ALABAMA
ALABAMA
(Ft. Payne)Alabama was a very popular Grammy-winning country group
throughout the late 70's and early 80's.
JIM YESTER
(Birmingham)Jim was the guitarist for the very popular/very hated 60's
soft-rock band The Association.
JERRY YESTER
(Birmingham)Jerry joined the popular 60's band the Lovin' Spoonful at the same time people stopped liking them, after years of being
the producer for brother Jim's The Association. Jerry later
went on to produce a solo album, a band called Rosebud, and
Tom Waits.
J.R. COBB
(Birmingham)Cobb, previously a sessionman and Classics IV guitarist,
founded the Atlanta Rhythm Section in 1970 as guitarist with Dean Daughtry.
Their late 70's hits include "So Into You" and "Imaginary Lover."
DEAN DAUGHTRY
(Kinston)Daughtry, also a former sessionman, founded the ARS with
Cobb as keyboardist. Daughtry was also a member of the Candymen.
JIMMY BUFFETT
(Mobile)Although Mississippians like to claim him as their own
simply because he attended the University of Southern Mississippi,
Jimmy Buffett was raised in Mobile and attended
Auburn University. Buffett was (and still is) extraordiarily
popular in the 70's thanks to his boring schlock-rock songs
about being an impoverished drunken sailor, which he is not.
And to top it off, is he trying to sing like Bob Dylan?
Jimmy Buffett
TONI TENNILLE
(Montgomery)Yeah yeah yeah, but hey- they were popular! The Captain &
Tennille, that is. Best-known for an even worse version of
Neil Sedaka's "Love Will Keep Us Together," which hit #1, sold 2.5
million copies, and was awarded a Grammy for Record
of the Year in 1975. After that broke thru, they controlled the
charts from thereafter until 1979, with 7 more Top 10 hits,
ending with "Do That To Me One More Time," which hit
#1 in 1979. And... they even had their own prime-time
series
on ABC in 1976!
True story- I was in Troy, AL at the Food World, when I looked
upon the wall, and I saw "Carl Tennille - Assistant Manager."
I thought, "Could it be?"
CLARENCE CARTER
(Montgomery)A blind singer/guitarist, I remember Carter from my childhood
not because of his string of late 60's R&B hits, but from a
early 90's TV ad featuring Carter swaying his head to and fro and singing
"Strokin'." Was a running joke with the friends.
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