Bluegrass recording news

Rock Ridge is a new group in Northern California, with a debut CD to share. Drifter's Prayer is their first release, spearheaded by Rick and Josie Grant. He's on mandolin and she's on guitar, with both trading off on lead and

Cheryl Watson is a bluegrass singer, songwriter and instrumentalist in central Florida with a new CD of her original music. Watertown contains 13 tracks, 12 of them Watson's, plus a version of Beaumont Rag. Cheryl plays mandolin and sings lead with

Northern Virginia-based Shenandoah Drive has a new CD of hard-driving bluegrass, both new and familiar. Old Dirt Road features the music of Danny Seabolt on guitar, Chris King on banjo, Dave Kirk on mandolin, and Gary Creed on bass. All four

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