Author: John Lawless

Irish-born bluegrass and Americana artist Danny Burns has created a special radio mix of one of the tracks on his recent Bonfire Music Group project, Southern Sky. It's for Does My Ring Burn Your Finger, written by Buddy Miller and Julie

Chris Davis, over two and a half decades in bluegrass music, has been the quintessential professional sideman. He's made his career alongside top touring artists and bands, helping them sound better on stage and in the studio, as a vocalist,

Mountain Home Music has released Working Man Blues, the opening track from their much-anticipated album for flatpick guitar maestro Bryan Sutton, From Roots to Branches. The theme of the project is Bryan paired up with a number of other

To celebrate their founding in 1975, Deering Banjos has created a highly ornate, 50th Anniversary Limited Edition model banjo. It's a strikingly beautiful instrument, made of high-grade curly maple with a bound ebony fingerboard and delicate, intricate fretboard inlays. Of course

From southwest England comes Rocking Horse Money, an interesting acoustic trio consisting of two well-known English grassers, Laura Carrivick on fiddle and reso-guitar and John Breese on bass, and an early rock 'n' roll enthusiast, Oliver Seymour. Laura tells us that

Across The Track, an active bluegrass band in the Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware region this past two decades, has announced that they are dissolving the group after a final performance on November 16. Band leaders James Langer (mandolin) and Darin Wassum

Mountain Fever Records has released a new single from Amanda Cook, whose seven-record deal with previous label head Mark Hodges has evolved into her buying the business and becoming its new owner. The song is Out of My Bones, written by

Iowa grasser Lori King has released a music video for her current single, Wherever You Are, a gospel song memorably recorded previously by The Collingsworth Family and The Martins. King pulled in Rhonda Vincent for the video, reprising her role singing

Fresh off the release of their new album, Safe Sensible and Sane, Steve Martin and Alison Brown took their twin banjo sound to the stage of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night. They performed the instrumental, Let's Get Out

For her birthday this month, perennial bluegrass hitmaker Irene Kelley thought that a bike ride through Cade's Cove in east Tennessee sounded like a perfect day out. Lovely fall scenery, and a near certainty of encountering deer in quantity, was