Bluegrass recording news

  • Getting Ready For A Baby from Volume Five

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    Mountain Fever Records has released a very advance single from a Christmas-themed album due in the Fall of 2013. It's a track from Volume Five, a new song from Jerry Salley called Getting Ready For A Baby. It's a lovely ballad telling

  • Déboucher – Swing 42

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    Spanish quartet Swing 42 has released a new album that mixes the traditions of bluegrass and manouche, the gypsy jazz style originated and popularized by Django Reinhardt in the 1930s. With tongue in cheek, they describe this hybrid sound as Gypsygrass and Blueswing. Déboucher

  • Night Drivers in the studio

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    Chris Jones & the Night Drivers have been in the studio finishing up a project for Rebel Records, expected by mid 2013. The record will include the two tracks Chris released as a digital 45 in September, If That Was Love,

  • Praise His Holy Name from Wayne Taylor

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    I've long understood that a military career shows you how to get things done, but former Navy bandsman Wayne Taylor may be working on a new bluegrass record. Over the past 6-8 weeks, he has conceived an album project, written

  • Nathan Stanley heading to the studio

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    Nathan Stanley, grandson of Dr. Ralph, has big plans for the month of December. He has his first headlining turn with the Clinch Mountain Boys in Pigeon Forge, TN, and will begin work in the studio for a new solo

  • Banjo in New York City?

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    That's right folks, there is banjo music in the Big Apple. But you already knew that (didn't you?). Well, here's another NYC banjo story. It involves Bennett Sullivan, a transplanted Tar Heel now plying the five string trade in the Big

  • Home Grown Christmas from Sweet Potato Pie

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    Mountain Fever Records has released their second Christmas CDs in as many years. In 2011 there was Heather Berry's Have A Berry Merry Christmas, and for Christmas 2012, Sweet Potato Pie offers Home Grown Christmas, released November 12. The album contains a baker's dozen

  • Live album coming from Pert Near Sandstone

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    This past weekend, Pert Near Sandstone recorded a show for a live album, set for an early 2013 release. First Avenue in Minneapolis was the site for the November 9 concert. The band plans to mix the tracks in December, and have the

  • Darin & Brooke live – and on the radio

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    Darin and Brooke Aldridge have a new CD due to hit November 20 on Mountain Home Music. The title, Live at Red, White and Bluegrass! pretty much gives the game away. It was recorded this past summer at the RW&BG festival Morganton,

  • Fiddler Tim Smith & Friends

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    North Carolina fiddler Tim Smith has released a new album, titled simply Fiddler Tim Smith & Friends. Smith has quite a bluegrass pedigree, having worked for three years with The Bluegrass Cardinals, and with five previous solo projects to his credit.