Bluegrass recording news

Alison Krauss & Union Station are giving away a free MP3 of the title track from their upcoming Rounder CD, Paper Airplane. All it will cost you is your name and email address so they can contact you when the album

Jerry Butler & the Blu J's have much to celebrate this week. Their new CD, Stranger In My Own Hometown, is out on Blue Circle Records. This is the first release Butler with his band, but not his first recording. He

Pinecastle Records has announced the newest band to be signed to the label. Town Mountain hails from Asheville, NC, but has been touring other areas of the country since 2005, when they won the band competition at the Rockygrass festival

We've written many times about talented Swedish bluegrass bands like G2, Cold Mountain Band, Downtown Ramblers and others who perform and record at home and beyond. Now we have news about a new CD from The Rockridge Brothers, an old time

Sierra Hull will be a guest on Lonesome Pine RFD with Carol Beaugard on WFDU Friday morning (2/25) at 11:00 a.m. (EST). Carol tells us that she and Sierra will talk about Hull's upcoming CD, Daybreak, and play some of the

Rounder Records is set to release A Bluegrass Gospel Songbook on March 1, 2011. No, it's not an actual book, it's a CD. The disc features 13 tracks from some of the most loved bluegrass artists of recent years. There's not

Mountain Faith, a young family bluegrass Gospel group from western North Carolina, has signed on with Mountain Home Music to release a new album in May of 2011. The band consists of proud papa Sam McMahan on bass, along with his

Sierra Hull has a number of major milestones coming up this year. On March 8, Daybreak, her sophomore CD from Rounder Records is set to hit, and she is currently at work in Tennessee on her first music video in

Popular Virginia group Nothin' Fancy was among the many recording acts left homeless when Pinecastle Records closed their doors a year ago. They are happy to announce today that they expect to shortly sign with the Virginia Dreams label, based

Mike Scott is known to most bluegrass fans as a banjo picker, having spent lengthy stints with Danny Davis & The Nashville Brass, Jim & Jesse and Ronnie Reno. But Scott is also a talented vocalist and songwriter with a