Bluegrass recording news

Rural Rhythm is preparing a new all-star project for a February 12 release. God Didn't Choose Sides offers 13 tracks, each a new composition dealing with stories and characters from the US Civil War, picked and sung by a who's who of

You might not expect the 7-time IBMA Vocal Group of the Year to put out a collection that includes covers of songs from everybody from John Denver to The Platters, but that’s just exactly what Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme

Marty Raybon also has a new single this week, That Janie Baker, a song he wrote with John Fountain. It will be included on his next Rural Rhythm album, The Back Forty, an all-bluegrass project due for a March release. Marty

Just about a year ago, Dale Pyatt recorded a song he wrote with Charlie Hall, celebrating the illustrious career of Secretariat, perhaps the most celebrated race horse in the 20th century. It was initially available only through The Secretariat Foundation,

Mark Newton and Steve Thomas are the latest artists to be signed by Pinecastle Records, it has been announced today. A new duo project, Reborn, is scheduled for an April 9 release. Both of these fine musicians have enjoyed a long

Today (1/8/13) marks the season premiere of Justified, one of the few television dramas I follow week to week. I discovered the show two years ago quite by chance, when an episode began after something else I had on. In

We posted last summer about plans by Ken Scoggins & Millers Creek to finish a new Gospel album they expect to release on Old Homestead Records this year. Ken shared with us recently that after getting started at Tom T. Hall's studio

I had a lovely chat recently with Pete Goble, one of the most prolific songwriters we have in bluegrass music, and a man who has "been there, done that" as far as most any aspect of bluegrass in the latter

Since taking his leave from Lou Reid & Carolina in July of 2012, Shannon Slaughter has been hard at work on a new project with his wife, Heather. They are settled now in Alabama, and have been working with their

Since Bluegrass Today launched in September 2011, one of the more popular features on the site has been our radio airplay chart. It is published both weekly and monthly, showing which songs received the most spins as reported by more than