Bluegrass recording news

After this weekend's news about the formation of The Boxcars, one big question remained. The new band grabbed Keith Garrett and Harold Nixon from Blue Moon Rising to join Ron Stewart, Adam Steffey and John Bowman - leaving Chris West

Forever Yours is a new CD from The Hagar's Mountain Boys, winners of the bluegrass band championship at the 2009 RenoFest. These boys have been busy - this is their third release since forming in 2006. Their sound is aggressive and

We have posted a few time previously about Summertown Road, a new band composed of veteran pickers and singers from the bluegrass state of Kentucky. The group consists of Jack Hicks on banjo, John Rigsby on fiddle, Bo Issac on guitar

Two new singles are being promoted this week to bluegrass radio. Last Thing On His Mind comes from Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and will be featured on their upcoming Gospel CD, due from Crossroads in January 2010. Performing and recording with the

Banjo CDs are coming out of the woodwork, it seems. Just in the past few weeks, we have received stellar releases from Dan Menzone, Jessie Baker and Chris Warner. Each is distinctive in its own way, and all should have

Thomas Wywrot is about to release a self-produced solo project, Every Time I Walk This Road. The album has a modern, in-your-face bluegrass sound with Wywrot's banjo and guitar prominent in the mix. A Canadian by birth, he grew up in

Mountain Roads Recordings has announced the signing of Rich In Tradition, a quintet from the Galax, Virginia/Mt Airy, North Carolina, region. The group has already made its mark by providing the backbone in the studio for the recording of the

Rounder Records has recently re-released a classic album from 1973, Fire On The Mountain by Highwoods String Band. This LP, and the band that recorded it, had a powerful impact on the early '70s old time scene, helping to transform

Country crooner Dierks Bentley tells Vernell Hackett of The Boot that he plans to record a bluegrass album during 2010. Bentley has a long history of including bluegrass music on his chart-topping releases, and has collaborated several times with The Grascals

Sugar Hill Records has just released a download-only album in iTunes which consists of the Top 50 tracks from their deep catalog of bluegrass and Americana music. Members of the Sugar Hill staff chose the songs for this collection, which