Bluegrass recording news

Troy Engle is not just a crack correspondent for Bluegrass Today, and an experienced Nashville producer and engineer. He's also a talented bluegrass picker, singer and songwriter who has spent a good bit of his life as a touring sideman

On top of announcing a new band member yesterday, Claire Lynch also made audio available for a new song online. It's Heaven's Light, written with Steve Sheehan, which will be included on a Christmas project of hers in 2012. A lovely

Little Did They Know is latest Christmas single from the Rural Rhythm Christian label. It was written by IBMA-nominated songwriter Rick Lang, and produced by Stephen Mougin. The track features vocals by his wife Jana Mougin, formerly lead singer with the popular

Tributes to Bill Monroe continue into the new year with the January 31, 2012 release by ace guitarist Tony Rice, The Bill Monroe Collection (Rounder Records). The material, consisting of 14 songs and instrumentals by Monroe, was recorded by Rice in a

We caught up with Jim Hurst over the weekend, and he shared news about a new recording - welcome news to the many fans of this richly-awarded, highly-virtuosic guitarist. "Intrepid is in the final stages of release, and should be available

Just in time for the holidays, Mountain Fever Records has released Have A Merry Berry Christmas, the latest recording by Heather Berry. Featuring a mixture of bluegrass (Christmas Time's A Coming), pop (Blue Christmas, Pretty Paper), country (If We Make It Through December,

Each week, Daniel Mullins will reach back to the archives to highlight a past recording (at least 5 years old) which might have been missed by newer fans - or overlooked, or even forgotten by long time bluegrass lovers. He

More great bluegrass Christmas music from the now-famous Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. The picking' Mizzone boys have laid down a version of Jingle Bells using licks and phrases first popularized when their great-grandparents were young. It is available for sale online

The banjo/fiddle duet holds an iconic place in the history and development of bluegrass music. From the earliest days of Appalachian string music, a fiddle and a banjo was enough to set folks dancing, and as the style has evolved

Sammy Shelor, banjo player and leader of the Lonesome River Band, reports that plans are underway for the group to embark on an ambitious new recording project — a 30th anniversary retrospective that will have the group recording twenty-four songs, to be