Bluegrass

  • Northwest Alabama Music News: The Music Is Still Being Made September 2026 — Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and the surrounding Tennessee Valley If you live in Northwest Alabama, you don’t have to look far to find music. It might be coming from a stage in downtown Florence, a bar in Muscle Shoals, a community… Read more

  • Buzzard Dust: Aluminum — 62 Tracks, Nearly Two Hours of Appalachian Folk, Bluegrass & Dead Air The second full-length installment of the Buzzard Dust Mixtape series has arrived. Following Buzzard Dust: Copper, the project continues with Buzzard Dust: Aluminum — a bigger, stranger, and considerably longer entry in the series, running 62 tracks across one… Read more

  • Now hEar This Buzzard News’ monthly spotlight on the sounds you need to know. Now hEAr This is Buzzard News’ answer to the traditional music-discovery column: a monthly look at independent artists, unusual sounds and music worth hearing. Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Sounds like: Appalachian folk, bluegrass, old-time mountain music, gospel, country, Americana, and Southern storytelling… Read more

  • The Buzzard Times Derrick Mobley’s “Alabama” Receives a Vintage Cartoon Treatment Ahead of Buzzard Dust: Aluminum By EmmittOwens.com Staff | August 21, 2026 NORTHWEST ALABAMA — Derrick Mobley’s “Alabama” has a new visual treatment today, with the release of a vintage-inspired cartoon music video accompanying the song from the upcoming Buzzard Dust: Aluminum album. The… Read more

  • 📰 BUZZARD NEWS BREAKING: THE BUZZARD DUST EXPERIMENT APPEARS TO BE WORKING By: emmittowens.com Staff – August 17, 2026 There comes a point in every experiment where you stop, look at the equipment, and say: “Well hell… I think this thing is actually working.” That’s where we’re at with Buzzard Dust. When this started, there… Read more

  • WALK A song about faith, regret, love, and finding your way home. There are songs you listen to. And then there are songs that find a piece of you that you’ve been carrying quietly for years. “Walk” is one of those songs. Performed by Byron Pelson and written by Emmitt Owens, this song isn’t trying… Read more

  • Transmitter from the ShitterA tale outta Churntown, Alabama I. The Man, The Myth, The Outhouse   Now Rusty Eaton had wrote him four hundred and twelve songs, and he knowed it exact, on account of he numbered every last one in Sharpie marker on the inside of the outhouse door, right up next to his cousin… Read more

  • The Buzzard Times From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Wrapper Florence, Ala. — There was a time when he packed heat. Mixtapes. Albums. Hard rhymes. Loaded pistols. Hard attitude. He wasn’t arranging anything. He was moving units. He spoke like a man who believed nobody could touch him,… Read more

  • Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: I’m Building an Empire I Keep Telling You Isn’t Real The independent music circuit is full of self-proclaimed “moguls” buying plastic trophies and inflating their stream counts to project an illusion of global stardom. I’ve decided to do the opposite. I’m building a sprawling musical empire out here in… Read more

  • 🎬 “Tweaker Energy” — A.W. Carter Releases New Music Video Sometimes one little project turns into ten. And sometimes Granny ends up dancing in the garage at 3 AM. A new music video has arrived for “Tweaker Energy” by A.W. Carter, from Buzzard Dust: Copper, written by Emmitt Owens. The song is a fast-moving country… Read more