It’s one of the great untold tales of American music: the nexus between Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers Band, soul legend Otis Redding, and three visionary ...
MACON, Ga. — On Saturday, work started on a new mural in Downtown Macon. It's celebrating Capricorn Sound Studios and will eventually feature images of Duane and Gregg Allman and Phil Walden. It's in ...
MACON, Ga. — Over the years, members of the Macon community have worked together to revive Capricorn Records back to its former glory. For curator Jared Wright, that work began in 2013 during a ...
While many credit Capricorn Records as the birthplace of Southern rock music, one former drummer for the record label will also remember it as his refuge. In 1975, Eric “Ricky” Eckstein, then 20 years ...
In the 1970s, Capricorn Sound Studios was synonymous with Southern rock. From The Allman Brothers to Wet Willie, Elvin Bishop to the Marshall Tucker Band, hordes of artists recorded at the building in ...
Clarification: Frank Fenter, an Atlantic Records music industry executive at the time, was also involved in the launch of Capricorn Records as one of the label's co-founders. Fenter was not mentioned ...
(INGLES OPEN ROAD) — We’re visiting a place that’s a celebration of some of the true icons of American music. Artists who defined a sound – in a place that became the Mecca of music in the deep south, ...
Time was not kind to the downtown studio where The Allman Brothers Band recorded original hit songs and Southern Rock was born. In December, a half-century later, Maconites and music lovers will ...
In the spring of 2016, Gregg Allman stood on the grounds of Mercer University to receive an honorary doctorate of humanities degree, presented to him by former president Jimmy Carter and university ...