• New Dailey & Vincent CD in March 2009

    Following comment by the duo on WAMU's Katy Daley show last week comes confirmation today that Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent have a second album in the pipeline for next year.The IBMA Entertainers of the Year Dailey & Vincent have

  • New bass player for NewFound Road

    Rounder Records has announced that there has been a personnel change within the ranks of NewFound Road. Jamey Booher, formerly of Grasstowne and The Booher Family, is replacing Randy Barnes on bass in the contemporary bluegrass quartet. A native of Johnson City,

  • Hornography – Released

    This past Tuesday saw the official release of the new Scheerhorn resonator guitar tribute CD, Hornography. The CD is put together by renowned resophonic guitar player, recording engineer and producer, Randy Kohrs. The brainchild of Jimmy Ross, the CD came about

  • New CD from Audie Blaylock and Redline

    The new, self-titled CD from Audie Blaylock and Redline won't ship until 1/27/09, but with two singles from the project getting airplay currently from bluegrass radio, it is already generating some buzz from fans of traditional bluegrass music. Audie made his

  • Favorite Bluegrass Recording of 2008

    About two weeks ago we ran a poll asking you to submit and vote for your favorite bluegrass recording of 2008. With nearly 900 votes and over 150 submissions, we've narrowed it down to the top ten and we're letting

  • Grammy nominations update

    I don't know whether you noticed, but in the list of 2009 Grammy nominations for the Bluegrass Album of the Year award is an obscure CD featuring the Del McCoury Band live. The 18 track album Live At The 2008 New

  • John Miller joins Ramblers Choice

    Not long ago we reported that Chris Harris had left Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice, and that Junior was in search of a new mandolin player. Junior has just announced that John Miller will be joining the band in that capacity.

  • New CD from Frank Wakefield

    The good folk at Patuxent Music are applying the finishing touches to what the liner notes describe as the first all-instrumental project from Frank Wakefield. Ownself Blues (Patuxent CD-182) is a collection of 13 tunes of which Wakefield wrote 11. The

  • New radio sampler from Rural Rhythm

    We mentioned the new Rural Rhythm radio sampler last week in our post about their upcoming bluegrass CD for Michael Martin Murphey. It has been mailed to DJs and show hosts, and you should be hearing these new tracks shortly. The