BLUEGRASS

The debut collaborative album from Alison Brown and Steve Martin, Safe, Sensible and Sane, is a collection inspired by a shared fascination with the unique beauty of the banjo. After achieving a No. 1 hit with the first tune they ever wrote together ("Foggy...

On her third all-instrumental solo album, Alison Brown follows in the footsteps of Bela Fleck by liberating the banjo from its usual bluegrass and string-band context to juxtapose it with trap drums, keyboards and other unexpected instruments. Like Fleck, Brown often slows down her...

A truly breathtaking collection of 11 exquisite songs, PAPER AIRPLANE is Alison Krauss' 14th album and the band's follow-up to 2004's triple Grammy winning LONELY RUNS BOTH WAYS. It is Krauss' first release since her 2007 internationally acclaimed, multi-platinum collaboration with Robert Plant, RAISING...

The long out-of-print GRAMMY-winning Live album perfectly captures the emotive musicianship displayed in the Alison Krauss & Union Station's live shows. This 3-LP set, pressed on 180g vinyl and housed in a triple gatefold, features fan favorites "Baby, Now That I've Found You," "The...

Squareneck Soul

Produced By Andy Hall. Recorded and mixed by Sean Sullivan at The Tractor Shed in Goodlettsville, TN. Mastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, CO. Andy Hall plays Beard Guitars and D'addario strings.

Fresh on the heels of his triumphant Rounder debut Try a Little Kindness, Bobby Osborne and his Rocky Top X-Press return with Bluegrass Melodies - twelve exhilarating new tracks that find veteran innovator Osborne at the very peak of his vocal and instrumental powers....

. ABOUT THE ARTIST Brooke, a four-time winner of the IBMA Female Vocalist Of the Year, soars on “Breathe of Heaven” and “The River.” Not to be out done, Darin is featured on lead vocals on “Little Saint Nick,” a bluegrass take on The...

After cementing themselves in the acoustic music world with the Grammy nominated super group Sister Sadie, Dale Ann Bradley and Tina Adair step out with an album of songs they grew up with as children. Also on the album are 3 full band tracks...

Vinyl LP pressing. A rock band without a drummer, a bluegrass band without a fiddler. To The Dead South, a self-styled 4-piece string band from Regina, Saskatchewan, it's about how, not what, you play. Their combination of cello, mandolin, guitar and banjo has all...

Hot Rize

The Infamous Stringdusters dug deep into their bluegrass roots for their thirteenth full-length record- A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs, made available on Americana Vibes. This album pays homage to singer and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs and their influence on...

50th Anniversary Edition of J.D. Crowe & The New South's influential 1975 album, widely hailed as the genesis of the modern bluegrass sound. Featuring classics like "Old Home Place" and "Cryin' Holy," plus two bonus tracks, the album was recently inducted into the Grammy...

Dolly Parton

LIVE

MollyTuttle& Golden Highway release a new six-song EP, Into the Wild, on September 20, 2024, via Nonesuch Records. The EP, a follow-up to their Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed 2023 album, City of Gold, includes three new songs—including the title track which is available now—as...

Music CD

Multiple Juno Award-Winning Old Man Luedecke s narrative-driven folk songs are playful, coy, and soul warming. Hot off the heals of his 2014 ECMA winning Album of the Year and Folk Recording of the Year for his previous album, Tender is the Night, comes...

MUSIC TO MY EARS is the brand new album from Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winner Ricky Skaggs!

This master mandolinist (who co-founded the Kentucky Colonels and played with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt) recorded this in '73. This CD debut has the original notes by the Byrds' Gene Parsons, new ones by Roland and an unissued bonus cut; it joins Powder...

King of progressive bluegrass Sam Bush returns after a 5-year studio hiatus to release KING OF MY WORLD. Sounding much like one of his varied live sets, KING OF MY WORLD seamlessly blends bluegrass, rock, jazz, reggae, folk and country into his trademark blistering...

Hull, Sierra

With one foot in the field and the other in the factory, The SteelDrivers are a beacon beaming their own version of rhythm'n'bluegrass far across the musical landscape. Highly regarded behind the scenes as songsmiths and session men - with innumerable hits, cuts, and...

The Long-Awaited Album," Steve Martin's brand new project with the North Carolina group the Steep Canyon Rangers, is full of stories that mix humor and melancholy, whimsy and realism, rich characters and evocative details. And lots of banjos. That instrument-so dexterously, even acrobatically picked...

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers

EQUALITY

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Formed by departing Byrds Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman in 1968, The Flying Burrito Brothers boasted a staggering wealth of musical talent during their first half-decade set of incarnations, including The Eagles' Bernie Leadon, and pedal steel titan Sneaky Pete Kleinow. But by 1972,...

2020 release. On the heels of their Grammy-nominated, IBMA Album of the Year winner Rivers and Roads, Special Consensus celebrates their 45th anniversary with the release of Chicago Barn Dance. The project is a love note of sorts to Chicago, hometown of the band's...

Guitarist and vocalist Tony Rice was at the center of some of the most celebrated albums in modern bluegrass, and this 1979 release featuring his rotating band "The Tony Rice Unit" (here featuring Ricky Skaggs, Jerry Douglas, Todd Phillips, and Sam Bush, with a...

Backwaters is the 1982 album from the Tony Rice Unit. Led by the bluegrass guitar master, Tony Rice, the Unit explores the intersections of jazz, country, new wave, and more, creating a truly unique listen. The all-instrumental album features both originals and the band's...

SKAGGS AND RICE

Rituals, out May 30th, is the newest full length album from Watchhouse (Andrew Marlin & Emily Frantz). This is the first release of all new, original songs since their 2021 self-titled album, which found the duo embracing a new name and a new chapter...