Author: John Lawless

David Adkins performs at a cancer benefit at the Shrine Park in Olive Hill, KY - photo © Styx Hicks Here's another example of how quickly bluegrass folks respond to tragedy, taking it upon themselves to help others in need. Carol Clevenger

Irish-born bluegrass artist Danny Burns, who puts the grit in gritty and the gin in ginger, has a real hit on his hands in Blue Ridge Blue. The song has spent the past five weeks on our Bluegrass Today Weekley

Bonfire Music Group has shared a new single from Shawn Lane & Richard Bennett, taken from their current EP, 1682. Interestingly, given the theme of most of the songs, and the fact that all the others were written by Lane and

Bluegrass band from Kobe University at KazCamp 2025 - photo courtesy of Kazuhiro Inaba Kazuhiro Inaba has sent along a brief report with some photos and video from his annual bluegrass festival in Osaka, Japan. The all-day event always draws bluegrass

We all know the story of Pretty Polly, and her ill-fated decision to go along with Little Willie into the forest, where he took her life for refusing to honor his unseemly request. Perhaps the definitive murder ballad in Appalachian

The 2025 Youth in Bluegrass Competition, hosted by the Ozark Mountain Music Association, was held this past Saturday, May 17, in Branson, MO. The long-running band contest, originally run by Silver Dollar City and KSMU radio, is open to bluegrass

Rebel Records has released a music video to accompany their current single for Rrinaco, Get Along Somehow. This oddly-named outfit is a side project of Corrina Rose Logston-Stephens, she of High Fidelity. Since the band has a very specific concept that

Bluegrass veteran Don Rigsby has a retrospective collection on the way from Rebel Records, which includes one new track, serving as a single just released on Friday. The "best of" compilation, Kentucky Troubadour: The Rebel Collection, is due May 30, with

Adam McIntosh, of Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, shared some lovely photos of their youngest son, JJ, who has just been formally adopted as a member of the family. He first came to them two and a half years

Inspired by our recent coverage of several music scholarships for young students of bluegrass music, we heard last week from Terry Mandell, wife of the late Steve Mandell of Dueling Banjos fame, with an update on the similar fund that