Bluegrass recording news

Tomorrow, March 31, is the release date for the long-anticipated second CD from Dailey & Vincent, Brothers From Different Mothers. Following up a successful debut project is always tricky, with expectations from fan, media and industry all setting a high bar.

Host Bob Webster will feature an interview with bluegrass legend Bobby Osborne on this week's (3/29) edition of Stained Glass Bluegrass on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. Osborne's new CD, Bluegrass & Beyond, will be released on Rounder this Tuesday (3/31), and Bob

Back in the fall of 2007 we told you about the Appalachian Music: Roots and Influences concentration being offered at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. At the time we reported that former Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass

Sugar Hill will release a new solo project from Jeremy Garrett of The Infamous Stringdusters on March 31. I Am A Stranger features Garrett on fiddle and vocals supported by his Stringduster brethren and a host of other top bluegrass pickers

The next secular release from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, entitled Lonely Street, will be released on May 5. The album, recorded October and November 2008 at Crossroads Studios, Arden, North Carolina, and produced by Lawson, features 11 bluegrass tracks and a

Here comes Gold Heart - the latest sister act to take bluegrass music by storm. This trio of young siblings - Analise (19), Jocelyn (16) and Shelby (13) Gold - has been turning heads and pricking up ears this past two

Next Tuesday (March 24) is the release date for Signs, the latest Pinecastle release from Special Consensus. It's a very good album, showcasing one of the strongest editions of Special C in some time. Founder and banjo player Greg Cahill will

There are several prominent CD releases scheduled for the end of March, and we will have profiles on 3 of them over the next few days. But first, we want to highlight an album that hit late last year. Long Story

Paul Warren has, rightly, been lauded as the greatest "breakdown" fiddler in a career that saw him work with Johnnie & Jack, Kitty Wells, the Wilburn Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs and Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass. Now Paul's son Johnny

Craig Havighurst at String Theory Media has put together a video preview for the upcoming sophomore release from Daily & Vincent, Brothers From Different Mothers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaU8tTIa90o The CD is scheduled for release on March 31, and we will have more on this