Recent Videos and Activities for Music
Alabama (Music Group)
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]
December 12, 2019
Lionel Richie and the Commodores
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]
September 20, 2019
Denson Brothers/Sacred Harp Music
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]
September 10, 2019
Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
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]
January 2, 2019
Wayne Perkins
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]
November 27, 2018
Jaybird Coleman
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]
October 9, 2018
Louvin Brothers
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]
October 9, 2018
Hank Williams, Sr.
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]
August 3, 2018
Wilson Pickett
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]
August 3, 2018
Adele “Vera” Hall
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]
May 28, 2018