Bluegrass recording news

Regarding the upcoming Chris Thile & Michael Daves duo project we mentioned yesterday... Nonesuch is giving away a free track in exchange for your email address, Chris and Micheal's frenetic take on My Little Girl In Tennessee, famously recorded previously by

Mountain Soul is a new young band based in Knoxville, TN. It's members have pretty solid resumes, showing time spent with The Grasshoppers, Lovell Sisters, Larkin Poe, Valerie Smith, Dixie Bee-Liners, Robinella and The Watkins Family. Daniel Kimbo plays bass, Jonathan

The Grascals have been out of late in support of their current album, The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin, which finds them teamed up with major country artists like Dolly Parton, Brad Paisely and Dierks Bentley.

Chris Thile has engendered minor controversy in the bluegrass community since he began to veer off the main road with Nickel Creek in 2002. Rightly celebrated as an enfant terrible in the '90s, Thile's unpredictable musical adventures often left his

Adventurous acoustic/alt-grassers Milk Drive are set to release The Road From Home, their first studio album, on April 5. This young Austin-based band includes Noah Jeffries on guitar, Dennis Ludiker on mandolin, Brian Beken on fiddle/vocals, and Matt Medford on bass.

We posted last week about Retroactive, the debut CD from The VW Boys, released earlier this week. The trio from East Tennesee has also created a video to introduce themselves to new fans, and share a few of the songs included

Today's the day! Our brand spanking new Bluegrass Blog theme song, The Speed Of Bluegrass, is now available as a digital single from iTunes or Amazon.com. We commissioned Jim VanCleve last year to compose a tune that would exemplify what we

The debut single from Monroeville, which we indicated on Monday would be available before the end of March, was actually released today (3/22). It's their version of the old time favorite, Country Blues, which the guys initially offer in an older,

Traveling this past weekend, I spent almost 8 hours on the road. Much of it was taken up in careful, repeated listening to Paper Airplane, the upcoming project from Alison Krauss & Union Station. You won't be shocked to learn

Wow... lots of new releases to note for March 22. What is it about the end of March? Rural Rhythm Records has three projects that hit today. I'm sure that we will have more to say about each of them, but