• Sierra Hull back in the studio

    Sierra Hull is spending this early part of 2013 tracking for her third Rounder Records album. They are recording at Ben Folds' Studio, the old RCA Studio A, designed by Chet Atkins in 1964. Vance Powell is engineering. In just the few

  • Boxcars looking forward to 3rd CD

    The Boxcars, two-time and reigning IBMA Instrumental Group of the Year, have recently completed recording for their next project, due this Spring from Mountain Home. The band's even more lavishly award-winning mandolinist, Adam Steffey, suggests that if you enjoyed their first

  • Free download from The Rambling Rooks

    The Rambling Rooks, the new special project band featuring Ronnie Bowman, Don Rigsby and Kenny Smith, have a free download offer for bluegrass lovers. It's a track from their upcoming album, a Ronnie Bowman and Shawn Camp song called Looking For

  • Hammertowne to Mountain Fever

    We've had Grasstowne and Monroeville, and now we have another bluegrass destination to add to our itinerary... Hammertowne. This new group of five veteran Kentucky pickers and singers has completed their first album, and signed this week with Mountain Fever Records,

  • Idletymes to Poor Mountain Records

    Poor Mountain Records has announced the signing of West Virginia's Idletymes. The band consists of Chris Long on guitar, Craig Jarvis on bass, Glenn Jarvis on fiddle, and Ronnie Seebaugh on banjo. They will start work shortly on a new project for Poor

  • Steve & Edie ride again

    Not that Steve & Eydie... We're talking Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. It's a safe assumption that our readers are well familiar with Steve Martin, both from his star turns in comedy and film, and his new-found career as a performing/recording

  • Carl Jackson Gospel guitar CD

    If you've been following bluegrass as long as your humble correspondent, you'll have watched Carl Jackson go from a skinny kid playing banjo with Jim & Jesse as a teenager in the late 1960s, to one of the most respected

  • Tone Poems – Deluxe Edition

    David Grisman and his Acoustic Oasis label have just released a digital Deluxe Edition of his classic Tone Poems album, recorded as a set of instrumental duets with Tony Rice in 1993. This was a concept project at the time, designed