Alison Brown, award-winning banjo player and co-founder of Compass Records, has released a holiday album, Evergreen, a 10-track collection that includes “fun and imaginative re-workings of festive favorites,” according to the artist.

Joe Craven, fiddler, mandolinist and percussionist and an alumnus of the David Grisman Quintet, is the special guest throughout.

Nashville, Tenn. — The Compass Records Group is thrilled to announce the signing of Missy Raines, “superstar bluegrass bassist” (The Free Lance-Star) and seven time recipient of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) award for Bass Player of the Year. Now fronting her hot new band The New Hip, a “startlingly gifted quintet” (Jon Weisberger, The Nashville Scene), Raines is poised to have her longtime dream realized: an album that fuses bluegrass virtuosity with jazz-tinged grooves and a song-driven sensibility.

Drew Emmitt released “Long Road” on Compass Records July 15.
Nashville, Tenn. — Drew Emmitt, vocalist and mandolin player for Leftover Salmon, is revered as one of the most energetic and innovative mandolin players on the jamband/newgrass scene today. On his new album, Long Road, Emmitt’s “inestimable talents” (An Honest Tune) don’t end with just [...]

Heidi Talbot “In Love and Light” (Compass Records)
Nashville, Tenn. - Look out for a new star in the glittering firmament of great Irish singers: with the release of her new album “In Love and Light,” Heidi Talbot is truly set to shine. Drawing on the full, diverse spectrum of influences that inform her singing, [...]

Compass Records Group is excited to announce the purchase of Tayberry Music, an internet and mail order business specializing in hard to find Celtic and folk CDs, DVDs, sheet music and books. Founded in 1987 by Margaret Tice and her son Frank Tice, Tayberry Music has sourced thousands of copies of eclectic Celtic music and [...]