Author: John Lawless

Things were hopping in the lobby of the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville last night here at SPBGMA. We caught Dave Adkins & Republik Steele in a lobby alcove performing their current single, The Way I Roll.  

On Thursday at SPBGMA, Rhonda Vincent shared a fun story from the Twitterverse. As her fans well understand, Rhonda is a tireless proponent of social media, spending bus and plane time updating her Facebook and Twitter feeds, sharing her travels with

Travis Book, bassist and vocalist with The Infamous Stringdusters, and his wife, singer and songwriter Sarah Siskind, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Ruby Dell Book was born on Thursday morning (1/31) at 4:10 a.m. (EST), weighing in at

The Boxcars, two-time and reigning IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year, have recently completed recording for their next project, due this Spring from Mountain Home. The band's even more lavishly award-winning mandolinist, Adam Steffey, suggests that if you enjoyed their first

A pair of East Tennessee grassers, Wendy Crowe and Jonathan Maness, have joined forces in a new group called WestWend. The two met by chance at a radio show in 2011, just as Wendy was set to start work on a debut recording.

Attention songwriters... If you would like to have one of your songs considered for the 2013 Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest, you'll need to get your application in by February 19. The competition is open to any songwriter whose income in

The Rambling Rooks, the new special project band featuring Ronnie Bowman, Don Rigsby and Kenny Smith, have a free download offer for bluegrass lovers. It's a track from their upcoming album, a Ronnie Bowman and Shawn Camp song called Looking For

Rhonda Vincent is using the occasion of this week's SPBGMA convention in Nashville to release a new single from her next album. The song is a Larry Cordle/Lionel Delmore song, I'd Rather Hear I Don't Love You (Than Nothing At All),

Bluegrass Today will have a presence at this year's annual convention of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America. There will be live concerts, showcase stages, a banjo workshop, a band competition, and the annual SPBGMA awards presentations over

We've had Grasstowne and Monroeville, and now we have another bluegrass destination to add to our itinerary... Hammertowne. This new group of five veteran Kentucky pickers and singers has completed their first album, and signed this week with Mountain Fever Records,