Atlanta’s Charlie Starr and Blackberry Smoke are kicking off an extensive tour covering the United States and Europe to debut their new album, Be Right Here, releasing February 16. Shining bright as ever, Starr is the primary songwriter, lead guitarist and lead singer of a band that refuses to be stereotyped or pigeonholed. While from…
Widespread Panic returns to the Fox Theatre next week, for four makeup concerts that take the place of the band’s New Year’s Eve shows, which were postponed last year due to Covid precautions. Since then, the iconic jam band has released Miss Kitty’s Lounge, an album that consists of demo recordings made in 1990 with the…
Magnolia Express came together as a band at the worst possible moment, right before the Covid pandemic broke into full swing two years ago. The group evolved from the popular bluegrass jam band Honeywood, spearheaded by singer and guitarist Russell Brown. With live gigs out of the question, Magnolia Express built a fan base through…
Oteil Burbridge first achieved notice for sometimes wearing a mini-skirt on stage as the bassist for Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit. As the band moved away from performance art to focus on its musical interplay, Burbridge was lauded as one of rock music’s best emerging bass players in a band that helped…
Middle Georgian Chuck Leavell is widely considered the greatest rock ’n’ roll pianist of his generation. He was 20 years old when he joined The Allman Brothers Band and played the iconic solo on “Jessica” on the group’s breakthrough Brothers and Sisters album. His piano also fueled Gregg Allman’s signature album, Laid Back, and as…
There’s a good chance that nearly every music lover’s home has at least one album cover that was designed by Atlantan Flournoy Holmes. He created the iconic cover (and psychedelic inside fold-out) for the Eat A Peach album by The Allman Brothers Band, which Rolling Stone recently named as one of the 100 greatest album…
From his home base in Atlanta, Sonny Emory has become one of the most in-demand drummers in music. He is currently on tour with Eric Clapton and performs with Clapton Thursday at Gas South Arena in Duluth. Emory is an Atlanta native who began to play drums at the age of four, and received a…
Blackberry Smoke has much to celebrate. This year marks the Atlanta band’s 20th anniversary together. The Southern rock group has continued to make music despite COVID-19, including a new studio album, You Hear Georgia, which is out today. The album features guest appearances by Warren Haynes, Jamey Johnson and the Black Bettys, and was overseen…
Jerry Grillo began the ambitious task of writing a biography of iconic Atlanta musician Col. Bruce Hampton in 2011, then almost abandoned it after Hampton’s sudden death in 2017 onstage at the Fox Theatre during an all-star musical celebration of his life and his 70th birthday. After a six-month sabbatical, Grillo went back to the…
Widespread Panic’s John Bell cofounded the iconic jam band in the mid-’80s when he and the late Michael “Mikey” Houser were at the University of Georgia. Today, Widespread Panic is still going strong. The band’s current lineup — bassist Dave Schools, drummer/percussionist Domingo “Sunny” Ortiz, keyboardist John “Jo Jo” Hermann, guitarist Jimmy Herring and drummer…
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