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]

Mother Angelica was the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network, located in Irondale, and founder of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville. Born Rita Antoinette Rizzo [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]

Birmingham native Nell Carter first came to public attention as a Broadway performer, but she achieved her most lasting fame as the star of the television series Gimme A Break! [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]

Lella Warren was born in Clayton, Barbour County. During a writing career that spanned more than half of the twentieth century, Warren wrote novels, short stories, autobiographical essays, and features. [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]

Self-taught artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth was born in Fayette County, where he spent his entire life in a modest home, even as he rose to prominence as of one of [more]