Here’s Mark Kimbrell playing “Hush” with Roadside—a moment from our musical history featuring a guitarist whose roots run deep in Birmingham music. Mark’s musical world spans jazz, rock, blues, funk, and improvisation. His connection to Alabama’s music community is also a family story,...

Some videos hold a whole chapter of your life. This is the original Another Roadside Attraction, following our days as Exodus, being introduced at Mountain Brook Junior High School by Alan Hunter. There we are: me, Jase Carns, on bass; Sims Crawford on guitar; Franklin Sechriest singing; and Brian...

Some songs seem to float between the world we can touch and the one we can only feel. For me, this one also opens a door straight into childhood. The Police released Ghost in the Machine in 1981. I was twelve that year, going to lots of bar mitzvahs, dancing, and having such fun. Looking back,...

To Alabama: home, complicated, beautiful, still mine. This one is for the state that has given me so much: my roots, my family, my music, and more memories than I could ever fit into a single post. Alabama is where so much of my story lives. It is where I have loved, raised my daughters, made...