The 2011 Americana Music Festival began last night with an event that illustrates the genre’s greatest strengths: outstanding performances and a respect for what has come before. The 90-minute concert celebrating the Muscle Shoals sound was equal parts energy and nostalgia, with legendary figures like Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, Jimmy Johnson and David Briggs sharing the stage with some of…
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Saluting Duane Allman and southern rock
In remembrance of Duane Allman and on the 40th anniversary of his death, the Country Music Hall of Fame will host “Brothers and Sisters: The Rise of Southern Rock.” The Oct. 29 program will feature figures who were pivotal to the history of Southern Rock, including Charlie Daniels, Bonnie Bramlett, Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie, Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd…