Bluegrass recording news

The folks at Pinecastle Music have graciously offered to share a live stream of the new CD from Nu-Blu, The Blu-Disc, with readers of The Bluegrass Blog. The album was released last week, the band's second, and their first with

Next Tuesday (8/16), IBMA will host another in its ongoing series of webinars for bluegrass professionals, this one specifically geared towards home recording enthusiasts. Recording Acoustic Instruments in your Home Studio will be led by Joe Weed, a producer, recording artist

Compass Records sent along a few behind-the-scenes photos from a video shoot last week for Dale Ann Bradley. It will result in a music video for Come Home Good Boy, the first single from her upcoming Somewhere South Of Crazy

Of all of the many mandolin masters that would be on a list of those to honor Bill Monroe in this, his centennial year, is Frank Wakefield. Wakefield hasn’t let us down, as I learned yesterday. A Tribute to Bill Monroe is

The August issue of Guitar Player magazine has bluegrass music's own Rob Ickes right there on the cover, where you'll more commonly find a metalhead with a threatening grimace. You can find the magazine on newsstands across the US, and

A first single from the upcoming Rebel release for Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice, The Heart Of A Song, can now be heard online. Junior hopes the new CD will be as well-received as his 2010 album, Heartaches and Dreams, which

Meet Dale Ann Bradley for the first time and five minutes later you feel like she’s an old friend. Somewhere South of Crazy, her upcoming release on Compass Records, delivers the same result. From the opening notes of Stuart Duncan’s

On March 31 we noted that the release of a box set of Carl Story recordings was to be released imminently. We are now pleased to be more precise and report that Carl Story Bluegrass, Gospel and Mountain Music 1942-1959, a

Tim and Danny Carter (The Carter Brothers), have come to an agreement with Compass Records, and will release their upcoming album on the Compass label. Tim shared a few details with us about this new project earlier this year. They had

Western Massachusetts' Acoustic Blue has released Timeless, their 4th album over the course of 8 years working together. It includes a number originals from band members, some familiar classics and a few songs that are not familiar to me. Corey Zink