Bluegrass recording news

In addition to plugging away on the bluegrass circuit, we understand that mandolinist, vocalist and band leader Jimmy Bowen is shopping a country project to record companies in Nashville. Steve Brooks mentioned recently in his Music Biz and Broadcast Beat column

There are clips of two tracks from the upcoming Blue Moon Rising CD posted on the band's MySpace page. The songs are Where There's A Road and The Hanging Tree. The new project is due for release in January 2008 on

The Del McCoury Band is set to record two live shows next week, with an eye towards a possible live CD release. The shows are next Wednesday and Thursday (10/17-18) at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA. The folks

Claire Lynch's latest Rounder release, Crowd Favorites, is out this week. As we mentioned in an earlier post, the CD includes both previously-released tracks from her prior Rounder projects, and four re-recorded songs from her Front Porch String Band days. There

We've got a stack of new recordings to check out during the drive to Nashville, and we'll pass along some comments during the week. In the stack are Raising Sand from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Bill Emerson & The Sweet

The Clyde, North Carolina-based quintet Balsam Range has just announced the release of their debut CD, Marching Home. The band comprises Marc Pruett (banjo), Caleb Smith (guitar), Darren Nicholson (mandolin), Tim Surrett (upright bass and resonator guitar) and Buddy Melton (fiddle)

In their ongoing effort to keep their back catalog alive online, Rebel/County Records has reissued two more classic LPs as download-only releases. The Blue Sky Boys are such well-established icons in early country music that even those with little or no

Our British correspondent, Richard Thompson, has an overview of a CD collection that was released back in August '07. Time Life has released a further collection of bluegrass recordings. Classic Bluegrass Collection is a compilation featuring three CDs of well-known bluegrass

McCoury Music has now posted an online video of the first recording session for his upcoming release, The Bluegrass Sessions, which we posted about a few days ago. The video shows Hag recording Holding Things Together with Aubrey Haynie, Marty Stuart,

Prodigal Son is the new release from Tim Graves & Cherokee. The CD takes its name from the fifth track on the disc, a tune penned by Daryl Mosley (who also wrote the liner notes). If you are a fan of