Bluegrass recording news

Hats off to Steve Martin, who won the Best Bluegrass Album award yesterday (1/31) at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards for The Crow - New Songs For The Five-String Banjo. It was a good day for banjo players overall at the

We just received this notice from Cort Riggs, son of Pinecastle Records and Music Shed founder Tom Riggs. Given recent events related to my father’s health and the current business environment, we find it necessary to cease operation of Pinecastle Records

For those interested in the process of recording bluegrass music, mic choice  and placement is an important key. Grammy Award winning producer and IBMA winning dobro player, Randy Kohrs recently recorded a short how-to video for Royer Labs on this

Great news for fans of Béla Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart CD, and his brother Sascha Palatino's accompanying film of the same name. Béla has released 14 new tracks that he recorded during his 2005 musical journey of discovery in the

Dualtone Records has announced that the next CD from Cadillac Sky, Letters In The Deep, will be released on the Nashville-based label in mid-2010. There has been a lot of buzz about this project, given the band's increasingly envelope-pushing repertoire, and

Here's another update from our friends Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen. The guys are currently in Nashville and working hard a new recording. They've graciously decided to give us all a window into the process. They're sending along updates every

California's Sawmill Road is in the studio this month as well, working on their third recording at Eric Uglum's New Wine Studios in Apple Valley. Despite a well-received showcase at IBMA in 2008, the band is not well known beyond the

The Snyder Family Band is the latest band to sign for Mountain Roads Recordings. The Lexington, North Carolina, based Snyder Family Band has recently signed for Mountain Roads Recordings, the Bristol, Tennessee, based label run by Karl and Gail Cooler. The family

The new CD from Randy Kohrs landed in my inbox a couple weeks ago, but I just found the time to listen to it recently. What a treat I had been denying myself! Randy and team have hit it out of

Bulagrian bluegrass songstress Lilly Drumeva has a new CD on Polysound Records. Lovin' You was recorded in both Bulgaria, with her band Lilly Of The West, and in Czech Republic, where she recorded with Czech grassers Monogram. The album features covers