From 1979 to 2004, Country Music Hall of Famers Alabama were one of the most successful musical acts in the United States. Millions of fans were drawn to the group’s [more]

Funk and soul band the Commodores emerged from the Tuskegee Institute in the late 1960s to become a widely known and popular Motown act.  The ensemble, which included future solo [more]

Cleburne County natives, Seaborn and Thomas Denson, better known as the Denson Brothers, were the patriarchs of Alabama Sacred Harp music. They produced the seminal Sacred Harp songbook and for [more]

From its establishment in 1969 by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, also known as the Swampers, until the mid-1980s, the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Colbert County, was one [more]

Birmingham native, David Wayne Perkins is a Rock and R & B guitarist, singer, songwriter and session musician. As a session musician at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Perkins backed several [more]

Gainesville native, Burl “Jaybird” Coleman was an influential blues musician. In 1927, he recorded seventeen tracks in Birmingham. In 1930, Jaybird went to Atlanta for two recording sessions as a [more]

DeKalb County natives Charlie and Ira Loudermilk, better known as the Louvin Brothers, created some of the most impressive country music of the 1950s. In both their lyrical and musical [more]

In terms of importance and influence, few performers in the history of country music can compare with Hank Williams Sr. Revered by fans drawn to the sincerity of his songs, [more]

Singer Wilson Pickett was renowned as an energetic and intense performer. The Prattville native gained international fame with such hits as “Land of 1,000 Dances” and “In the Midnight Hour” [more]

Adele Hall Ward, best known as Vera Hall is considered by many to be the foremost singer of the blues and African American spirituals. She recorded a large body of [more]