Author: John Lawless

Folks in attendance at this weekend's Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival will be in for a special treat. As part of the stellar lineup, Junior Sisk & Joe Mullins will perform music from their hit Rebel album, Hall Of Fame

When Lisa Jacobi ran her interview with John Cowan earlier this month, she must have used the word "compass" nine or ten times. Was she getting a vibe from Cowan about his next move, or perhaps trying to telegraph news

Ricky Skaggs has a new banjo player. Russ Carson, who had played with Audie Blaylock & Redline the past three years, is the newest member of Kentucky Thunder. Russ was quick to mention that he is technically on a three month

FreshGrass, an aggressive new music festival launched last year at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, has acquired the Americana/folk publication, No Depression. No Depression began as a print journal in 1995, publishing bi-monthly with a focus on alt-country music.

Monroeville is on the verge of releasing their first full-length CD, Can't Put Me Out, due on April 1. The recently reformed outfit is still headed up by mandolinist/vocalist Matt Munsey, who produced and mixed the project at Hilltop Studios in Nashville.

There has been a good deal of excitement this past few weeks about the first-ever live performance of The Soggy Bottom Boys, the studio band that recorded Man Of Constant Sorrow for the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou

Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie will celebrate this month's release of their latest CD, Dancin' Annie, with a live radio broadcast tonight (3/21) on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. Emerson, of course, is a true legend in the banjo world, having performed as a

In further evidence that bluegrass is developing more of a cool factor, Belk department store chose Steep Canyon Rangers for a two-page spread in the Raleigh, NC newspaper this past Sunday. The guys were modeling attire from famous designers offered at

Bluegrass fans under the age of 50 could be excused for not understanding the crucial role radio played in the development of our music. Those under 30 won't even recall a time when their favorite music wasn't just a click

Dolly Parton is dipping another toe into the bluegrass market with her next CD, Blue Smoke. It doesn't appear to be a completely bluegrass record, like her 2001 release, Little Sparrow, but there are a couple of numbers that will