Bluegrass recording news

This week's edition of Track-By-Track with Kyle Cantrell will feature Alecia Nugent and her superb new CD, Hillbilly Goddess. She will discuss each track with Kyle as they play through the entire album. The show can be heard on Sirius-XM, and

Just in time for the big festivals in California this weekend, Golden Staters Sawmill Road announce the release of their second CD, Fire On The Kettle. The band, made up of five experienced west coast pickers, was a big hit at

Reso-guitar mega-monster Rob Ickes has a new CD, focusing on his musical life outside of bluegrass and Blue Highway. Road Song is a collaboration with jazz pianist Michael Alvey on a set of piano/dobro duets, with Robinella providing vocals on three

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