Author: John Lawless

If you didn't already want to catch the upcoming Nom Pikelny and Stuart Duncan duo tour, you will after watching this five minute preview.   These two masters of their instruments will be out starting May 17, touring together through the end

Well, that didn't take long. Just a few days after coming onboard to fill in, Jamie Harper has been welcomed as the newest member of Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice. Jamie stepped in this past weekend when long time Ramblers Choice

Travers Chandler has had a complicated relationship with professional bluegrass. His passion is to write, record and perform energetic and archly traditional bluegrass, with no apologies, and the frustrations of following his muse through personnel changes have found him dealing

Smithsonian Folkways has released a new music video from the recent Seldom Scene album, Long Time.  It's set in the studio as they cover their own version of With Body and Soul, a song contained on the very first Seldom

For a great many years, Bryan Sutton has flown under a lot of people's radar. Those 'in the know,' or closely connected to the acoustic music world, recognized the fiery flatpicker as the first guitar gunslinger with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky

As we noted on Sunday, Sleepy Man Banjo Boys were the musical guest on last night's edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live. They performed for a very enthusiastic audience, debuting the title cut from their upcoming album, By My Side. Their new

With the album release still two months away, Missy Werner has dropped a second single from her upcoming record, Turn This Heart Around. It's a new song from Eric Gibson, Rocks In The River, a happy love song looking back over

Musicians in the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University performed for the school's President's Concert on the Lawn last week. Their fifty minute set was recorded, and thanks to the folks at MoreheadMusic.com, here it is for you to

Young Nathan Stanley first hit the scene as a solo artist in his early teens, and now the grandson of the great Ralph Stanley has released his seventh album, Every Mile. Over the years Nathan has floated back and forth between

Dave Yates is a well-known bluegrass figure in East Tennessee. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the bluegrass program at ETSU since 1999, and is a recognized performer from Bristol to Johnson City to Asheville, NC and beyond.