Mountain Fever Records has signed No One You Know to the label, and will release their new album, Calm Before The Storm on August 31.

The West Virginia band features Rachel Burge on mandolin, Don Anderson on bass, Ramie Bennett on banjo, Bruce Jones on resonator guitar, and Lance Gainer on guitar. All save Jones share in the vocal duties.

The debut single from the CD, Looking for A Sign, was released earlier this week via Airplay Direct, where you can hear the track online.

Here’s a taste of their sound from YouTube:

Barry Scott is on the hunt for a mandolin or guitarist who sings high tenor for his recently reformed edition of Second Wind.

Scott and his entire band parted ways not long ago, but Barry has assembled a new group, with just this one piece missing. Anyone who would like to be considered for this position should contact Barry by email or via his Facebook account.

The previous members of the band will be putting something of their own together soon. More news on that shortly.

Rural Rhythm Records has announced August 24 as the release date for the debut album from The Bartley Brothers, Hit The Road. The record will feature 8 new songs by guitarist Rick Bartley, whose material you have heard on recent projects from Junior Sisk and J.D. Crowe & the New South.

Brother Shayne is on mandolin, Josh Hymer on banjo and Jayd Raines on bass. All four band members sing and their sound is hard hitting and traditional.

The title track has been out as a single to bluegrass radio since April, so you may have already heard it over the airwaves. If not, here’s just a taste.

Hit The Road:

Pre-orders are available now from Amazon.

UPDATE 8:45 a.m. - The Bartley Brothers have just announced that they are holding auditions for a bass player and tenor vocalist. To be considered, the band asks that you contact them by email (bartleybrothers@aol.com), or phone (859-321-9874).

Country Standard Time uses the recent release of their latest CD, Wildwood, as the springboard for a lengthy piece about alt-bluegrass road warriors Chatham County Line.

The article by Brian Baker, conducted largely as an interview with Chatham County Line guitarist/vocalist Dave Wilson, starts with recognition that they have drums on the new record.

Before bluegrass purists hyperventilate over this turn of events, it should be noted that CCL – Wilson on guitar, Chandler Holt on banjo, upright bassist Greg Reading and multi-instrumentalist John Teer – have no designs on rewriting the bluegrass rule book. In road dates around “Wildwood,” they will be appropriately drummerless.

“Adding a drum set up is almost more trouble than reward,” says Wilson. “We travel really tight. We have just our instruments and a couple of microphones, and we really dig the short sound check. We want to give people a completely organic show; what you see on stage is exactly what you hear. To add drums, we’d have to change our stage set up so much that it becomes a different band.”

Dave also discusses the way the band’s sound has evolved leading up to this, their fifth CD.

“The first record was, ‘We want to be a bluegrass band,’” says Wilson. “The second album was, ‘We are a bluegrass band, check us out,’ the third record was, ‘Hey, what about these songs and these stories that we really like?’ and it could be a bit more mellow, and with number four, we brought in more pedal steel and piano. Greg‘s an amazing steel and piano player so why hide his talents? This one is just an extension of that.”

You can read the full article at www.countrystandardtime.com.

Here’s a look and listen to one of the songs from Wildwood, Out Of The Running.

You can find more video and audio from the new album on the band’s web site.