We haven't heard a lot from Alecia Nugent since she moved back home to Louisiana after several years in Nashville in the early aughts. There she recorded several successful bluegrass albums for Rounder Records, in cooperation with producer and co-writer
We often receive notes from from readers about their favorite artists who seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. Of course they are still clinging to the crust of our rapidly moving sphere; they just aren't so visible
Tim Stafford and Alecia Nugent have announced their engagement to be married. Could this be the next great bluegrass power couple? Tim tells us that he and Alecia had known each other for years, but became close when they worked together
Jim VanCleve, fiddler with Mountain Heart, has had quite a busy 2010 so far. As related in our recent communications, it appears that there is no rest in sight. But Jim wouldn't have it any other way. In addition to recording
Thomas Wywrot is about to release a self-produced solo project, Every Time I Walk This Road. The album has a modern, in-your-face bluegrass sound with Wywrot's banjo and guitar prominent in the mix. A Canadian by birth, he grew up in
The first video from Alecia Nugent's Hillbilly Goddess CD has appeared online. The video is for the song, Don't Tell Me, written by Buddy and Julie Miller, and shot and edited by Glenn Sweitzer. It's a lovely song and a very attractive
Alecia Nugent has announced the winner in her online Hillbilly Goddess contest where fans were invited to submit essays promoting the cause of their own better halves as the one, true Hillbilly Goddess. The contest was born of the lyrics to
This week's edition of Track-By-Track with Kyle Cantrell will feature Alecia Nugent and her superb new CD, Hillbilly Goddess. She will discuss each track with Kyle as they play through the entire album. The show can be heard on Sirius-XM, and
The Mountain Stage web page at the NPR Music site has links to a number of recently re-aired programs that should be of interest to readers of Bluegrass Today. These are encore presentations of earlier shows, but the music is still
The new CD from Alecia Nugent, Hillbilly Goddess, officially hit yesterday (5/12) on Rounder Records. To mark its release, they have put together a contest with prizes that echo the theme of the title track, with the winner receiving logo merchandise
