Bluegrass recording news

We mentioned last week in The GrassCast episode #17 that Alecia Nugent's sophomore release for Rounder Records, A Little Girl...A Big Four-Lane was set to hit the street on February 28, 2006. Alecia discussed in her GrassCast interview (listen online)

Rebel Records announced on Friday (2/24) that their entire catalog is now available for digital download from Apple's iTunes Music Store. Every current, in-print release can be purchased via iTunes, as well as a few out of print titles. Rebel

Due from CMH Records on March 14, 2006 is a second volume of bluegrass tribute tracks from the songs of The Dixie Chicks. The new CD, entitled Pickin' On The Dixie Chicks Volume 2 - A Bluegrass Tribute, contains grassified

We got a note from Randy Culler with Bluegrass & Beyond that their debut CD, Livin' A Dream, is now available. The band is based in Southwest VA/Northwest NC and they specialize in traditional bluegrass and gospel music. Audio samples are

Anyone who caught the James King Band performance at SPBGMA earlier this month in Nashville enjoyed seeing bluegrass legend Curly Seckler join them on stage. We have recently learned that Curly will also be a guest vocalist on the next

We just heard from Eric Gibson of The Gibson Brothers, that their new Sugar Hill project, Red Letter Day, debuted on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart at #5 in its second week of release. The CD is also climbing on the

Celebration Of Life is the title of an upcoming two CD release from Skaggs Family Records to benefit the St. Jude Children"s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. It is a live recording from the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival, and

In bluegrass we think of banjo in terms of what Earl did with the instrument. Sometimes we consider the claw-hammer style used by old time players. But rarely would we think of banjo and associate it with the blues. But

New Road, a bluegrass gospel group based in Knoxville, TN, released their latest CD on February 14. The Message is their sixth recording as a band, and is made up primarily of songs written by the members. Attendees at last

Heather Berry reports that her next CD, To A Dove, is nearly finished and should be released sometime in April. Guest artists include some real bluegrass legends - like Mac Wiseman and Eddie & Martha Adcock - plus more contemporary