Author: John Lawless

John "Buckwheat" Green, who as we reported on Monday suffered a heart attack over the past weekend, went in for bypass surgery yesterday afternoon. Buck is the bass player with Jim & Valerie Gabehart, based in West Virginia. He is

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with the Bluegrass Weather Report for this weekend, looking at the Wayne Taylor Homecoming Bluegrass Festival in Maiden, NC.  

Mountain Fever Records has released a single today from its upcoming 20th Anniversary project from Darrell Webb. The theme of the album, produced by Jim VanCleve, is reuniting Webb with the many artists with whom he has toured and recorded over

We heard this morning from our friend Tim White, host of the PBS television series Song Of The Mountains, with some sad news about an iconic bluegrass performer from southwestern Virginia. "Larry McPeak of the legendary McPeak Brothers and original member

The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet has announced that guitarist and vocalist Kevin Williamson is leaving the band at the end of the year. The Quartet works a very busy schedule, and Kevin has a young family at home. He also works

Steve Dilling, who has spent the past 21 years playing banjo with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, told the band this past weekend that he wants to give up the road life, and handed in his notice. The band typically

Nominees have been announced for the 35th Annual Central Canadian Bluegrass Awards, to be held later this month at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, ON (2 hours north of Toronto). Voting for nominees and winners is limited to members of the

We've learned that Danny Paisley suffered a pair of heart attacks over this past two weeks, and is now awaiting word from his physician about how to treat the blockages that were discovered in his arteries. Danny told us this morning

John Green, bass player with Jim & Valerie Gabehart, is hospitalized in the Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, WV after suffering a heart attack on Friday night. Green, who formerly played with Lonesome River Band, is known to friends

Here is Gina Proulx’s final photo gallery from the 2013 Festy, featuring the festival's gracious hosts, The Infamous Stringdusters, including a few of the 'Dusters jamming with legendary guitarist John Scofield.