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A month and a half before 10 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: Woodstock absorbed the headlines for a generation, roughly a hundred 11 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: and forty thousand people descended upon Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton. 12 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: The Atlanta International Pop Festival was also marketed as Three 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: Days of Peace, Love and Music. Booker T and the 14 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: mg S to Dave Brubek Trio, Joe Walker, cecr The 15 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: Staple Sisters, Janis Joplin. In the first Southern U S 16 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 1: booking of led Zeppelin, every variation of Hippie was in attendance, 17 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: and somebody thought it would be fitting. Despite the backstage 18 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: water supply with LSD and soon many stage hands and 19 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: tech crew saw singing peaches and began melting to the floor. 20 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: Perhaps once discovered that mind bending juice was dumped into 21 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: the nearest creek and sank into the soil, because it 22 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: would at least start to explain how the plethora of 23 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: music that relentlessly pours out of Atlanta is so gloriously 24 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: outside the box where the music plays all night. That 25 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: you got the boogie band blowing that's bound for Hell, 26 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: and when they get to moving, they never stop. You 27 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: just keep on playing that down home beat. You keep 28 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: on laying it down Hot, I said, watching them planes, 29 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: I wish I was one. I'm sitting here thinking about 30 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: my crazy dream. If only I could be there tonight, 31 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: I said, Oh, Atlanta, I got to get back to you, 32 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: little fiend. Georgia. Georgia is on my mind. We were 33 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: writing that sweet song down the highway, heading south the 34 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: Mason Dixon line and rolling up into the four oh four. 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to Atlanta. This city has many names. The North 36 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: of the South, the South of the North, the City 37 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: Too Busy to Hate, Bigley, the Big Hustle, Hotlanta, Atlantis, 38 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: the A T L The Capital of hip Hop. Call 39 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: it what you will, but you're gonna have to call 40 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: it something one way or another. Now, when you think 41 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: of cities that represent hotbeds of music and the arts 42 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: in the United States, off the bat, you might say 43 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: New York, l A, Nashville. But if you're not thinking 44 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,839 Speaker 1: of Atlanta as well, will bless your heart. As they'd 45 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: like to say down South. This is a city of 46 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: many slogans and many music festivals, and it is as 47 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: much of a mindset as it is a place. It 48 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: is an electric cauldron of color and sound like no other. 49 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: It's incredibly diverse and not afraid to proudly define and 50 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: redefine itself, and that prodigious Atlanta spirit permeates the sounds 51 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: of this town. There are a few things you need 52 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: to know about Atlanta. Actually there's a million things you 53 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: need to know, but times of the essence. Before Atlanta 54 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: was Atlanta, it was Terminus Walking Dead Nerds, I'm looking 55 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: at you. Founded in eighteen thirty seven, Terminus was its 56 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: first name, and it was a spider web of train lines, 57 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: all connecting, criss crossing, and dispersing, ground zero for bringing 58 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: tides of new people and ideas and industry and thoughts 59 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: in and out of a city. Rebuilding itself in a 60 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: fractured country. The Great Migration in the early nineteen hundreds 61 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: saw thousands of Black Americans moving northwards and towards cities 62 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: for more opportunities. And music is portable, as are all 63 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 1: things of the heart and soul. So walking parallel to 64 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: the railroad tracks was the legacies and sounds of the 65 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: African diaspora. And from there we can draw a straight 66 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: line to the music we all know in love today. 67 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: And there are some places on Earth where longitude and 68 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: latitude seemed predisposed towards making history, places that hold not 69 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: only the story of our country, but the story of 70 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: modern music. Such a place as the Old fourth Ward, 71 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: one neighborhood in Atlanta that was somehow not only the 72 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: cradle of funk, but the cradle of the civil rights movement. 