Larry Keel

New Single Coming Soon!

Enjoy the Butt Dial teaser today!

Larry Keel and Peter Rowan’s friendship goes back more than 20 years. Together they’ve played shows across America and have performed in Alaska, Hawaii and Jamaica, always taking in the local scenes and finding inspiration in the rich and unique cultures they experienced as musical colleagues and fellow travelers.

Over the years the friends would casually remark that they should hunker down and write songs together, and last year that finally happened. Through texting, Larry and Peter would bounce around ideas and possible subjects to write about. At one point Peter had the idea about a funny story-song involving someone who unintentionally calls his friend in the middle of the night because he’s accidentally dialed the number when his phone was in his pocket.

With the song’s premise in place, the writers then set out to tell the short, quirky and charming story of 2 friends who end up enjoying speaking on the phone for hours into the night, when they hadn’t even meant to connect. “Butt Dial” was born! Larry and Peter have another finished song that’s in production currently, and is set for release later in 2026.

ABOUT

Larry Keel is an award-winning innovative flat picking guitarist and singer/songwriter hailing from Appalachia and currently residing in historic Lexington, VA. Raised in a musical family steeped in the mountain culture of the region, Keel began from an early age to forge a distinctive sound, taking bluegrass and classic country music and infusing those styles with a rock edge and elements of improvisational jazz.

With the acoustic guitar Keel has brought the flat-picking form to its highest level of sophistication and sonic power, delivered by his muscular yet refined style of playing. As a songwriter with a catalog of nearly 100 original compositions, Keel integrates raw honesty and charming grit to create songs filled with reality, imagination, imagery and mood. He has appeared on over 20 albums, 12 of which he produced, and has written songs that have been recorded and performed by distinguished artists including Grammy-award winners Del McCoury and The Infamous Stringdusters.

He has performed at some of the greatest venues including Tokyo Disney, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall NYC, Red Rocks Amphitheater, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, LOCKN, High Sierra Music, Bonnaroo, Del Fest, Hullaween, and countless more. He has inspired and merged creative forces with some of the greatest artists in modern roots music such as Tyler Childers, Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, Keller Williams, Tony Rice and Sam Bush, to name a few. Keel has been revered by critics at Relix, JamBase, Bluegrass Today, No Depression, AXS, and Rolling Stone, who dubbed him “one of the finest flat pickers around” and described his unparalleled live performance “taking songs up a notch with psychedelic hillbilly shredding.” C-ville Weekly claims “Keel is doing for bluegrass what Hendrix did for rock, what Miles did for jazz- exploring the uncharted possibilities, defying the limitations of a deeply established musical form.”

Stream or buy the new Larry Keel & Jon Stickely EP on your favorite platform! Be on the lookout for more new music and lots of live show experiences in 2026!

Current projects are: Larry Keel Experience, Electric Larry Land, The Keel Duo, The Keel Stickley Duo, and Keller & The Keels.