New releases by past visitors (UPDATE)

Mountain Fever Records announce the release of a new single, 'Yesterday's heartache', written by the Nashville-based songwriters Jerry Salley, Kelli Kingrey, and Bruce Carpenter, and sung by Kristy Cox (AUS), who toured Ireland with her band in May this year, thanks to mygrassisblue.com. The release is also featured on Bluegrass Today, where an audio clip can be heard.

Compass Records announce that Tall fiddler, the new album by Michael Cleveland, due for release on 23 August, will be featured this week on Kyle Cantrell's 'Bluegrass junction' show on Sirius XM radio. A brief video trailer about the album shows some of the stellar cast of accompanying musicians and also serves to revise our ideas of the number of notes that can be played in one minute and ten seconds.

The Band of Ruhks (Ronnie Bowman, bass; Kenny Smith, guitar; Don Rigsby, mandolin; Brian Fesler, banjo), headliners at Omagh a few years ago, have just signed with Rebel Records, who will release their second album, Authentic, this coming autumn, preceded by a single in August. More details are on the Rebel e-newsletter.

Ronnie Bowman has just released 'Looking for a reason', the second single from his album coming later this year, on the Engelhart Music Group (EMG) label. He's supported by Rob McCoury, banjo; Dennis Crouch, bass; Wyatt Rice and Shawn Camp, guitars; Aubrey Haynie, mandolin; and Stuart Duncan, fiddle. More details are on the EMG e-newsletter, together with a link to a full-length audio preview of 'Looking for a reason'.