73 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: The Old fourth Ward was the birthplace of Martin Luther 74 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: King and the psychoactive geo coordinates where James Brown would 75 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: find his sound. Both men coming from the church where 76 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: the finest minds were deciding that it was time to 77 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: make a change, and where the finest musicians were burning 78 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: up the pulpit to give a soundtrack to the moment 79 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: redefining what it meant to be black, to be human, 80 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: to create gospel was moving out of the churches and 81 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: wailing towards soul music. From soul music, James Brown found 82 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: the Blue Plin for funk. From funk, there's a direct 83 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: Atlanta flight to hip hop, and while funk and hip 84 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: hop reigned supreme here, it is by no means the 85 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: only sound of the town. The city with the busiest 86 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: airport in America brought the Sex Pistols for their first 87 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: ever gig in the United States. Punk Rock, country, house, 88 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: R and B all have gigs here and respect each other, 89 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: and that respect is what allows them all to come 90 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:57,359 Speaker 1: together outside the box, instilling an open palette for some 91 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: of America's most experimental and innovative music, giving us Ludicrous TLC, 92 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: Black Crowd Arrested, Developed Indigo Girls, Jermaine Duprie, Brenda Lee, 93 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: John Mayer, Usher, Otis Ready, sugar Land, Monica, Gladys Night, 94 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:17,239 Speaker 1: Little A Little John, Little Richard, narls Bark, Manchester Orchestra, 95 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: Khaki King, Colonel Bruce Hampton, the Change Ray Chair at 96 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,039 Speaker 1: Charles Luke, Bryant, Donald Glover, Berna, Cleet Curtis Harding, The restrain, 97 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: driving and crying and Killer Mike. The baselines are bumping, 98 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,799 Speaker 1: the funcus sticking to you. The mics are feeding back, 99 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: the beats are being built in. Sound waves are breaking 100 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: through the hot and humid evening air. Music is pouring 101 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: out of the windows and restaurants. People are out and 102 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: they are ready. The city is vibrant and diverse, and 103 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: too much is happening in one night. Kendrick Lamar is playing, 104 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: but so is Usher in, the Zach Brown Band and 105 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: Janelle mon A. Check the Billboard Hot one hundred and 106 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: three quarters of it is either artists from Atlanta or 107 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: songs written and produced by folks who live in Atlanta, 108 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: and they all have shows tonight too. There's a thriving 109 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: scene of local all star playing live music and burning 110 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: down roofs all over town. Don't get overwhelmed. Just make 111 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: a plan for your time in Atlanta. You are listening 112 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: to Sound of Our Town, a podcast about the music 113 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: that shaped the city where you are, the city you 114 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: are dreaming of going to for the city are about 115 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: to touch down in. It is about finding, hearing, and 116 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: experiencing the best music happening right now. What sounds and 117 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: places of shape the city's culture and what new sounds 118 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: continue to define it. It's about being together in a 119 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: room to listen and express and why that matters. So 120 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: whether you were quickly dropping in or landing for a 121 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: long stay. In each episode of Sound of Our Town, 122 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: I'll introduce you to the real spaces and the sonic 123 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: stories echoing in a particular town, so that your travel 124 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: is enriched with music. My name is Will Daily. I'm 125 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: an artist, the songwriter and performer, and well now I 126 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 1: guess I'm a podcast or two. I spent the last 127 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: fifteen years slugging it out on the road and these 128 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: temples of song and sound. And in this episode, we're 129 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: touring an American music capital, Atlanta, Georgia. It's a young 130 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: rap duel from Atlanta stuns the crowd of the Source 131 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: Awards in New York City by winning the coveted Best 132 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: New Rap Group award. As they take the stage, they 133 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: are greeted by a chorus of booze from the hip 134 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: hop purists. No one is paying attention to Southern hip 135 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: hop during the East Coast West Coast battles, and especially 136 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: not this eclectic and psychedelic new duo named Outcast as 137 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: parting words from the stage, Andrea three thousand defiantly stated 138 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: the South got something to say, a prophecy, a rallying 139 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: cry from the Atlanta duo that would go on to 140 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: sell twenty five million records when six Grammys were their 141 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: distinctive Southern Atlantean specific afro futuristic genre bending universe. While 142 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: they weren't the first group from Atlanta to make a 143 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: name for itself nationally, they were the weirdest, true outcasts 144 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: from the scene there entirely out of the box. Take 145 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: how the city of Atlanta as a main character, flawed 146 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: and beautiful, a place of blurred tonal boundaries, a terminal 147 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: for the sounds of a nation always expanding and trying 148 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: to understand itself in the process, which makes the task 149 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: of choosing a first stop in Atlanta difficult. Where do 150 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: we go with so many roads in and out? Well, 151 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: you're in the South. It's hot, it's humid. You need 152 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: to stay hydrated. So first things first, acquire the most 153 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: culturally recognizable beverage down here, some sweet tea or peach tea. 154 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: Get some in your bloodstream. Just don't say iced tea, 155 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: it'll give yourself away. And I don't