Author: John Lawless

Timothy Goins, a bluegrass multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, died unexpectedly on the morning of July 10. He was 61 years of age. A native of western North Carolina, Tim was living in Virginia when he passed. He had learned to play taking

Many thanks to our friend Wayne Rice for sharing this interview he did in 1976 with a pre-teen Stuart Duncan. A number of southern California bluegrass legends turn up on this recording Wayne made of one of his first editions of

Pennsylvania's Colebrook Road has a music video for their current Mountain Fever Records single, Alone Again. The stark black & white video nicely captures the somber mood of the song, written by guitarist/vocalist Jesse Eisenbise, drawing on some of the darker

Pinecastle Records have a new single for North Carolina's Burnett Sisters, a somewhat somber ballad called The Song of the Mountains. It's a new generation's take on an ancient refrain, that folks moving from the city to what they see as

Anthony Mason with CBS television has been on a bluegrass roll of late, producing a delightful interview with Alison Krauss that ran on July 10 on CBS Mornings, and another with Molly Tuttle for CBS Saturday Morning's Saturday Session. The segment

To celebrate today's release of their new album, Southern Sunshine, our friends Williamson Branch have created a live firehouse video of one of the tracks, Firehawk, just for our readers. It's a rockin' fiddle tune written by Branch fiddler Melody Williamson

Mountain Fever Records has announced the signing of Kentucky's Throwdown Thursday band to the label, including several well-known bluegrass veterans. As the name suggests, the group began playing together as a weekly jam session during COVID, and once they recognized that

The Tennessee Bluegrass Band has a single to offer today, a new Tim Raybon song about the old homeplace, something everyone who has moved away from a rural family homestead can relate to right away. The group is helmed by young

Great news for bluegrass historians and collectors of early bluegrass recordings! The Bear Family label in Germany is preparing to release an important compilation CD box set encompassing all the records offered by Rich-R-Tone during the important post war period of

Grascals mandolinist Danny Roberts has a new tune to share, one he wrote called Leitchfield, his latest single for Mountain Home Music. In describing the track, Roberts addressed a common issue that confronts tunewriters - what to call a new composition