Author: Ellie Smith

Over the course of the next few weeks, Wilkes County, NC will be hosting a series of benefit concerts centered around helping the relief efforts going on in western North Carolina.  On October 5th, the First Baptist Church of North Wilkesboro

Jeromie Stephens accepts the Photographer of the Year Award - photo © Frank Baker Thursday at the World of Bluegrass is always heralded as the biggest night in bluegrass, because of the main awards show, but the awards begin long before

The latest radio single for Authentic Unlimited is the song that the title of their current album, So Much for Forever, is drawn from.  Goodbye cuts deep into the pain of staying. While leaving is heartbreaking for one person, staying after

Sister Sadie at the 2024 Doc & Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest - photo © David Parrish July 19th and 20th rang in the 22nd Doc & Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest in Sugar Grove, North Carolina. Sugar Grove originally began as a

Authentic Unlimited at Spirit in the Bluegrass 2024 - photo courtesy of the festival June 6-8 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first Festival of the Bluegrass at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. The original festival began in 1974 at

Will Clark is kicking off his career as a Mountain Fever recording artist with a ramped up take on a classic Mountain Heart song that listeners are sure to be blasting at full volume as they burn up the backroads

Knee Deep in Bluegrass is a Terry Baucom banjo instrumental through and through, complete with the punchy pull-offs, perfect timing, and powerful tone that are so undeniably the Duke of Drive's.  Ashby Frank re-cut the Bauc original with his own jamming

The latest single from Darin & Brooke Aldridge is a re-imagined spin on the Desert Rose Band classic, Price I Pay. Darin and Brooke pack the same show-stopper spirit into their all acoustic rendition of the song; they have flawlessly melded

Big Wheels is the second single from Authentic Unlimited's upcoming project, So Much for Forever, set to release March 29. It's a red-hot addition to the canon of classic truck driving songs.  Penned by none other than bass man Jerry Cole,

Christmas arrived early this year with the release of a brand new Darin & Brooke Aldridge single that is leading the "sleigh" for their first Christmas album, Hometown Holiday.  There is no feeling in the world that can quite match the