Author: John Lawless

Bluegrass singer and songwriter Ginger Boatwright may have been born in Mississippi, but she's been an Alabama gal most of her life. She had an active life in bluegrass, performing with Red, White & Blue (Grass) in the 1970s, and

Bluegrass is well-represented on the upcoming Yep Roc Records project, Sawyer Sessions, Season 1, set for LP release on Record Store Day, April 18. The album contains tracks from the YouTube music series by the same name, created by filming a

Those who follow the international press may recognize that the term Americanization is used pejoratively by some guardians of European culture. The worldwide dominance of the English language, the American dollar, and US pop culture is viewed by some as a

MerleFest has announced the finalists in their 2015 Chris Austin Songwriting Contest, an invitational competition being held for the 23rd time this year during the festival on April 24. Three finalists are selected in four categories from among the hundreds of

Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road have released the first video from their upcoming Pinecastle album, Country Grass. It's a collaboration with The Kentucky Headhunters on a grassy version of their song, Runnin' Water.   Runnin' Water is also offered as a single in

Concord Music Group, a Beverly Hills-based music publishing and record label conglomerate, has acquired Sugar Hill Records and Vanguard Records from the Welk Music Group. Plans are for Sugar Hill to move into the Nashville offices of Rounder Records, another Concord property,

Bluegrass legend Aubrey Holt is back home after a brief hospitalization to treat his congestive heart failure. He was kept in the hospital longer than expected, owing to the large amount of fluid that had built up around his heart,

At a press conference earlier this afternoon in Owensboro, KY, Governor Steve Beshear committed the Commonwealth of Kentucky to provide the necessary funds to complete the new International Bluegrass Music Center overlooking the Ohio River in downtown Owensboro. The center will serve

Kentucky's Hammertowne has announced the addition of Doug Bartlett on fiddle and vocals. They are making the move to a six-piece format just ahead of the release of their Highways & Heartaches album on Mountain Fever in April. Doug has many years of

The bluegrass community in the Blue Ridge region of Virginia is in mourning this week following the death of Jesse Carper, age 26, in a single car accident early Sunday morning. Jesse played mandolin and sang, and had been a member