Pinecastle is back

Thanks to Sara Elizabeth Hetland of Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, who writes:

You wrote about the ending of Pinecastle Records in an earlier post, but the good news is that the label is back...

and sends a link to the Country Standard Time website report on the latest developments.

The revival of this major bluegrass label is good news, and deserves more attention than we've given it. BIB readers may have seen the news item that appeared on the original Bluegrass Blog on 11 August and was updated the following day. This gives all the necessary details and contact data for the new management.

As we write, a new Pinecastle website is not yet launched. The label still owns the masters for earlier Pinecastle releases (numbering nearly 250 albums) and will be reprinting them under the new management. The catalogue includes CDs by rising artists such as Kristin Scott Benson, Terry Eldredge, and Josh Williams, as well as legendary figures such as the Osborne Brothers, Jim & Jesse, and Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen. Irish audiences may be most familiar with the Pinecastle albums by the Special Consensus, who have toured here often since 1995 and are now signed to Compass Records.