About Us

Bluegrass Lyrics is dedicated to providing lyrics and resources to traditional bluegrass enthusiasts, and we take pride in maintaining a site that is accurate, informative, and easy to use. Bluegrass Lyrics.com is and always will be entirely free and non-commercial. Let us know if you want to contribute, or have any questions or comments.

John Kael
The "founder" of Bluegrass Lyrics.com, John is responsible for the design and maintenance of the site, assembled the bulk of the content, and is also the one who theoretically answers all the email. John lives in Santa Cruz, California, and plays guitar, mandolin, banjo and bass. He played most recently with the Band "Roanoke", and can be heard on their album "Thoughts of Home". John is also a bluegrass songwriter, and his song "The Handmade Cross" was included on Doyle Lawson's latest release "Hard Game of Love" on Sugar Hill Records.

John plays out periodically, either with Annie Staninec or Deep Elem or whoever will have him

Ken Torke
Ken is a bluegrass mandolin player and general bluegrass enthusiast, and has contributed greatly to Bluegrass Lyrics.com. Ken was responsible for producing the database schema that now runs the site, and also for contributing many lyrics and corrections. He also, thankfully, provides ongoing tech support. Check out his opinions on the ultimate mandolin pick on his site www.mandoliner.com

Ken Torke has a bluegrass band called "The Mighty Crows"

Jack Tuttle
Jack has been a bluegrass institution in the California Bay Area for as long as anyone can remember. He has made his living teaching fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitar at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto for the last 20 years, and has also produced many excellent instructional books. He has contributed lyrics and corrections to the site as well, and has adopted many of the songs here for his tablature books for banjo, guitar, and mandolin. Check out his site at www.jacktuttle.com