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What Country and Southern Rock Owe To Classic Soul Music Pt. 2
How Alabama soul provided the roots for much of modern music.
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FAME is Right Around The Corner
FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, was the studio where all of the greats recorded in the '60's. FRom Aretha Franklin to Wilson Pickett, from Otis Redding to Duane Allman. We spoke with FAME founder Rick Hall's son, Rodney, about the studio's past, present and future.
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Crash of Southern Airways Flight 242
Pilots rely on ground radar and their on-board radar screen for choosing a flight path through thunderstorms. Something went wrong on April 4, 1977.
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What Country and Southern Rock Owe To Classic Soul Music - Pt. 1
All those long-haired cowboy types owe a debt of gratitude to the down-home soul shouters of the deep south in the 1960s.
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Memphis - Part 3
The stories behind the Hi and Goldwax labels and the American Recording operation. (And a look at the great deep-soul master James Carr.)
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Feels Like Rain
Men of Standard's self-titled debut album "Feels Like Rain" is a foot-tapping laid back album with a contemporary and traditional feel. God has anointed and blessed the album.

The First New Deal
The early years of the New Deal have been described as cooperation in economic planning between the federal government and business.
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Play Me Some...Alabama Music!
Whether you're a music lover or not, you'll enjoy a trip to the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

Tracking Colonial Era German Immigrant Ancestors
Colonial Era German immigrants are not easy-to-trace ancestors. Genealogists welcome such records as this 1738 passenger list.
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Vanessa Bell Armstrong
Desire of My Heart:Live is an outstanding record that captures the soul and passion at the heart of Armstrong's music. The CD diplays many of her best known and popular songs.

New Orleans Hometown Favorites
Another city that had treasures we didn't know about at the time.
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What is Appalachia?
Defining the term "Appalachia"
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An Overview of Bob Dylan Albums
Here are six albums, along with some alternate choices, intended to give new fans of the influential artist an overview of his long and varied career.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Voice Of Southern Rock
America's favorite Southern Rock band - then and now.
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The All-Time Top 100 R&B Tunes - Part 6: 51 - 60
Ten more of the finest examples of the music we love.
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The Atlantic Records Story
How a Turkish ambassador's son and a Jewish New York intellectual introduced r&b to white America.
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The Migration Further into the Wilderness
Two different but incredible journeys had the same destination. This group of pioneers would establish a settlement over 300 miles beyond their county seat.
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Etta James
She has one of the most powerful voices in r&b and she's lived the most colorful life in a field brimming with colorful lives.
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Michael Bloomfield
The sad, dazzling story of the first white guitar god.
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The All-Time Top 100 R&B Tunes - Part 4: 31 - 40
Ten more in our most popular ongoing series. What do you think of the picks? Join the discussion.
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Higher Education and Economic Development in Appalachia
A look community colleges in the Appalachian region.
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HIRAM JOHNSON: THE BULL MOOSE RUNNING MATE
Hiram Johnson started as a progressive politican, and was Teddy Roosevelt's running mate on the Bull Moose ticket. He is also credited with defeating Charles Evans Hughes in 1916, and guaranteeing Woodrow Wilson's re-election. An staunch isolationist, he worked hard to prevent first the League of Nations and then the United Nations.
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Midwest Carolina Blues
Suite 101 Editor Michael B. Smith ventured from Greenville, SC to Lincoln, Nebraska for his CD release party on January 14th. Here's the big adventure, the R.D. condensed version.
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Dru Lombar Recalls Grinderswitch, Joe Dan and the Seventies
Dru Lombar was the front man for one of the South's hottest jam bands during the early 1970's, Grinderswitch. These days he is still rocking with Dr. Hector and the Groove Injectors. We caught up with Dru in his Florida home for the following personal interview.
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Southern Rockers Respond to The September 11th Terrorist Attacks
Southen rockers and others respond to the terrorist attacts on New York and Washington, DC.
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