Bluegrass recording news

Just six months after Dave Adkins and Republik Steele launched their successful debut album, That’s Just the Way I Roll, the Eastern Kentucky band is laying down tracks for a new CD. And they’re doing it for a different label,

Don't bring up religion or politics in polite company. That's what they always say. But Tennessee bluegrass singer/songwriter Mickey Boles is breaking both those rules in his new song, Music Politics. It examines the eternal question of who makes it in the

Close To Picture is a four track EP project from guitarists Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge, who have been touring together this summer. Eldridge is a progressive grasser, whose primary performance venue is Chris Thile's Punch Brothers. With the band on a

We all know about bluegrass, and have become accustomed more recently to jamgrass. But what about trashgrass? Well that's what Cincinnati's Rumpke Mountain Boys call their take on the music, and it served as the title of their debut CD in 2012.

Kentucky's Laurel River Line is set to release their second CD, On Down The Line, later this month and have a debut single to share in advance. Randy Jones, mandolinist with Lonesome River Band, produced the project which contains 13

Our Spanish bluegrass buddies, The Cubero Brothers (Los Hermanos Cubero), have released their latest album, Flor de canciones. Like their previous projects, it features brothers Roberto and Enrique Cubero performing their mix of traditional Iberian folk music with the mandolin and guitar techniques

Lonesome Day Records has announced the signing of Jeff Clair to the label, with a new project scheduled for next year. Clair's debut album, They Called Him Jesus, was released in late 2012. It was warmly greeted by fans of traditional

The Stevens Family made the hop across the mountain this week from West Virginia to southwest Virginia and the studios at Mountain Fever Records. There they signed a deal with the label and started work on a new album. Bass player

Lou Reid has announced that his 20th Anniversary album with Carolina is expected to hit in August. It's a live concert recording, captured in December of 2012 at the famed Down Home in Johnson City, TN, containing 12 tracks drawn

“I like air conditioning in my car! I like the Internet! I like an electronic tuner on my mandolin! You know, things that weren’t available back then. So I feel like in the studio there’s no difference,” Adam Steffey declares.