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Incoming: Byron Hill – Stay A While
Byron Hill – Stay A While
Release: February 12, 2009
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Byron’s songs have generated more than 575 recordings…earning seventy-seven RIAA certified gold and platinum awards, ten ASCAP awards, twenty-four U.S. and Canadian top-ten chart hits, including nine #1 hits in various markets. -
Incoming: Ryan Bingham – Roadhouse Sun
Ryan Bingham – Roadhouse Sun
Release: June 2, 2009
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…and plenty of reason to stop for a moment to dig in his heels and take a stand.That’s exactly what the Texas-bred troubadour does on his second Lost Highway album, Roadhouse Sun, a hardscrabble collection that’s at once unblinkingly personal and unapologetically political – the latter a new and bracingly vivid addition to Bingham’s palette. The expanded consciousness bursts to the surface of several cuts on Roadhouse Sun – nowhere more movingly than on “Dylan’s Hard Rain”, a stark look into the darker corners of an America in which the storm its namesake sang of has blown through.
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Incoming: Roy Rogers – Split Decision
Roy Rogers – Split Decision
Release: April 21, 2009
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Always eclectic in approach, Rogers is constantly stretching the boundaries of slide guitar. Regarding the new CD, Rogers states “Split Decision is more about the songwriting and in addition I aimed to create a much more edgy sound and cross-genre style. I really wanted to craft strong stories and mix it up a bit with a lot of very different guitar tones and textures – and still have those solid roots-oriented grooves. -
Incoming: Brian Ledford – Truth & Love
Brian Ledford – Truth & Love
Release: June 16, 2009
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“I’ve always listened to anything and everything, and of course I was steeped in the Texas music and traditions I grew up with,” says Ledford. “But I never dreamed I would make this record. Something just happened. I turned a corner and these quieter, earthier songs started seeping out. I just went with it.” -
Incoming: Mac Wiseman – Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs
Mac Wiseman – Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs
Release: June 2, 2009
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Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs captures Mac at the peak of his vocal powers, backed by an augmented version of the Shenandoah Cut-Ups–Billy Edwards on banjo, John Palmer on bass and Tater Tate on fiddle–a band that, like the singer himself, has been under-represented in easily accessible recordings. The buld of the material here comes from that remarkably fertile period between early 1952 and late 1954 when Mac had recorded scores of sides for Dot. -
Incoming: Barry Scott & Second Wind – In God’s Time
Barry Scott & Second Wind – In God’s Time
Release: June 2, 2009
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…Barry Scott takes a brave step into the spotlight for the first time as a solo artist and bandleader after nine years of singing lead and playing bass and guitar with beloved bluegrass institution Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Composed entirely of gospel material, In God’s Time is a sterling showcase for not only Scott’s soaring vocals , but for a wide-ranging musical sensibility that encompasses and fuses southern gospel, bluegrass, and both calssic and contemporary country. -
Incoming: Chris Pandolfi – Looking Glass
Chris Pandolfi – Looking Glass
Release: May 19, 2009
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In short, then, Looking Glass is a bit of a surprise move—a suite that charts a path not toward greater complexity, but away from it, even as it looks forward far more than it looks back. Energetic, supple, sophisticated and yet full of the strength, drive and inspired interplay that have always been the hallmark of fine, satisfying music, Looking Glass is not only the perfect complement to the Infamous Stringdusters’ collective recordings and solo projects by his bandmates, but a compelling announcement that the future of the banjo is in good hands. -
Incoming: Susan Cattaneo – Brave and Wild
Susan Cattaneo – Brave and Wild
Release: April 1, 2009
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After splitting the last decade between writing in Nashville and teaching songwriting at Berklee College of Music, Susan emerges as an original and unique voice. She creates strong female characters who may go through adversity but are taking life head on. Their stories come to life in a dynamic musical landscape: like the women who inhabit her songs, Susan can be tender but she is not afraid to rock. -
Incoming: T. Nile – The Cabin Song
T. Nile – The Cabin Song
Release: June 9, 2009
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T. Nile’s “Cabin Song” EP is the follow up to her highly acclaimed debut album “At My Table” and the precursor to a sophomore LP set for release within the next year. With Cabin Song, Nile continues to build and create a contemporary folk sound that is uniquely hers and these seven new songs deliver on every promise that “At My Table” made. -
Incoming: Jeremy Garrett – I Am A Stranger
Jeremy Garrett – I Am A Stranger
Release: March 31, 2009
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While much of I Am A Stranger Here is devoted to the kind of energetic bluegrass that Garrett’s been contributing to the Stringdusters over the past four years, other numbers stretch out to reflect other aspects of his musical personality — and again, whether he’s accompanying himself on the mournful “Fields of My Mind,” learned years ago in his native Idaho, leaning on Music City stalwarts Paul Franklin and Jeff Taylor for piano and steel on Hank Thompson’s “Today,” or borrowing a song from personal favorite U2, each setting is carefully crafted and each performance compelling.
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