Author: John Lawless

Earlier this month, the nominees for the 43rd annual Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association were announced. Bluegrass Gospel is always given its due from the GMA, with a pair of awards specific to our genre. Nominees for 2012 in

Acoustic Endeavors has released the second of four 5-song digital albums, celebrating the band's 20 years of recording and performing original bluegrass music. In what is becoming more common each year, they have chosen to pop out four of these

As we reported yesterday, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver were feted Monday afternoon in the Tennessee State Senate with a resolution honoring Doyle, his current band and their manager, Josh Trivett, for the band's many contributions to bluegrass Gospel music over

The stage at this past weekend's Wintergrass festival in Tacoma, WA was the setting for the official announcement that Chris Luquette was the new, full-time guitarist with Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen. Solivan shared the news with us, emailing from the plane

Crossroads Music will release the latest in a long string of bluegrass Gospel albums from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver on March 20. This newest, Sing Me A Song About Jesus, offers 11 new songs from Doyle and the boys, all performed

Rob McCoury is spending his Monday at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. After suffering a fall over the holidays, he developed a blood clot in his leg which had grown to a size that required surgical intervention. The procedure was done

We had extensive coverage last week of the momentous tribute offered to mandolin legend Herschel Sizemore at a benefit concert in Roanoke, VA on February 19. The show featured performances by artists as diverse as Punch Brothers and Seldom Scene,

Steep Canyon Rangers have created a video entry for the Dead Covers Project. Grateful Dead fans are invited to submit videos of themselves performing a Dead song during the month of February. Five fan favorites will be selected in March, and be

Canada's Spinney Brothers have a new single, the title track from their upcoming Memories album, due March 13 on Mountain Fever Records. The group is fronted by Allan Spinney on guitar and brother Rick on banjo, singing in the classic brother

Mountain Home has released a brief video showing Kristin Scott Benson tracking banjo in the studio on the song Pretty Melody. It's one that will be included on the next record from The Grascals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jAXqY7Xvv8