• Rounder Records – first release anniversary

    Today marks the 36th anniversary of the first two album releases by Rounder Records. Rounder 0001 - George Pegram and Rounder 0002 - The Spark Gap Wonder Boys were both released on October 20th, 1970. In the following 36 years Rounder

  • Mo Canada guitar CD released on FGM Records

    Flatpicker Mo Canada has a new CD, released appropriately enough on Flatpicking Guitar Magazine's label. Entitled Grassoline, it features 12 instrumentals that highlight Canada's celebrated guitar playing, with assistance from some of the most skilled pickers in bluegrass. Tony Rice,

  • Curly Seckler project is all virtual

    Well...almost. The new release from bluegrass legend Curly Seckler is now available, but not in the ways with which you may be accustomed. The folks at Copper Creek Records have decided to release this project almost exclusively for download. A limited pressing

  • Chris Thile video shoot today

    We just got word that Chris Thile is shooting a music video today in New York in support of the new How To Grow A Woman From The Ground CD. It's for the song, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground,

  • Tim McGraw Bluegrass Tribute

    Brad Davis called me the other afternoon just to say hi, but as always I asked him what he had been up to. Brad is a busy guy. He produces a TV show, does his own touring, performs with Earl

  • Alabama Gospel project due next week

    Country music superstars Alabama have a new CD set for release on October 24, their first in more than five years. It will be a Gospel project, entitled Songs Of Inspiration, and will contain both familiar Gospel favoriates like Old

  • Rhonda Vincent Christmas CD tomorrow

    We had mentioned Rhonda Vincent's new Christmas recording, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, when it was announced during the summer. The CD is set to be released tomorrow (10/17), and Rounder has audio samples from all 12 tracks up on

  • Dale Ann Bradley CD hits the street

    We posted back in August about Dale Ann Bradley's newest release, Catch Tomorrow, when we first received a promo copy. The hope we expressed at the time was that now, at long last, this extremely talented vocalist and expressive song stylist

  • New Little House CD available

    It's a fair bet that many of our US readers were, at one point in their life, readers of the popular children's books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. If not, odds are that they watched episodes of the equally popular television

  • New South audio now up on iTunes

    When I profiled Lefty's Old Guitar, the new release from J.D. Crowe & The New South yesterday, I mentioned that no audio samples had yet turned up online. The Rounder site still has no audio, but samples are now available in