| Artist | Title | Album (* = New Release) | Label | Link |
| Buddy Merruam & Back Roads | Blue Grass Time | live at Lantern Sound | | wusb.fm |
| Alison Krauss | Gentle on My Mind | Windy City* | Rounder | |
| Becky Buller | Speakin' to That Mtn. | single* | Dark Shadow | |
| Bobby Osborne | Goodbye Wheeling | Original* | Compass | |
| Dale Ann Bradley/Vince Gill | Our Last Goodbye | * | Pinecastle | |
| Jerry Weisenkowski | I Still Write Your Name in the Sand | Thanks Mac* | | |
| Shawn Camp/Mac Wiseman | Going Back to Bristol | I Sang the Song* | Rural Rhythm | |
| Mark Kuykendall/Bobby Hicks | We Live in 2 Different Worlds | Forever & a Day* | Rebel | |
| Mikael Cleveland | Tall Timber | Fiddlers Dream* | Compass | |
| Millan Miller | Timepiece | single* | | |
| MIke Barnett/ David Grisman | Bow Wow | Portraits in Fiddles* | | |
| Po Ramblin Boys | We Just Calleed Him King | single* | | |
| Ned Luberecki | Bb Medely- Done Gone New Camptown Races | Take Five* | | |
| Traveling McCoury's | Cumberland Blues | single* | McCoury Music | |
| Del McCoury | I Fell in Love | single* | McCoury Music | |
| Tim O'Brien | A Few Old Memories | Where the River Meets the Road* | | |
| Joe Mullins & Radio Ramblers | Long Gone Out West Blues | The Story We Tell* | | |
| David Grisman Tony Rice | 8th of January | Dawg & T* | Acoustic Disc | |
| Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver | I See a Heartbrake Coming | Life is a Story* | | |
| The Grascals | Sleepin With the Reaper | Before Breakfast* | | |
| Chris Hillman | When I Get a Little Money | Bidin' My Time* | | |
| Richard Bennett | Wichata Lineman | single* | | |
| Infamous Stringdusters | 1901:Caynon Odyssey | Laws of Gravity* | Compass | |
| Wilson Banjo Company | Ain't No Grave | single* | | |
| Casey Campbell/MIke Compton | Whitehorse Breakdown | Duets* | | |
| Dailey & Vincent | Gimmie All the Love | Patriots & Poets* | BFD | |
| Terry Baucom | 4th & Goal | 4th & Goal* | John Boy & Billy | |
| Gibson Brothers | Highway | In the Ground* | Compass | |
The best in new bluegrass music 2017, it was another great year for bluegrass