Author: John Lawless

Angus Gill is a successful Australian country singer and songwriter, now playing his trade in Nashville, with a new single that reimagines a New Zealand pop hit from the '80s as a bluegrass number. In fact, his upcoming album, Postcards,

The Music We Call Country, a one-hour documentary film about the earliest days of commercial country music, is now available for streaming or purchase from Amazon Prime. Produced by Marshall Hunter and Noble Giant Films, the documentary traces what we would

One of the best things about small town America, and something well worth preserving, is the quaint downtowns or city centers that still exist in small communities all across the country. Even when big box stores and online retailers have

Mountain Home Music has a new single for Unspoken Tradition coming out tomorrow, and has offered our readers a premiere this morning. It's a story born of the flooding disaster experienced where they live in western North Carolina, and repeated

Earlier this month, Carolina Detour was chosen as the winner of the Rising Stars Challenge at Blue Highway Fest 2025. This band of young grassers from central and western North Carolina had been runners up in the competition last year,

Sad news for live bluegrass lovers in central New York. The Brantling Bluegrass Festival, operated this past 16 years at the Brantling Ski Slopes in Sodus, NY, has been closed down by its promoters. Beginning in 2009, they have sought to

Asheville, NC's Songs From The Road Band is sharing a new single this month, another track from their upcoming full-length release. A songwriters' effort from their inception, this latest, Halfway Home, comes from two founding members of the group. All five

The latest single from The Steve Bruce Band, family and friends of the banjo pickin' pastor from LaFollette, TN, is a gospel number that was popularized by Alison Krauss & Union Station. Heaven's Bright Shore was recorded by Krauss on her

From Birmingham, AL comes Mountain Grass Unit, a fresh and highly-talented young bluegrass/jamgrass quartet. They have earned a fine reputation and a legion of new fans through extensive touring this year, though the four have been friends for years. Drury Anderson

John Meyer, one half of the bluegrass act Pitney Meyer, and his wife Kourtney, are celebrating the birth of their third child. Aidan John Meyer made his arrival on October 9, joining older siblings Zane and Lilly in the Meyer household. John