Haggard and bluegrass and Krauss… oh my!
Billboard is reporting a couple of new bits of information about the upcoming Merle Haggard acoustic/bluegrass CD we had told you about late last year. We had reported that this new recording would feature Hag and some of Nashville’s top bluegrass players on a set of familiar bluegrass songs, along with some new and classic Haggard compositions, to be released on the McCoury Music label.
New from Billboard is a project title (The Bluegrass Sessions), a projected release date (October 2, 2007) and word of a duet with Merle and Alison Krauss on a new Haggard song.
Most encouraging is the following quote from the article:
“I really enjoyed doing it,” says the 70-year-old Haggard, “and I hope this is just Volume One.”
You can read the brief piece at Billboard.com.
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The nominating committee for the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences, who distribute the Grammy Awards each year, decided yesterday that the new release from Merle Haggard, titled The Bluegrass Sessions would not be eligible for Grammy consideration in the Best Bluegrass Album category...
McCoury Music has now posted an online video of the first recording session for his upcoming release, The Bluegrass Sessions, which we posted about a few days ago.
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Today's (9/30) edition of The Chicago Sun-Times has an interview with Merle Haggard, primarily about his upcoming CD release, The Bluegrass Sessions, due out this coming Tuesday (10/2) on McCoury Music.
In the interview, the Sun-Times' Dave Hoekstra talks with the Hag about his interest in bluegrass,...
We just got word that the Merle Haggard bluegrass CD we told you about last month is set to be released on Del McCoury's imprint, McCoury Music, jointly with Hag Music.
Chris Harris with Rainmaker Management (Del's media relations) shared this bit of info.
"What I've heard so far sounds great. Ronnie...
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FYI, while there was some discussion early on about focusing on familiar bluegrass songs, the set in fact consists mostly of Haggard songs old and new, with several of the old ones being relatively obscure.
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