Author: John Lawless

Hide your grandpas... the mountain twerking Granny is on the loose! The music video for Mountain Twerker, a single recently released by The Darrell Brothers, is now available as well. It tells the story of their dear old Granny, who the

Kentucky's Velvet Blue has released a debut music video from their new CD, Memories & Heartaches. It's for the song Once For Sadie, written by band members Brian Cooper, Carrie Johnson and Taylor Hampton. Cooper is on guitar and lead vocal,

Close observers of the acoustic music scene will have noted growth this past few years in a fairly new offshoot of bluegrass music. So new that it doesn't yet have its own subgeneric classification. Unlike the jam grass scene, its practitioners

2014 will bring a very different look for Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out. In addition to last week's announcement that banjo player Steve Dilling would be leaving at the end of this year, Moore has announced today that bass player

Chicago's Henhouse Prowlers are on their way to Africa for a month of shows, after a couple of days early this week in Washington, DC for orientation. They were chosen for this tour by the American Voices program on behalf of the

Music lovers of a certain age will recall a British duet team called Peter & Gordon who had a number of hit songs during the mid-to-late 1960s. Their first big number was with a song Paul McCartney wrote as a

Bluegrass Valley and Mansion Entertainment have announced the release this week of several new bluegrass Christmas songs. Two of these are distributed exclusively to radio for use during the rapidly approaching holiday season, and one will be available for download

Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road have released a music video for That's Kentucky, the #1 hit song from their current self-titled album on Pinecastle Records. It's a catchy song from Tom T. Hall, Troy Engle, and Dixie Hall that has spent

Jonathan Buckner, guitarist and vocalist with Chosen Road, and President of Poor Mountain Records, has announced a merger between his label and Verb Records, resulting in the creation of Merit Music Group. In addition to the two record companies, Merit

Mountain Fever has released a debut single from the upcoming self-titled album by Ash Breeze, formerly The Smith Family Band. The group includes siblings Corey Smith on guitar, Nellie Smith on fiddle, Luke Smith on banjo, and Eli Smith on mandolin, along