We had some fun chatting with our friends Lee Zimmeran and Scott Shankland on their podcast Blount County LIVE!

https://letsbeblount.com/podcasts/

Hey friends, its been a busy time for us! I'm playing with my family band The Pirkles, Smoky Mtn JAM is wrapping up its 2nd semester.

Jeff and I are both teaching for the inaugural session of North Knoxville JAM…

Here's a song Jeff and I wrote during a tough time. Seemed like it was tough at the time, anyways.  It was a cold grey yucky December and we kept singing that Merle Haggard song. You know the one. If…

I pre-recorded a concert for Jubilee Community Arts and the Laurel Theater! It will stream from this link on Youtube and Facebook at 8:00 EST. October 29, 2021

Sarah Pirkle in concert for Jubilee Community Arts

This is amazing! I've got to thank my friend and gifted fiddler Libby Weitnauer for suggesting I apply for this fellowship, and for writing a letter of recommendation for me. Big thanks also to my sister friend and all around…

I wrote this song last year, when we were just a few weeks into this Covid thing. The forecast for Easter Sunday called for rain, this sounded like some kind of proverb or old saying to me. I researched it…

This was exciting, affirming, and also a little scary at the same time...I'm being inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, songwriting category! After looking at the past inductees, my first thought was "man, my catalog is THIN"…

Well, I've been dragged into the world of online video conferencing for teaching, and...I like it! I wasn't sure if my teaching style could be adapted to this format, but its worked well and I've actually found some advantages to…

You know what is humbling? Falling on the pavement out of the blue for no real apparent reason. My detective skills led me to believe I rolled my ankle on a piece of gravel. Alls I know is I was…

We had to crack open the only physical copy of our first album "Dog Years" to be able to upload the music to this website. It was still in the shrink wrap. I forgot what the inside liner notes and…

I'm doing the "art" for this project myself this time. I LOVE box turtles, we have a nice community in our habitat. Its nice to share the space with them, I consider it good luck if I see one. This…

We did it, we went to Dave Coleman's studio in E. Nashville, holed up for a weekend and recorded some of the songs we've written. If you don't know Dave's work, check him out here... www.davecoleman.biz

     Dave is one…