Lonesome Day Records is pleased to announced the signing of the band, Wildfire. Band members include Robert Hale, Curt Chapman, Johnny Lewis, Matt Despain and Steve Thomas. Info: www.lonesomeday.com
Compass Records’ CD Sale to help Nashville flood victims in the bluegrass music community raised $2000, which has been donated to the Bluegrass Trust Fund.
The Who Shot Lester Monroe? DVD produced by Tom T. Hall is now available at CDBaby, Music Shed, the Ernest Tubb Record Shop and The Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum gift shop as well as at Blue Circle Records and Good Home Grown Music websites. Info: www.goodhomegrownmusic.com, www.bluecirclerecords.com
Rebel Records has released the compilation, Dark as a Dungeon: Songs of the Mines, featuring cuts from Bill Harrell & the Virginians, The Country Gentlemen, The Seldom Scene, Steep Canyon Rangers, Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs, Wildwood Valley Boys, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, Ralph Stanley II, Larry Sparks, Randall Hylton, David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Blue Highway, Perfect Strangers and James Alan Shelton.