Alabama music

Huntsville wants to be known for more than just space. The Rocket City’s event space, The Orion Amphitheater is making waves in Huntsville and has become a hub for musical and community events.

A Grammy-winning Southern music label based in Florence is turning ten years old. Single Lock Records is holding a series of one-time-only concerts to mark the milestone. Celebrations have been happening over the last several days and continue during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

From Key West, Florida, and beyond, the world became an extension of Jimmy Buffett's musical kingdom of "Margaritaville." With the passing of the beach-bum balladeer at the age of 76, legions of his fans are celebrating the music he left behind.

The new BJCC STAR Amphitheater will be coming to the city of Birmingham in 2025. The project will cost $50 million.Construction for the new amphitheater will begin early of next year. Tad Snider is the Executive Director of the BJCC. He says this comes after the funding approval for the project.

Remember the first rap song you heard? Some of your favorite rappers and DJs do. That includes Flo-Milla (Tamia Monique Carter,) who hails from Mobile. She's in the lower left of the photo above. While hip-hop celebrates 50 years of life, The Associated Press asked some of the genre's most popular artists to recall their fondest memory.

The documentary titled Muscle Shoals helped to put the small community in Northwest Alabama on the map nationally and internationally. It was released in 2013 and featured everyone from Keith Richards to Aretha Franklin speaking on the brilliance of the area’s recording studios in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

Musicians looking to succeed in the music industry are invited to a free conference March 9-10 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

There is a long musical history associated with the Shoals in Northwest Alabama. The stories of Fame and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios have been well documented. However, the locals say the area is not just a museum piece. The music continues to flow like the so-called singing river that passes through it. The area is home to musicians, recording engineers, and producers who have decided to pursue their creative goals on their own terms.

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Jimmy Johnson, a founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios and guitarist with the famed studio musicians "The Swampers," has…