Bluegrass recording news

Phil Bankester, peré of the lovely and talented Bankester family, has agreed to provide a running blogumentary of their home recording sessions this week. We're all exhausted after a very long but really great day. Last night we pushed as hard as

Phil Bankester, peré of the lovely and talented Bankester family, has agreed to provide a running blogumentary of their home recording sessions this week. Day 4 was interesting. We worked on the fastest track on the CD, and it was a real

Tom Mindte of Patuxent Music sent along these photos of Danny Paisley in the studio with the Southern Grass, taken by Michael G. Stewart. They are tracking this week for a new album to be released on Pauxent later this year.

Bulgarian folk and bluegrass singer Lilly Drumeva has defied stylistic pigeon-holing since she first came to attention with her band, Lilly of the West, in 1996. Over the course of 9 albums, her music has  involved elements of country, bluegrass, swing, jazz,

Phil Bankester, peré of the lovely and talented Bankester family, has agreed to provide a running blogumentary of their home recording sessions this week. We’ve finished day three, with a much greater sense of accomplishment. We’re half-way through the six days that

One of the most talked about recording projects of 2011 was the combining of acoustic greats Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, and Edgar Meyer for their Goat Rodeo Sessions. It’s not straight bluegrass, but it’s not straight anything else

Phil Bankester, peré of the lovely and talented Bankester family, has agreed to provide a running blogumentary of their home recording sessions this week. Day two didn’t seem as productive as day one. We tracked instruments on two songs, vocals on one,

Sugar Hill Records has announced that they will re-release the classic Skaggs & Rice album on vinyl as part of their annual celebration of Record Store Day on April 12. This 1980 recording from Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice has been

Phil Bankester, peré of the lovely and talented Bankester family, has agreed to provide a running blogumentary of their home recording sessions this week. This is the first installment of a series of blogs that we hope will be informative and

It wasn't too many years ago that the concept of a “band" began to change from simplistic to more complicated definitions. In fact, at the turn of the last century, many individuals would have considered the act of two people