Bluegrass recording news

Multiple Grammy winners Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer have a new CD, an 8 song EP collaboration with beatbox artist Christylez Bacon. The album is titled Banjo To Beatbox, and is Cathy and Marcy's latest collection of children's songs, performed

Another new Rebel release from last month is In God's Time from Barry Scott & Second Wind. This project had been released as a self-produced CD last year, available only from the band, and Rebel picked it up when Scott signed

One of the recent new releases from Rebel Records is Mac Wiseman's Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs (REB CD 7523). The 14 recordings in this collection came about due to the mutually beneficial liaison during the mid-1970s between Lou Ukelson, owner of

Flatpicking Bluegrass is the latest CD from FGM Records, the label branch of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. The CD features 12 flatpicking masters on 12 traditional bluegrass numbers. These are all vocal tunes, no instrumentals here. According to Dan Miller, publisher

Here is a cute video from Reed KD from his new album, In Case The Comet Comes. Reed is a young singer-songwriter from California with folk and bluegrass influences in his pop-oriented music. The video is for the song Cactus Garden,

The Two High String Band from Austin, TX has a new lineup, and a new CD, to announce to the world. Hot Texas Burrito will hit in July, featuring new band members Alan Munde on banjo and Mark Rubin on bass.

We haven't yet had a chance to comment on Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, the new CD from the band of the same name. It's their first full length studio CD in five years, and their first with a

Last Monday (6/1), we ran the first half of our preview of the new Rhonda Vincent CD, Destination Life, ahead of its release on June 16. We included Rhonda's personal thoughts and comments about the first six tracks, plus a

Don't Turn Your Back, the latest release from Dale Ann Bradley, has already become one of my favorite releases of 2009. It is full of terrific songs, played by a solid group of backing musicians, transparently recorded at Compass Studios... 

Cadillac Sky is putting the finishing touches on a new CD, an EP release called The Weary Angel. It will include four tracks featuring the C-Sky boys and a couple of guest artists. Two of the songs are C-Sky remakes of