• Kenny O’Quinn to Half Past Lonesome

    Kenny O'Quinn has been announced as the new mandolin player with Jeff Clair & Half Past Lonesome, where he will also assist on harmony vocals. Prior to signing on with Jeff, Kenny had worked with The Tommy Webb Band, Don Rigsby &

  • New Start for Adkins & Loudermilk

    Dave Adkins and Edgar Loudermilk both had pretty good gigs going when they chatted backstage at the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival earlier this year. They wrote a song together, then another, and a couple more after that. They sang and

  • End of the Line for Republik Steele

    Republik Steele, a hard-driving band from eastern Kentucky, is calling it quits. Founding member Kenny O’Quinn said his last show with the band is Friday in Grayson, KY. Vocalist Dave Adkins confirmed that he, too, is leaving the band, which developed

  • Dave Adkins at the plate

    When the Nashville Regional for the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship gets underway this weekend, bluegrass singer Dave Adkins will be on deck to perform the National Anthem on Saturday evening. Adkins has made quite a splash this year with

  • Dave Adkins at SPBGMA

    Things were hopping in the lobby of the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville last night here at SPBGMA. We caught Dave Adkins & Republik Steele in a lobby alcove performing their current single, The Way I Roll.  

  • A Few of My Favorite Things

    As a Bluegrass Today correspondent, I get to listen to a lot of music during the year. Some on CDs, some live. Some traditional bluegrass, some most definitely not. Some of it terrific, some of it, well, not so much. But

  • New single from Republik Steele

    Dave Adkins & Republik Steele, recent Rural Rhythm signees, are celebrating the new label association with a single from their upcoming album, That's Just The Way I Roll, produced by Steve Gulley. It is expected early in the new year. The band

  • Songwriter to Songwriter: David Adkins

    For this next episode of Songwriter to Songwriter, David Morris chats with David Adkins, songwriter and vocalist with Republik Steele. They talk about the band's upcoming record, and some of the songs Adkins wrote for the new project. Be sure to