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Rural Rhythm announces Rural Roots Digital
Rural Rhythm Records is launching a new series of classic bluegrass reissues for online download which they are calling Rural Roots Digital. The first two re-releases include timeless albums from Red Smiley and The Bluegrass Cutups, and fiddler Curly Fox. When Sam Pasamano purchased Rural [...]
Behind The Dream – Darrell Webb
Rural Rhythm has begun releasing editions of their BlueHighways TV show, Behind The Dream, as online videos. The half hour program debuted last Fall, with Mike Scott serving as host. Each episode features a Rural Rhythm artist, combining one-on-one interviews with both live and studio video [...]
God Didn’t Choose Sides
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 contemporary bluegrass artists. The fascination [...]
Bluegrass Comes To The Valley taping tomorrow
When the Passamano family moved from their homes in southern California to Nashville to relocate Rural Rhythm Records last year, they gave two specific reasons. One, and most obviously, was to be closer to the artists whose music they release, and the other to work [...]
Sales Up? Bluegrass labels say yes, but…
As we mentioned in our introductory piece on this topic last Wednesday, music sales figures for 2011 gave the record industry its first reason to smile in several years – even if only Mona Lisa-style. After many years of steady declines, total sales of recorded [...]
Bill Monroe tribute – Live at Bean Blossom
Bill Monroe’s 100th year celebration continues with the release on November 22 of the Rural Rhythm Records album Bill Monroe 100th Year Celebration – Live at Bean Blossom. The commemorative album was recorded during the 45th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, at [...]
Marty Raybon to Rural Rhythm
It’s often said that the annual World Of Bluegrass convention in Nashville is primarily about the business of bluegrass music, and our experience this year has once again shown that to be true. IBMA week provides a great opportunity for networking, dealmaking and negotiations with [...]
First single from Prime Tyme
Rural Rhythm released the first single from Prime Tyme, the 16th album from Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out over their 20 year tenure, back in March of this year. The song, If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again, was written by Mark [...]
Rural Rhythm and Blue Highways TV
In our Monday post about Rural Rhythm Records moving their operation from Los Angeles to Nashville, company President Sam Passamano alluded to some new media opportunities for their artists that would be announced soon. Soon was right. Rural Rhythm announced yesterday that it would be [...]
Rural Rhythm heads east
California-based Rural Rhythm Records has been one of the more aggressive labels in the bluegrass world of late, signing artists and releasing new projects with impressive frequency. It’s a family business, managed by the gregarious patriarch, Sam Passamano, with assistance from his daughters Jennifer and [...]
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