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When Ja’Ray “D’Mario” Nalls, who writes music under the name Jrnl (pronounced “journal”), thinks about the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on his music, he thinks about new beginnings.
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This year, First United Methodist Church of Florence will celebrate its bicentennial anniversary, and as part of that celebration, the planning committee decided to reprise a musical production that was well-loved by the community when performed in the past — “Smoke on the Mountain.”
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Payton Pruitt, lead vocalist and guitarist in the local rock n’ roll band Carver Commodore, remembers feeling discouraged in March of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic reached the Shoals area. He said the band had big plans for the year that were quickly brought to a halt.
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In February of 2020, Wanda Wesolowski and her band, Wanda Band, were recording their first album in Greenhill. Then in March, everything shut down.
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I grew up in a house full of music,” said Cadence Baker, an area teenager who received a ticket to Hollywood during this season’s American Idol auditions.
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MUSCLE SHOALS — When Susann Hamlin, president and CEO of the Colbert County Tourism and Convention Bureau, thinks about Muscle Shoals, she thinks about music.
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Budding musicians and songwriters often struggle to find places to test out their sound. Sometimes, one opportunity to perform for an audience can create a new world of possibilities — something that recording artist and songwriter Doug Mays knows all too well.
FLORENCE — Russell Mefford said he didn't know what to expect when The Fiddleworms hosted a benefit show for two Shoals organizations that featured the band and a few guests playing Beatles covers.
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SHEFFIELD — One of Patterson Hood's earliest memories of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio at 3614 Jackson Highway was learning when not to run into a recording studio to greet your dad, especially when he's playing bass during a session.
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SHEFFIELD — It's been about three months since Tonya Holly was diagnosed with what she believes was her second bout with COVID-19.
FLORENCE — This year's concert presented by crooner Edsel Holden will include stellar musicians who will bring to the stage, "The Song is You."
FLORENCE — Celtic musicians Scooter Muse and Jil Chambless will perform at the annual St. Patrick's week concert Tuesday at the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts' Southall Annex.
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SHEFFIELD — A group of songwriters will gather at Cypress Moon Recording Studios on Thursday to perform some of their most well-known songs to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Michael.
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NASHVILLE — Country soul icon Ronnie Milsap is a bit of a studio geek, and he thinks a lot about music technology and recording equipment. So it makes sense that he spent a long time getting 13 other singers and bands into the studio to record duets with him for a new album, "Ronnie Milsap: …
SHEFFIELD — Devon Allman said he certainly felt a vibe while recording tracks for the upcoming Allman-Betts Band album in the iconic Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, where his late uncle Duane laid down tracks for the likes of Boz Skaggs, Ronnie Hawkins, Lulu and John Hammond.
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