Bluegrass tribute to The Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Pick My Kiss: The Bluegrass Tribute to Red Hot Chili Peppers is the title of the latest edition of bluegrass covers for popular pop, rock and country acts from CMH Records. It includes both vocal and instrumental tributes, eleven tracks in all.

Among the songs featured on the CD are: Suck My Kiss, Scar Tissue, The Zephyr Song, By The Way, Behind the S and 6 others.

The CD is officially released today (6/27), but there are no audio samples yet available on the CMH site. Orders can be placed there, however.

Three new CDs from CMH out today

CMH Records has three new titles being released today which may be of interest to bluegrass fans - especially those with a broad spectrum of musical interests. First is a new release in their popular Pickin' On series, in which bluegrass instrumental arrangements are produced based on the compositions...

Pickin’ On Kenny Rogers out today

The latest in CMH Records' popular Pickin' On series is out today. Pickin' On Kenny Rogers - The Bluegrass Tribute, as its title suggests, offers instrumental bluegrass arrangements of 12 Rogers hits, including The Gambler, Lucille, Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town, Lady, and Reuben James. CMH indicates...

Bon Jovi bluegrass from CMH

Nice Life - The Bluegrass Tribute to Bon Jovi, is the title of the latest edition of CMH Records' popular series of bluegrass cover projects is out today. Like the many others CMH has released, this one features grassified versions of 11 songs from the many highly successful Bon Jovi recordings. Included...

Pickin’ On Vince Gill

Vince Gill is among the batch of pop, rock and country stars to be "picked on" by the folks at CMH Records. Their growing library of titles in this Pickin' On series is bearing down on 200 releases, each containing bluegrass instrumental treatments of the hit recordings of popular artists from other...

Spicy hot bluegrass

Nashville-based Vietti Foods Company is using the hot sounds of bluegrass and country artists to supplement the marketing of their spicy canned Vietti Chili brand. Cherryholmes, The Grascals and The Isaacs are involved in this promotion, along with Pat Flynn, Riders In The Sky and John Corbett. Each...

Van Halen tribute CD audio samples up

We have posted several times (here and here) about the upcoming Van Halen bluegrass tribute CD from CMH Records, Strummin' With The Devil. It started as just another of CMH's popular grassified tributes, but has grown into something of a media sensation since it was announced that former Van Halen front...

Pickin’ On Shania Twain coming in January

CMH Records has three new titles in their Pickin' On instrumental bluegrass series due in January 2006. To date, nearly 200 recorded projects have been released in the series, each featuring bluegrass arrangements of songs from the recorded repertoire of a wide variety of pop, rock and country artists. Among...

Bon Jovi bluegrass tribute update

We posted a note last week when CMH Records released Nice Life - The Bluegrass Tribute to Bon Jovi. At the time, we didn't have much info about the new CD, but have a few more details we can share about it now. Unlike the CMH Pickin' On series, which has grown to a library of over 200 instrumental...

Pickin On CMH

We've posted many times over the past two years about the Pickin' On series from CMH Records. This impressive series (234 titles and counting) involves bluegrass instrumental tributes to successful pop, rock and country artists. Many have featured some of bluegrass music's most celebrated players,...

Charlie Waller tribute from Carolina Sonshine

Though known primarily as a bluegrass Gospel band, Carolina Sonshine's newest CD release, The Country Gentleman, is a collection of tributes to Charlie Waller. Other than the title track, written by band member Dennis Cash as a remembrance, all of the songs on the CD are ones that Charlie had recorded...

Dixie Chicks tribute CD in March from CMH

Due from CMH Records on March 14, 2006 is a second volume of bluegrass tribute tracks from the songs of The Dixie Chicks. The new CD, entitled Pickin' On The Dixie Chicks Volume 2 - A Bluegrass Tribute, contains grassified instrumental versions of 11 Chix favorites, like White Trash Wedding, Landslide,...

Bluegrass tribute to Bob Seeger

Cornbread Red has a new CD of bluegrass tributes, this one for rock music legend Bob Seger. Runnin' Against The Wind features their take on Seger classics like Night Moves, We've Got Tonight, Like A Rock and Against The Wind. Cornbread Red likes to refer to themselves as "the Steely Dan of bluegrass,"...