This has been an interesting year for music. Last year we at BluegrassJournal.com gave a nod to our top three favorite musical offerings for 2007. This year, my buddy Danny Tackett suggested we go for the top five. As usual, my list tends to be quite varied. Stick with me through my favorites and hopefully you’ll see the bluegrass connection in them all.

Nashville, Tenn. — The McCoury clan — that would be Del and the boys — is getting in on the Christmas act with a special on CDs from the McCoury Music Store.

“We’re going to make one very simple offer for all of our friends — 20 percent off of all CDs in the McCoury Music Store from now until Christmas,” said a company publicist.

The national primary season keeps building and building for the presidential election, but I’m declaring one vote closed. Finished. The end.
As a result, my copy of “The Bluegrass Sessions” by Merle Haggard will be filed with my bluegrass CDs and not my extensive collection of the Hag’s traditional country CDs. By a 19-15 vote count, [...]

Not a lot of you have cast your vote on where I should file my Merle Haggard CD, “The Bluegrass Sessions,” as I try tidying up my computer/music room that my wife refers to as something far south of a rat’s nest.
In case you’re wondering, 14 BluegrassJournal.com readers think it belongs in my collection of [...]

Merle Haggard – The Bluegrass Sessions
Okay, I have a confession. I’m a CD slob. I listen to ‘em, pull ‘em out of the player and let them pile up. They land n top of the handmade oak CD holder that I fashioned myself. Or on top of my desk. [...]