I recently came across a CD that was released long before Bluegrass Journal was born and well before I started getting serious about writing albums reviews. It’s one of those things I don’t remember acquiring, and quite honestly, I don’t even remember listening to it. Too bad, it’s a real gem. I’m glad I rediscovered Andy Leftwich’s solo CD, Ride.

Parts of the album are like being at a bluegrass festival after midnight and stumbling onto the best jam session you could ever imagine.

At least, that’s what some of Ride is about. Other parts are like stepping back to the late 1890s or early 1900s into someone’s fancy parlor or a bistro to listen to some refined string music of the day. A few tidbits fall right into the 21st century groove….

Bristol, Tenn., — Claire Lynch, David Grier, Mike Compton, Michael Cleveland, Charlie Cushman, and Rob Ickes have been added to the lineup for the Bluegrass All-Star Jam on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at The Paramount Center…

Michael Martin Murphey and his Bluegrass friends ride again on the February 9, 2010 album release of “Buckaroo Blue Grass II.” The album expands on his passions of his Grammy nominated album, “Buckaroo Blue Grass,” creating fully acoustic bluegrass versions of songs about the region to which Murphey has been deeply connected for a lifetime – the American Southwest….

Bluegrass artist, Donna Ulisse is teaming up with producer Keith Sewell again and has been in the studio recently working on her next project. The title of the forthcoming CD is “Holy Waters.”

According to Hadley Music Group, Ulisse “is working on her first Bluegrass gospel / spiritual CD…

Last year, Blue Highway celebrated its 15th year of togetherness. And what a celebration it turned out to be — one for all of us to enjoy, thanks to the band’s latest CD, Some Day: The Fifteenth Anniversary Collection.

When I think of Blue Highway, one word comes to mind: “Deep.” The anniversary collection only confirms my thinking….