Author: Ellie Smith

This past Saturday, Authentic Unlimited hosted their first of soon to be many annual Christmas shows at the Field of Dreams Activity Center in Dandridge, TN.  Before the show, Jerry Cole's longtime friend, John Williams, led off with a reading of

Authentic Unlimited is getting into the Christmas spirit early with their latest single and a new holiday album drifting about like snowflakes on the winter air. Along with the new music, they've also announced that they will be hosting and

Christmas music has already begun drifting on the chilly air, and the lead single for Authentic Unlimited’s first full-length Christmas project is among the first of this year's new holiday material.  The band’s rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

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