Bluegrass Breakdown: New Releases

You want ‘em and we’ve got ‘em—the always welcome, never to be shunned, guaranteed to be a hit new Bluegrass CDs. We’ll be digging the latest sounds from Bela Fleck, Billy Strings, Della Mae, the Farm Hands, Lizzy Long and the Henhouse Prowlers.

PROGRAM PLAYLIST

• The Henhouse Prowlers: “The Departure” from The Departure(self-released)
• Della Mae: “You Don’t Have to Do That” from Family Reunion(self-released)
• Sideline: “When the Sun Rose Up That Morning” from Ups, Downs, and No-Name Towns(Mountain Home)
• Norman Blake: “My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains’ from Day By Day(Plectrafone)
• John Reischman: “Salt Spring” from New Time and Old Acoustic(Corvus)
• The Chuck Wagon Gang: “Bewley Mills Jingle”/”Take Me Back to Col-Ler-Rad-Da Fer to Stay” from Radio Days(Mountain Home)
• Lizzy Long: “A Woman Scorned” from Dreaming Again(Vine)
• Billy Strings: “Hide and Seek’ from Renewal(Rounder)
• The Infamous Stringdusters: “Old Dangerfield” from Tribute to Bill Monroe(self-released)
• The Wilson Banjo Co. with Clay Hess: “She Is a Gambler” from Six Degrees of Separation(Pinecastle)
• The Farmhands: “Shoal Creek Road” from 4.0(Pinecastle)
• Bela Fleck: “Strider” from My Bluegrass Heart(BMH)