Top-Selling Country: Progressive Bluegrass albums (#1 - #40)
MISTY RIVER: Live at the Backgate Stage
COMPELLING VOICES OF ACOUSTIC AMERICANA- Excellent live show recording: The sweetness of Alison Krauss, emotion of Emmylou Harris, the depth & imagery of Gillian Welch. Audiophiles LOVE this CD.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOY KILLS SORROW: Joy Kills Sorrow
Modern Stringband Music/Roots Bluegrass
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
CROOKED STILL: Still Crooked
Virtuosic, improvised old-time, bluegrass, and modern string-band music.
Recommended if you like Nickel Creek, Alison Krauss.CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
SHANNON WHITWORTH: No Expectations
This americana/country roots record features original songwriting, banjo, pedal steel, dobro, fiddle and mandolin which are used to form a creative foundation for sweet sultry female vocals.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
IVAN ROSENBERG: Clawhammer and Dobro
*ON SALE $8.97* 2009 Just Plain Folks Awards Nominee * One-of-a-kind merging of bluegrass & old time sounds. "One of the best instrumental albums I've heard this year" -Donald Nitchie, Banjo Newsletter. "A musical delight" -Bluegrass Unlimited
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $6.97
FRANK BARD: Harmonica from the Heartland
Eight extreamly talented musicians, all playing acoustic instruments, Play what we describe as An Instrumental collection of tunes from a variety of Music genres.
CD price: $14.00
HOT DAY AT THE ZOO: Cool as Tuesday
Simply put: Hot Day at the Zoo embodies what it means to put down your troubles for a while and get caught up in a laid down groove that's sure to bring a smile to your face and a sway to your hips. Good Times...
MP3 price: $15.00
BILLY WALSH: Irish
Passionate and enchanting vocals accompanied by world-renowned, virtuoso musicians - an exquisitely beautiful and joyfully raucous tour across the Celtic musical landscape.
Recommended if you like James Taylor, Alison Krauss.CD price: $12.97
HIJINKS: Slowpoke
Contemporary Bluegrass/Swing with top notch vocals and hot pickin. Produced by David Grisman
Recommended if you like New Grass Revival, Nickel Creek, The Waifs, David Grisman, The Waybacks, The Duhks.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
UNCLE MONK: Uncle Monk
Alt-Country, Progressive Bluegrass, Old-Timey music by Tommy Ramone & Claudia Tienan.
Recommended if you like The Carter Family, Old Crow Medicine Show.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
JAYME STONE: The Utmost
2008 Juno Award winner for Instrumental Album of the Year in Canada. "Bridging jazz, bluegrass and everything in between with smart compositions, playful jams, and a great sense of purpose. It's music that's difficult to describe, but easy to love." CBC
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
BAWN IN THE MASH: Welcome to the Atomic City
Bawn in the Mash's first album 'Welcome to the Atomic City'
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DETOUR: Radio Hill
"Detour's Radio Hill - great original contemporary bluegrass, a bluegrass joyride; precision instrumentals, insightful songwriting, soulful singing with a nod to the past and the future."
CD price: $12.97
THE DEADLY GENTLEMEN: The Bastard Masterpiece
The perfect fusion of Woody Guthrie, Eminem, and Bela Fleck, backed by the three hardest-grooving bluegrass prodigies in the world.
Recommended if you like Béla Fleck, Nickel Creek.CD price: $15.00
THREE RING CIRCLE: Three Ring Circle
Three Ring Circle are an "acoustic jamgrass instrumental power trio" featuring Dobro, Mandolin, and Bass.
Recommended if you like Sam Bush, Béla Fleck & Jerry Douglas.
NASH STREET: Carry On
Nash Street's new CD represents the old style of bluegrass but makes it new with a contemporary bluegrass and complex country sound.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.97
AREA CODE 615: Double Lp"area Code 615" And "trip In The Country"
Progressive country and progressive bluegrass.
Recommended if you like The Marshall Tucker Band, The Charlie Daniels Band.CD price: $20.00
HOT DAY AT THE ZOO: Long Way Home
Darker and edgier than the wildly popular debut, full-length album "Cool As Tuesday", the new EP features 5 gritty, emotionally charged songs. Fact, fiction or fable, their tunes are layered with intricacies and depth reminiscent of the Grateful Dead.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
STILL ON THE HILL: Ozark
A collection of eccentric Ozark characters brought to life in songs, 'Ozark' made it to #1 in Nov. of 08 on the folk DJ chart/listserve. A virtual Ozark Journey. Nothing else like it.
