Bluegrass recording news

Following up on the critical success of their Team Flathead CD, Huber Banjos is set to release a second volume of recordings featuring popular bluegrass pickers on new Huber Banjos. Where Team Flathead focused on the banjos themselves, with each

We posted recently about the release of an audio CD with live recordings of the various showcase acts that performed at the 2005 European World of Bluegrass in The Netherlands this past May. At that time, there was no place online

Sugar Hill has announced January 2006 as the release date for the next CD project from The Gibson Brothers. The new project, entitled Red Letter Day, is said to contain 15 songs, five written by Eric and Leigh Gibson, with

What we originally reported as a David Lee Roth bluegrass CD is actually something in between that and a bluegrass tribute cover project. It clearly will not be a Roth release under his own name, but it seems likely that

While perhaps not as completely a bluegrass project as a few of her recent ones, the new Dolly Parton CD, Those Were The Days - officially released today - is said to "retain the bluegrass-inspired sound that earned her two

We just received word that David Lee Roth (the original frontman for the legendary rock band Van Halen and multi-million selling solo artist) will be in the studio this week recording a bluegrass album! Who knew? Musical master John Jorgenson

And speaking of Vassar Clements... Ampersand Records has made some video footage of Vassar in the studio available on their web site. It is a fairly large file, but does offer a memorable glimpse of a master at work. This

Aaron McDarris is the banjo player with The Larry Stephenson Band, and his debut release is scheduled for Tuesday, October 11 on Pinecastle Records. The CD is entitled First Time Around, and though it isn't clearly stated on the Pinecastle

I just heard from Chris Burton, who we wrote about here. He gave me an update on his CD that also relates to the viewpoint piece I did early this week. In that post I mentioned that Chris had alerted

The New Jersey based group Straight Drive has released its first band CD on Cabinwood Music. The CD has been receiving airplay throughout the US and abroad. Straight Drive has been performing for four years and has played many Bluegrass festivals,