Music
Damon Johnson living the life of a Rock Star
Geraldine High School graduate Damon Johnson has enjoyed an amazing career in rock music, sharing the stage and studio with the industry's biggest names. Here's an email interview with Johnson conducted in August of 2006.
Vestal Goodman was the Queen
of Gospel Music
She was the Queen of Gospel Music, with a face recognized
by millions. Her handkerchief and colorful attire were familiar
trademarks, and her beaming smile which spoke of a joy
unspeakable in her soul warmed the hearts of all who met
her.
The Louvin Brothers' influence
still spreading across the world of popular music
Northeast Alabama's first country music stars have defined close-harmony
duet singing for several generations and have influenced singers
and songwriters from gospel, pop and country music from the 1950s
to the present day...
Musicologist Alan Lomax
and Sand Mountain's Sacred Harp
Alan Lomax arrived around ten o'clock. With an impressive load
of recording equipment, he came to capture what he called "the
haunting beauty of southern congregational singing."
The blue, blue grass of home
Gene Ivey has been making musical instruments for 34 years. He's
been making music for a lot longer...
Lonnie Barksdale's stringed
instruments are works of art
He's made a mandolin with a banjo body and a banjo with a mandolin
body. Two hundred years ago, the Russians introduced the balalaika;
he has made two of these unusual triangular instruments...
Cat Freeman was one of Gospel
music's most beloved tenor voices
One of the pioneers of today's Southern Gospel music was born
in the Fyffe area on March 11, 1922. Claris G. "Cat"
Freeman displayed talent at an early age, and attended many of
the singing schools held regularly in the area.
Erman Slater was a Gospel Music
Pioneer
But before Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith, or Third
Day; before Kirk Franklin or Mary Mary; before Gold City or The
Crabb Family; before Gospel music was a multi-million dollar
industry, it was born and raised in the churches, school auditoriums
and radio stations of the rural South.
Music runs in the Daniel family
blood
Musical talent is not hard to find on Sand Mountain. But every
now and then you run up on a family with an inordinate amount
of it.
Fans never get tired of hearing
that song
Pat Upton loves you more today than yesterday...
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