Prior to the performances, a public celebration of life is set to take place at noon on June 3 for ALABAMA Band Member Jeff Cook, who has passed away. Cook, along with Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, helped bring the original June Jam to Fort Payne and this year will be the first June...
–Jeff Cook, founding member and guitarist of the Alabama, died on Monday at 73. Cook, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame, Fiddlers Hall of Fame and Gibson's Guitarist of the Year, passed away with his family and close friends by his side at his beac...
The multi-award-winning musician was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame, Fiddlers Hall of Fame and was Gibson's Guitarist of the Year. The band confirmed the news on Facebook sharing that Cook "passed away peacefully" on Monday with family and close friend...
around 1980. Much of the film is shot in Philadelphia environs and clubs and in the communal rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood where Sun Ra lived with much of his band – a band that taps into his musical vision and his taste for wild and outlandish garb and adornment...
Aldean released his owncover of Alabama's "Christmas in Dixie"in advance of the Christmas season in 2022, calling the band his "musical heroes," and itearned him a thumbs-up from Randy Owen. "Obviously, I wanted to kind of pay tribute to those guys, and you want them to be proud of...
The Million Dollar Band was back in action for the first time in a year in Atlanta. The Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the Miami Hurricanes 44-13 in the season opener. Million Dollar Band Crimson Tide Photos / UA Athletics Million Dollar Band The Million Dollar Band cheers on Alabama in Atla...
loyal to the Union, or at least to remain neutral. It was suspected that Willis Brooks had been giving aid to a number of Tories in the area. For this perceived act of treason, sometime in late 1863 or early 1864, a renegade band of Confederate Home Guards tortured and killed Willis ...
Some songs could be recorded and released in any decade. "Fishin' in the Dark" was a hit country song for theNitty Gritty Dirt Bandin the '80s, but the results would have been the same 10 years earlier or later. It's truly timeless and (fun fact) it's not about fishing!
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, on February 11, 1932, Jimmy Carter is a founding member and the frontman of the Blind Boys of Alabama. He is the oldest living member of the group. Since the original members first sang together as children in the late 1930s (including Carter), ...
(the repeated notes) turn it into a rhythmic pounding, capped by the big legato surge of pure bliss on "arms wound around you tight". It's a great listen - and, if you're so minded, a masterclass in pop singing. And what an intro - Nelson and the band evoking November 13th 1833...