Celebrating Georgia’s legends, landmarks and unsung heroes
TIn February, amid public controversy surrounding a proposed 8.3 acre mixed-use development in downtown Athens, Patterson Hood, co-founder of the Drive-By Truckers, wrote “After It’s Gone,” a “love song” to the city and its vibrant downtown and recorded it during a 40 Watt gig. From
The “behind-the-scenes” in Georgia’s music industry come front-and-center in this expanded issue. The cover story by Jewly Hight looks at Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Artists and how the business is making its mark. From
For those who have followed the career of Bradley “Butch” Walker since the late ’80s, when he was best known as lead guitarist for hair-metal band Byte the Bullet, his current success as a hit-making pop music producer seems both redemptive and a bit bewildering. From
Cee Lo Green On Going To Heaven, Raising Hell & The Purgatory That Is The Music Business - The Goodie Mob frontman, Gnarls Barkley vocalist and hip-hop fixture finally gets his moment in the solo limelight. To hear him tell it, it was all part of the master plan. From Georgia Music, Winter Issue 2011 by Bret Love.
Read MoreOver the past three decades, the state of Georgia has achieved worldwide recognition as a fertile breeding ground for musicians of nearly all stripes. From
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Call it “The Gator Effect.” In the 1980s, Georgia ranked as the No. 3 state in the nation for film production, after California and New York, largely because of the roguish charm of Burt Reynolds, the era’s box-office alpha dog. Citing a “violent urge to get behind the camera” and “say some nice things about the South,” he committed to...