I had a question ready about what it was like to move home from Nashville. I never got to ask it, because the premise was wrong. “It's a common misconception that I lived in Nashville,” John Paul White told me about six minutes in. “I never did.” I made my hay here, and by the time I could afford…
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There is a detail from this episode I have not stopped thinking about. When the city of Huntsville designed the logo for its music office, nobody put a guitar on it. That was on purpose. “We identified really quick that we're not really a specific town,” Matt Mandrella told me. “I think we're…
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One of Tere Richardson's former board members used to describe downtown Athens in the 1980s like this: on a Friday at five o'clock, he could throw a rock anywhere on the square and not hit anything except maybe a stray dog. This past Friday, 5,000 people were down there. They were eating in the…
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There are some people who find music, and there are some people music finds first. Bay Simpson is the second kind. He was born in Florence, Alabama into a family where his mother sang, his father drummed, and the two of them played in a band together. His stepfather is a hit songwriter. His…
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Twinkling lights, Christmas trees, Santa...the holiday season is officially ON! There are so many fun events all over north Alabama to celebrate Christmas and the holidays, so check out these events and add them to your must-do list this holiday season! Light Up Your Holidays at the Galaxy of…
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