Bluegrass recording news

Ohio's Jett's Creek is the latest bluegrass act to offer a Christmas single. Theirs is From My Broken Heart to You, a melancholy Christmas song of loss and loneliness. Does that make it the perfect bluegrass Christmas song? But seriously... The

This week's edition of Into The Blue, produced and voiced by award-winning broadcaster Terry Herd, will feature interviews with Carl Jackson and Mark Newton. They join Terry to discuss All Star Jam - Live At Grave's Mountain, recorded during the

The singing Johnson sisters, i.e., England's Toy Hearts, have released the first single from their new Femme Fatale CD. It's the title track, in a special radio edit, offered for sale as a digital download through iTunes. Femme Fatale features Toy

We told you last month about NewFound Road's plans to cut a live album on December 4 at The Down Home in Johnson City, TN. Now comes word that their live show that night will also be captured on video,

Things are moving ever more in a holiday direction here at Bluegrass Today. We'll all be celebrating Thanksgiving with our families this week, after which the official secular celebration of Christmas cranks into overdrive. And what a treat this year that

The folks at Mountain Home/Crossroads have a special digital release of Christmas music featuring three of their top bluegrass artists. These are all new recordings which can be purchased for download either individually, or as an album. A Mountain Home Christmas

It is sadly often the case that stellar recordings by "unknown" artists can languish in obscurity while good, but not spectacular, releases from headline acts receive fawning attention from the music press. On some level, a complaint like this is

"Bluegrass. Not that hybrid, genre bending acoustic music, but authentic, hard-edged bluegrass. Real songs of heartache, pain and tragedy..." That's how Travers Chandler & Avery County describe their music. Ouch - sounds pretty hard core! But they mean what they say, and

This week saw the release of Untapped Routes from Sweden's G2, an occasion which led to them being offered the opportunity to perform on Bingolotto, the Kingdom's top game show on national television. Banjo picker Jens Koch tells us that the

Bluegrass/Americana songstress Valerie Smith has a new single, just in time for Christmas. Convenient that, seeing as how it's a Christmas song! Send Yourself Home For Christmas harkens back to the sort of songs popular around the holidays during WWII and