Stuart Duncan

Another important release this week is Goat Rodeo Sessions, a superstar project from Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma which dropped yesterday (10/25) on Sony Masterworks. The group was featured on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night,

Anytime you learn that Chris Thile is involved with a new project, you can expect it to be fun-filled and unbounded. Seeing Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan in the lineup suggests an interesting push/pull between the bluegrass, classical and new

Anytime you learn that Chris Thile is involved with a new project, you can expect it to be fun-filled and unbounded. Seeing Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan in the lineup suggests an interesting push/pull between the bluegrass, classical and new

It's a CD... It's a book... It's American Folk Songbook! Actually, it's all of those things, this new project from Suzy Bogguss. It finds this celebrated country hit-maker recording music much closer to the folk music she grew up singing, and

Florida banjo picker Scott Anderson has a new CD highlighting his very talented family. Oh... and some of the hottest pickers in bluegrass music! Tales From The Swamp has Scott out in front, primarily on banjo and lead vocals, on a

The first live performance of the evening, from Dierks Bentley and his assembled super-pickers. Photos by Roy Swann.

Leavin' Tennessee, the new CD from Butch Baldassari and Van Manakas which we mentioned last month, is now available online. In truth, it's much more of a Van Manakas than Butch Baldassari project. 12 of the 17 tracks are tunes he

Well, it seems like the theme on Bluegrass Today of late is candid video shot in the recording studio. First we had The Infamous Stringdusters, Cadillac Sky and Blue Moon Rising, and now we feature footage from Sierra Hull. She spent

Awards season has begun for the the Academy of Country Music. In addition to the nominations announced on Tuesday for all the glittery pop stars, a list of "lesser lights" was quietly passed out. This includes musicians, producers, engineers, radio hosts,

We posted last week with news about The Chapmans signing with Compass Records. At that time, we promised some more details on their next CD soon, and Jeremy Chapman has provided us with just that... "Grown Up (A Revisionist History) is