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Tag: The South

Featured, MusicSeptember 20, 2022

Gregg Allman: The Road Stops Here

At the end of a road that was supposed to go on forever, Gregg Allman sat down with Acoustic Guitar magazine in 2014 to talk about The Allman Brothers Band’s rocky journey.

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FeaturedApril 22, 2021

The New Southern Rock: Latin Music in the Carolinas

The images in La Rúa’s video are quintessentially Southern: hot rural roads, rich green grass and trees, deep red dirt, dusty construction sites and a gritty pool-hall parking lot filled with people in jeans and T-shirts, dancing and singing.

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Featured, News & CultureNovember 21, 2019

‘Leaving Eden’: A Story of Music, Race, and Old Endings in an Old Southern Mill Town

Leaving Eden tells the story of countless small towns across the South since the days of slavery.

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