Year after year and home after home, Sam was growing fast and growing alone. He was the friend everyone had that moved away. Well it gets so hard to try and fit in every day. Call it a great travesty […]
The Southern Rambler tells the stories of artists, writers, and musicians in the South.
Year after year and home after home, Sam was growing fast and growing alone. He was the friend everyone had that moved away. Well it gets so hard to try and fit in every day. Call it a great travesty […]
While Americans were listening to the Culture Club and its song “Karma Chameleon,” Martin Harley was living in Woking, England, discovering the Mississippi blues and the music he was destined to play. With a slide on his Weissenborn guitar and […]
Jay Burgess, lead singer and songwriter for the Pollies, did not start out as a singer, songwriter, or a guitar player. But today he is a part of the new generation of Muscle Shoals musicians feeding off of each other […]
To be humble, to be kind. It is the giving of the peace in your mind. To a stranger, To a friend To give in such a way that has no end. We are love We are one We are […]
Dylan LeBlanc’s new album, Cautionary Tale, was released on January 15, and he was on the CBS This Morning: Saturday Sessions on January 23, the day before he played at Callaghan’s Irish Social Club on January 24. LeBlanc, from Muscle Shoals, is […]
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day I was out choppin’ cotton, and my brother was balin’ hay And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat And mama hollered out […]
“The name Muscle Shoals had developed some sort of mystique and mysterious drawing power to music industry people in the way Liverpool had during the Beatles era…I believe the power of Muscle Shoals is in the do-or-die attitude that […]
On the gray March days between winter and spring, Shawn Mullins recorded My Stupid Heart in the Tennessee foothills outside of Nashville. His first album in five years is a new beginning for the Georgia singer-songwriter who is singing with a voice that […]
I open up the window and listen to the rain fall Just ‘cause you want me to Twenty three days feels more like a lifetime ‘Cause that’s what striking gold will do Early fall and falling leaves, sky opens up […]
From Muscle Shoals to Mobile, the country’s best music is coming from the state of Alabama. The music has always been here, but today it is different. Alabama bands are topping the Billboard charts in multiple genres and selling out […]