CD price: $15.00
SALLY JONES: Songs About Us
Her crystal clear, warm voice tells these personal story-songs against a backdrop of acoustic, contemporary bluegrass played by luminaries Ron Block, Chris Jones, Tim O'Brien,The Isaacs, The Whites, Stuart Duncan, Eric Uglum and more.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
DEJABLUE GRASS BAND: Bucket Full Of Rain
Coiled steel harmonies wrapped in raw energy. You won't find a better blend of voices in all of bluegrass music. We dare ya to stand still. First Runner-up in the 2008 Telluride Bluegrass Festival band competition.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
IVAN ROSENBERG: Bluegrass Dobro with Ivan Rosenberg DVD
*Sale for just $19.97* Learn how to play bluegrass Dobro (resonator guitar) with this best-selling instructional DVD by Ivan Rosenberg. Hammer-ons, pull-offs, rolls, melodies, licks, and tricks.
DVD price: $19.97
COOL MANDOLIN COMPANY - VARIOUS ARTISTS: An American Tradition
If you love the mandolin you'll love this CD. Mandolin at its best-from bluegrass to newgrass.
CD price: $15.00
LINCOLN CROCKETT: Angels & Devils Alike
Excellent debut solo disk from Cross-eyed Rosie singer/songwriter. Deftly picked acoustic songs with near-jazz melodies and flowing, conscious lyrics that have a spiritual flavor specific to no genre. Deep, powerful and stunningly musical.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
DANGER & THE STEEL CUT OATS: The Birds Woke Us Early
Imagine a winter night with folk music filtering through a one-story brick house as eight friends laughed and sang about stories they once heard in the mountains.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
BLIND CORN LIQUOR PICKERS: Anywhere Else?
Slamgrass -- rockin' music with bluegrass instruments.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
JAKE SCHEPPS: Ten Thousand Leaves
Adventurous Stringband Music: tangos, string quartets, bluegrass, swing, jazzy ballads and more. Produced by Matt Flinner, and featuring the Expedition Quartet, and special guests Matt Flinner and Adam Aijala.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
MEGAN MUNROE: One More Broken String
This Indie singer/songwriter combines heartache, desperation and a "take your final stand" mentality with a musical edge that combines a tinge of the Delta blues, pure bluegrass and traditional country.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
THREE TALL PINES: Short While Ago
an acoustic co-op that relays the emotion of early American rural life through the sounds of impassioned harmonies and progressive instrumentation
CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $10.00
DEAD MEN'S HOLLOW: Forever True
Old-time, bluegrass, southern gospel, and country blues . fronted by three-part female harmonies
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOHNNY BUTTEN: Solo
Essentially bluegrass in its roots, this album has alot of swing flavor, combined with some energetic foot-tapping traditional bluegrass tracks, perfectly foiled by sweet mellow fiddle tracks that bring a tear to the eye. All instruments played by Johnny
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MELISSA PEIRCE: Lonesome Lullaby
Acoustic indie, with pop, country and bluegrass influences.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
RUNAWAY PLANET: No Part Of Nothin'
Runaway Planet's brand of bluegrass takes a modern spin to what is often considered an antiquated genre, playing what many call "newgrass." Their debut CD of all-original bluegrass music, combines styles from traditional as well as progressive bluegrass.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
IVAN ROSENBERG AND BILLY CARDINE: The Donkeys
"A collaboration between two friends who communicate via their shared mastery of resonator guitar and banjo. They flourish within and beyond their instruments' traditions." - Bluegrass Unlimited
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
SPACE MANDINO: Robots from the Graveyard
The robots are gaining on you. I’m not sure how you’re going to get away now. Besides, it’s dark and you could easily trip on a gravestone.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
KATI PENN: My Turn To Cry
a good mix between modern and traditional bluegrass music
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOHN SKEHAN & TODD COLLINS: Perform Mandolin Duets of Emanuele Barbella
Classical mandolin duets by musicians who also play bluegrass, jazz, and acoustic music.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
JAKE SCHEPPS: Expedition
"Expedition" features an exploration into the stringband, traveling the spectrum of bluegrass to newgrass, ragtime to jazz, and old-time to classical counterpoint. The album features something for everyone, especially if you dig the banjo.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
