28-JUN-2009
108: Tishamingo, MS
Enough of Elvis already. This was a bait shop in the country near Tishamingo.
28-JUN-2009
109: Tishamingo, MS
Great place to pick up some shad guts, if you're looking for them.
28-JUN-2009
110: Tishamingo, MS
"The Store" in Tishamingo. Looks like they need to buy a vowel.
28-JUN-2009
111: Rural Alabama
Country church in rural Alabama. It reminded so much of some of the images Walker Evans made in this same part of the country in the 1930's. Some things are probably pretty much the same.
27-JUN-2009
113: Muscle Shoals, AL
An interesting shop we saw on the highway coming in to Muscle Shoals.
29-JUN-2009
114: Muscle Shoals, AL
Monday morning we visited the Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals. Very nice people--we'd come without an appointment. They were, of course, busy recording in the studio, but they pretty much let us look around wherever else we wanted to.
29-JUN-2009
115: Muscle Shoals, AL
Lots of well-known names in rock and roll and country music have recorded at FAME. Artists who recorded there included Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Joe Tex, Duane Allman (who was a session musician there before starting the Allman Brothers Band,) The Allman Brothers Band, Clarence Carter, Candi Staton, Mac Davis, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, Etta James, Andy Williams, The Osmonds, Shenandoah, among others.
29-JUN-2009
116: Muscle Shoals, AL
More of the studio. The break room at FAME.
29-JUN-2009
117: Muscle Shoals, AL
Addison is surrounded by gold and platinum records in the FAME waiting room. There were several platinum Tim McGraw albums on the wall. I'm told Tim and Faith live close by. Muscle Shoals has, over the years, become a place where singer songwriters would come and stay for periods of time to write and then record. Paul Simon is one. McCartney spent time here as well.
29-JUN-2009
118: Murphy, NC
It's hard to describe how good it felt to see the mountains of Western North Carolina. Not only that, but the temperature dropped FORTY degrees from where we were in Mississippi to where we ended up at the cabin in Cashiers.
24-JUN-2007
119: CASHIERS, NC
The amazing view from the cabin porch in Cashiers. There is nothing quite like it.