Bluegrass recording news

The New Essex Bluegrass Band has released its first CD, entitled Hot Off The Press. The New Essex Bluegrass Band has been in existence since 1994 and has been one of the UK's most popular traditional bluegrass acts from the beginning.

Family bluegrass band Cherryholmes is making its first attempts to cross over to country radio. According to a Reuters/Billboard report, Cherryholmes is remixing - with added piano and drums - This Is My Son, one of the cuts from their forthcoming

Songs From The Road is a loosely-knit side project band that features members of such noted touring acts as Steep Canyon Rangers, The Emmit Nershi Band, Shannon Whitworth and the Refugees, Larry Keel and Natural Bridge, Town Mountain, Super Grit

Blue Circle Records has announced the release of Bluegrass Bouquet (BCR-017), what they describe as "an organic all-female album" from the IBMA Recorded Event of the Year award-winning Daughters of Bluegrass. This CD, the second album for the Blue Circle Record

Tennessee Pusher, the new project from Old Crow Medicine Show is scheduled for release this coming Tuesday (9/23). OCMS chose eclectic producer Don Was for this new project, whose previous credits have included music megastars like Bob Dylan and Elton John.

Rebel Records has announced the signing of Colorado's Spring Creek, which they note marks the first time the Virginia label has contracted with a band based west of the Mississippi. It may also mark the first time a new band hits

When we posted not long ago that audio samples from the upcoming Cherryholmes CD were available online, we teased that an interview would be forthcoming. And so it has come to pass. Cia, banjo player, lead vocalist, and the senior member

The Steep Canyon Rangers have decided that those who haven't seen them live, shouldn't be excluded from the experience. To that end, they've began posting live tracks from recent shows on their myspace page. Currently there are two tracks from

The latest CD from Lonesome River Band, No Turning Back, was released earlier this week on Rural Rhythm Records. Band leader Sammy Shelor told us that he was psyched about the new album, and was especially pleased that Rural Rhythm was

Bass player, song writer and journalist, Jon Weisberger has announced the release later this month of his first solo CD. The independently labeled, If This Road Could Talk, is scheduled for release on September 16. The collection consists of a dozen