

The Rick Dollar Show bluegrass podcast has been picked up by iHeart Radio, among the largest distributors of digital music, radio content, and podcasts in the world. The hour long radio program, which almost always includes an interview with a noted

Rebel Records has released another single to bluegrass radio from It's Just Me, their current project from Larry Sparks. This album has proved to be tremendously popular, as it is the first time Sparks has recorded with just himself and

Mountain Home also has a new single from Nashville singer, songwriter, and mandolinist, Ashby Frank, with newgrass superstar John Cowan and bluegrass crooner Ronnie Bowman joining in. It's another from Frank's current project, Leaving is Believing. They have chosen a remake

The Union County School in Blairsville, GA was the home for the inaugural Georgia State Fiddlers' Convention on June 24. And even in their first year, prizes were awarded in 12 categories with more than $7,000 in cash given to

Carley Arrowood Thrailkill and Daniel Thrailkill Mountain Home Music has a new single for Carley Arrowood, one she wrote with her husband, Daniel Thrailkill, guitarist/vocalist with The Trailblazers. It's a lovely contemporary bluegrass ballad called Chasin' Indigo, which extols the importance of