Dave Adkins & Mountain Soul

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Dave Adkins and Mountain Soul is a bluegrass band based in Elkhorn City, Kentucky, led by singer, guitarist and songwriter Dave Adkins. Born June 8, 1972 in Pikeville, Kentucky, Adkins performed in school bands as a child and played bluegrass professionally at Dollywood beginning at seventeen, then spent years outside music working road construction, riding bridge crews and guiding rafts on the Russell Fork River before returning to the genre full time. He also worked as a country radio disc jockey in Pikeville. He formed Dave Adkins and Republik Steele in 2010, signed with Mountain Fever Records in 2014, and recorded a run of charting albums including Nothing to Lose (2014), the duo record Adkins and Loudermilk (2015) with Edgar Loudermilk, a self-titled 2016 release that reached number one on Billboard's bluegrass chart, Right or Wrong (2018) and Better Days (2019). His originals and covers, among them Pike County Jail, Change Her Mind, Blood Feud, co-written with Larry Cordle, and a bluegrass reading of John Michael Montgomery's Sold, have topped the Bluegrass Today airplay chart and SiriusXM's Bluegrass Junction. He signed with Billy Blue Records in 2023 and released What I'm For in January 2024, produced by Jerry Salley and shaped in part by his recovery from cancer; the record includes songs from writers such as Allen Shamblin and Marc Beeson and a bluegrass version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising. Adkins is a Grammy-nominated vocalist through his contributions to the gospel album Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout, has been nominated for SPBGMA Male Vocalist of the Year and IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year, and has been named a Kentucky Colonel. The band's lineup has included Bobby Davis on bass, Layla Cantafio on fiddle, Andy Stinnett on mandolin and Jack Brown on banjo. It was selected for the IBMA Bluegrass Ramble at World of Bluegrass in 2026 and works fairgrounds, parks and festival stages across the eastern United States.

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