Rounder Records 2011: A Year in Review

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Ever wanted to preview several albums from the one visit? Here’s a great initiative from Rounder Records providing sample tracks from a variety of their artists on the Rounder Label. Just select the album you’d like to sample and have a listen. Artists include: Aligail Washburn, Alison Krauss, Gregg Allman, Michael Cleveland, Newfound Road, Sierra [...]

Sounds of Home Charts for Blue Highway

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News from Rounder Records: Blue Highway’s new album, Sounds of Home, has four songs in the top 10 of the Bluegrass Today Weekly Airplay Chart – I Ain’t Gonna Lay My Hammer Down at #1, Drinking From a Deeper Well at #4, If You’ve Got Something to Say at #5, and Bluebird Days at #8. [...]

Rounder Records Celebrate

Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers Win Entertainer of the Year Award. Rounder Records is celebrating the achievements of their recording artists who garnered multiple awards from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) at last Thursday’s 22nd Annual awards show held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon [...]

Blue Highway – Sounds of Home

Blue Highway - Sounds of Home

Here’s some news from Rounder Records: Rounder Records is pleased to announce the release of Blue Highway’s Sounds of Home on August 23.  The album arrives one long decade after Still Climbing Mountains, the band’s first all-original collection. Blue Highway has always been known for their ability to create striking original music that resounds with [...]

IBMA Nominations For Rounder Artists

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It seems that everyone is currently celebrating their IBMA award nominations. Why not? These award nominations are the greatest recognition one could receive from an industry of peers, professionals and fans.  Rounder Records is celebrating their list of nominations and again, why not? Rounder has an impressive list of award winning bluegrass artists in their [...]

Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration

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Rounder Records is set to release the Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration a Classic Bluegrass Tribute on 23rd August, this year. Bill Monroe was both the father of bluegrass music and one of the genre’s most prolific writers, with a legacy that remains a benchmark for instrumentalists and vocalists alike. Monroe created a distinctive music, a [...]

Jesse Stockman Sidelined

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News just in from the Dailey and Vincent camp is that Jesse Stockman has been ordered to stay away from the fiddle. Sawing on a fiddle every day, while bringing joy to the soul, is not without its physical risks.  Dailey & Vincent’s fiddler Jesse Stockman is currently under doctor’s orders to take a temporary [...]

Sierra Hull Videos To CMT

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The 19-year old mandolin prodigy Sierra Hull has recorded one of bluegrass fan Adele’s touching ballads from her critically acclaimed album 21. The video will be premiering on CMT.com beginning today and the single of the song will be available at all digital retailers from 2nd August.  Hull’s video for her “genteel and wistful new [...]

Rounder Signs Steep Canyon Rangers

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Bluegrass ambassadors, The Steep Canyon Rangers (SCR), have just signed with Rounder Records.  They recently joined iconic comedian, Steve Martin, on his sophomore album entitled Rare Bird Alert, released in March. Bringing bluegrass music to new audiences, SCR continue their meteoric rise as passionate ambassadors for the music they love. With Martin, The Steep Canyon [...]

Hazel Dickens Passes

We have heard this week that Hazel Dickens has passed away. Hazel had been suffering bad health these past few months during the US Winter. Described as a quintessential mountain singer and daughter of a Baptist preacher who hauled timber for the coal mines, Hazel was perhaps best known her songs of coal mines, working-class [...]

Video From Newfound Road

NewFound Road offers a taste of its upcoming album Live at the Down Home with a video for If You’ll Pretend. This song was written by bandmates Tim Shelton and Josh Miller.  Due out 26th April, Live at the Down Home is NewFound Road’s first live album and was recorded at the revered Johnson City, [...]

NewFound Road CD Release

News From Rounder Records Rounder Records announces that NewFound Road once again demonstrate their abilities as a crowd pleasing outfit, this time on a live recording made at Johnson City, Tennessee’s venerable music venue The Down Home. Due 26th April, Live at the Down Home is NewFound Road’s first live album – a mix of [...]