Sowell Family Pickers

Family bands tend to have a limited run in bluegrass. It’s inevitable that the kids age, get married, have children. Life happens, as they say. In recent years, I’ve seen several of my favorites move on – Cherryholmes, the Bankesters

With Veteran's Day coming up this weekend, The Family Sowell have released a new single which they hope radio will play to remind their listeners of the sacrifices so many have made in uniform over the years. Titled God Knows Who

The Family Sowell is a touring band of six bluegrass siblings in east Tennessee. Like many such groups, as the kids have started maturing into adulthood, their music has taken on a more serious tone, and they changed their name

Another new single from Poor Mountain Records this week is Dusty Gravel Road from The Family Sowell. This talented family of young grassers features six siblings, ranging in age from 11 to 21. Eldest brother Jacob is on banjo, with Joshua

The Family Sowell, known previously as the Sowell Family Pickers, is a family band based in Knoxville, TN. Like so many similar groups, they began when the oldest children were much younger in Texas, and they have now grown into

One sure sign of the health and vitality of bluegrass music is the number of Christmas release we see every year. It's pretty well become a sub-genre, with a format now well-established: acoustic carols and hymns, with bluegrass arrangements, and

The results are in from the 2017 KSMU Youth in Bluegrass Band Contest, held each year during the Bluegrass and BBQ festival at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO. Roughly a dozen young groups are invited to compete, with more than

Poor Mountain Records, a still relatively new small label based in North Carolina, has been making aggressive moves this past few months. They have signed a number of bluegrass and Gospel acts recently, with plans to release new projects recorded

The Sowell Family Pickers from Hempstead, TX have released a new single today, ahead their upcoming album, Trust in the Lord. Consisting of the twin daughters and four sons of Guynn and Cindy Sowell, the family band sings uplifting bluegrass Gospel