Waiting for Lester Records

04/23/2025

Coming this Friday, a new single from Wild Aster!

04/18/2025

New music from Jason Hannan - Musician! Ensenada is a single Jason wrote with his friend Domenic Cicala. It's a lost love song with a bit of mystery which leaves a lot unanswered.

The song is set to a Tex-Mex style arrangement and features the considerable talents of Howard Parker's Music Page on pedal steel and Michelle Hannan on harmony vocals. Jason's playing acoustic guitar, mandolin, bass, and drums, as well as supplying some of the backing vocals.

We hope you enjoy this new song!

by Jason Hannan

04/17/2025

Gary Palmer's excellent bluegrass gospel album is now available on all streaming services! We hope you'll check it out. Gary is accompanied on this album by a variety of talented folks and we're really proud of his work!

by Gary Palmer

04/16/2025

Three single releases coming up over the next three weeks!

April 18th - Ensenada by Jason Hannan - Musician and Domenic Cicala
April 25th - I'll Take Care of Her by Wild Aster
May 2nd - Win for Losing by Nate Clendenen and the Clendenen Brothers

We're so excited for all this great new music!

04/15/2025

Coming April 25th, a new single from Wild Aster on Waiting for Lester Records! I'll Take Care of Her was written by Wild Aster's own Casey Haberman, who also sings the lead vocals and plays dobro on this touching dedication to his mother-in-law after she passed on. This song is an incredibly heartfelt piece of songwriting and we couldn't be more excited for everyone to hear it. Stay tuned!

04/13/2025

We're releasing a new single from Jason Hannan - Musician and Domenic Cicala this Friday! Entitled "Ensenada" this mysterious tale of lost love and regret is their first co-write together. It also features the talents of Howard Parker's Music Page on pedal steel and Michelle Hannan on harmony vocals. Pre-save on Spotify now!

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04/12/2025

Coming May 2nd, the Clendenen Brothers' first release on Waiting for Lester Records. Nate Clendenen fronts the band and is one of the very best bluegrass singer/songwriters around! He's assembled a top notch band for this release and we are thrilled to welcome him into the fold. Stay tuned!

03/28/2025

A new original song from Jason Hannan - Musician and Domenic Cicala, a duet entitled Ensenada. Coming April 11th on Waiting for Lester Records!

03/26/2025

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Waiting for Lester Records is a Frederick, MD based record label specializing in Americana, bluegrass, and country music. Waiting for Lester Records was founded out of a desire to create opportunities and avenues for recording and radio airplay for local and regional artists in the Washington, DC ar...

03/24/2025

Waiting for Lester Records has a lot of exciting stuff coming this year including:

Wild Aster - full album (Americana/folk)
Nate Clendenen - EP (bluegrass)
Michelle Hannan & One Blue Night - full album (country)
Jason Hannan - Musician - duets double album (bluegrass/country)
ClearSpring - reunion album (bluegrass)

There are more possibly coming that we can't announce yet, so stay tuned!

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03/17/2025

Hey folks, be sure to check out this great review of Wild Aster's debut single, Empty Handed, by Your Town Music - DMV!

Something is happening out in Frederick, Maryland. Catching the eye of Bluegrass Today for a recent spotlight on the area’s public Bluegrass jams, Jason Hannan could very well be described as the Godfather of Frederick’s Bluegrass, Country, and Americana scenes. When he’s not running jams and ...

03/14/2025

We are very proud to release Gary Palmer's debut album, Psalms 100: 1-5! This bluegrass gospel album features original songs from Gary and friends, plus covers of gospel classics old and new! Gary is accompanied by several stellar musicians. Howard Parker's Music Page on dobro, pedal steel, and harmony vocals, Jason Hannan - Musician on guitar, mandolin, bass, and harmony vocals, Matthew Geiger - Musician and Michelle Hannan on harmony vocals, Brandon Michael on fiddle, and Eric Knowles on banjo. It hasn't yet hit all the services but you can still hear it on a few. We also have physical cd's available! Click the link to listen:

Listen to Psalms 100: 1-5 by Gary Palmer on desktop and mobile.

02/21/2025

Coming March 14th on Waiting For Lester Records, Gary Palmer's first album! Psalms 100: 1-5 features Gary's one-of-a-kind interpretations of gospel classics old and new, including two original songs. The album also features Waiting For Lester Records artists Michelle Hannan, Jason Hannan - Musician, Matthew Geiger - Musician and Howard Parker's Music Page , as well as instrumental support from Eric Knowles on banjo and Brandon Michael on fiddle. We can't wait to let you hear what Gary's come up with!

02/07/2025

Check out Gary Palmer's first single! 4 Seasons of Love was written by Gary and features Eric Knowles on banjo, Howard Parker's Music Page on dobro and harmony vocals, Brandon Michael on fiddle, Jason Hannan - Musician on mandolin, bass, and harmony vocals, and Michelle Hannan on harmony vocals. We're really proud of Gary's hard work putting this song together!

by Gary Palmer

02/02/2025

Our artists have been really busy over the past year! Check out our recent releases from:
Wild Aster - Empty Handed (single)
Matthew Geiger - Musician - Always Be There For You (album)
Michelle Hannan & One Blue Night - A Michelle Hannan Christmas (EP)
Dennis Jay - Cowboy Rhythm (album)
Jason Hannan - Musician - Heading South (album)
Howard Parker's Music Page - Music Daddy - A Side Man & Friends (album)

Empty Handed by Wild Aster Matthew Geiger Always Be There For You by Matthew Geiger Dennis Jay Cowboy Rhythm by Dennis Jay Michelle Hannan & One Blue Night A Michelle Hannan Christmas by Michelle...

02/02/2025

Starting this Sunday, February 2, Cowboy Rhythm will be the featured album-of-the-week on WRCF out of Montpellier, France. Use the links on this post for more details. One of the links is a promo voiceover they asked me to do where I parlez voused un peu Francais. https://www.wrcf.eu/promo/Dennis-Jay-promo.mp3
Introducing:https://www.wrcf.eu/Albums/Dennis-Jay-Cowboy-Rhythm.pdf

02/01/2025

For the month of January, Matthew Geiger - Musician release finished at number 2 on the Airplay Direct bluegrass charts. Some pretty heavy hitters there! We thought the Rhonda re-issue was going to pass him but not quite! Congrats to Matthew on his first album and big thanks to Howard Parker, Eric Knowles, and Michelle Hannan for their contributions. Album link in the comments!

01/31/2025

Waiting for Lester Records is proud to announce the release of Wild Aster's first single, Empty Handed! Written by Dominica Knapp Music, Empty Handed explores the loss of innocence as we age and our return to the ground just as we arrived, empty handed. Her soulful lead vocal is ably, sympathetically supported by Casey Haberman on dobro and Michael J. Stone Music on mandolin and guitar. Both Casey and Michael provide warm vocal harmonies as well. We're extremely proud to have Wild Aster as part of our roster of artists and can't wait to see what the future brings! This link will take you to your choice of streaming services. Enjoy and please share!

by Wild Aster