Bluegrass recording news

Kenny Smith shares some thoughts about his upcoming instrumental album on Gat 3 Records in this new video, which also includes comments from Adam Steffey, Barry Bales and Glenn Tabor of Gat 3. This all-instrumental project will be his first guitar

The first single from The Expedition Show, the self-titled debut album from...  you guessed it... The Expedition Show, has been sent to radio. The full CD is set for a February 28 release on Mountain Fever Records. The group features Blake

Rebel Records has released a promo video in advance of Ralph Stanley's upcoming Gospel album, A Mother's Prayer. In it, both Ralph and his road manager and long time Clinch Mountain Boys guitarist James Alan Shelton discuss the good Doctor's work

When Pinecastle Records went down this time last year, we mourned most particularly for its impact on Josh Williams' excellent CD Down Home, which virtually disappeared after the label folded. The record had been scheduled for release in February 2010, precisely

Tim Shelton checked in yesterday with some further details about the upcoming NewFound Road CD, Live At The Down Home. It was... wait for it... recorded live at The Down Home in Johnson City, TN on December 4. Rounder Records has

Also completing a solo project for a Spring release is flatpicker extraordinaire Kenny Smith. The as-yet untitled album will be released on the new label recently founded by Gat3 studios, where Kenny has been recording since his departure from Lonesome

We have news today on upcoming projects from two of the most celebrated instrumentalists in contemporary bluegrass. First up is In A Groove, a solo record from Terry Baucom, his first such effort after more than 30 years as a bluegrass

Johnny Warren and Charlie Cushman are finishing up a second album in tribute to Johnny's dad, Paul Warren, long time fiddler with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. Like the first project, A Tribute To Fiddlin' Paul Warren,

Rural Rhythm Records has this week released the debut, self-titled album from Kentucky's Josh Slone & Coaltown. The band is fronted by guitarist and lead vocalist Slone, supported by Billy Berger on mandolin, Ollie Risner on banjo, and Gary Wiley on

Another release from 2010 that we wanted to note is Stronger Every Day from Driftwood, a Kentucky quartet with strong family roots. The band was founded by brothers Scott and Charles Fields, and named in honor of their father, Wayne. Fields