need to tell 156 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: you where, because it's everywhere. Then make your way over 157 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: to the historic West End where resident muse Pied Piper 158 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: Grammy Award winner in west End native Kevy Williams is 159 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: already waiting for you in the street, blasting rich dulcet 160 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: tones through his tenor sacks, bouncing off the asphalt of 161 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard into Howell Park, luring you toward 162 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: the latest and rateist live music being performed at Cafe 163 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: Too I mean It. You can often find Williams performing 164 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: on the street. His band, called wolf Pack, is a 165 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: roving jazz ensemble that doesn't always wait for the audience 166 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: to arrive, that goes and finds it pulling in the 167 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: neighborhood and hopefully that wide eyed travelers sipping on their 168 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: first peacht because a podcast sent them wandering. Kebby Williams 169 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: is the extraordinary person that brings a community together and 170 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: declares live music a necessity that humanity needs. He's one 171 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: of those professional practitioners making spaces for people, shows up regularly, 172 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: gives opportunities, gives kids chances and shows them things they 173 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: never heard in stages to play on key, like the 174 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: vast majority of players in Atlanta. As a pro touring 175 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: and session player, his time on the road is spent 176 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: with Tedeskian trucks. People used to gather in lines outside 177 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 1: the now closed Churchill Grounds Jazz Club to see him play, 178 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: just to hear him from the street. He's a pied piper, 179 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: not only in talent, but in personality and heart. His 180 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: Cafe nine nine two is an art gallery, community gathering space, 181 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: and home of the greatest Sunday night jam session where 182 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: some of the city's best musicians come through acts like 183 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: Krunk Jazz Orchestra, Dian Ferris Conda, and Quinn Mason, and 184 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: they burn it up till two or three in the morning, 185 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: when everything on your phone is trying to get your 186 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: tired thumbs to click on a ticket to a show 187 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: targeted at you algorithmically. An evening at will reintroduce you 188 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: to your analog self and dial your ears in heart 189 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: to the temperature of Atlanta. But you want to go 190 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: to a spot where there's no cover, a place that 191 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: could have served as the inspiration for Roadhouse, where you 192 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: have convinced yourself that you might bump into Patrick Swayzy 193 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: at the door. Okay, we'll go there right after this. 194 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: At the end of a long workday, fresh out of 195 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: a conference or a convention hall, or a taxi or 196 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: the Atlanta International Airport, the idea of any libation on 197 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: the rocks and some live music feels like salvation. You 198 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: over hear someone you barely know saying that a friend 199 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: of a friend who has a friend who lives here 200 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: talk about some true to the soil spot that the 201 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: natives are door, it's just down the street. You tag along. 202 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: As you approach a squat flat looking concrete building, you 203 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: notice the windows are criss crossed with bars, and there's 204 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: contrastingly cheerful neon colors blinking through the clouded windows. A 205 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: few people in your hastily assembled party peel off, no thanks, 206 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: that's fine, uber them back to the hotel bar please. You, however, 207 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: are grinning like a cheshire cat. You walk inside. It's dark, 208 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: deep you painted cinder blocks greet you. So does a 209 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: friendly bartender, some pool tables and a stage that's been 210 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:47,320 Speaker 1: beaten up since nineteen two. Congratulations, you have made it 211 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: to the North Side Tavern, one of Atlanta's oldest dives, 212 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: and it's so proud and self aware of its diving nous. 213 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: It holds firm to its authenticity as this city redevelops 214 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: around it. You take in the eclectic crowd and the 215 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: chill vibe. This place is all right, so all right 216 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: that it has been used as a filming location for 217 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 1: dive bars in Atlanta's dominating film industry. Maybe you've already 218 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: been here and you're binging. It has history and people 219 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: inside that love this place. You get a cheap drink 220 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: as a local band takes the stage and starts wailing 221 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: the blues straight at you. You find your body moving 222 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 1: and swang to the sound of the pains You feel 223 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: rewound and played back at you with a wink, a sigh, 224 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: some exhausted joy and weariness. This is the real deal, 225 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: and you are full of pathos and gratitude to be 226 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,599 Speaker 1: hearing it here below the Bible belt. This is the 227 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: no cover spot. Weeknights are for residencies when the likes 228 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: of Lola's gang, Uncle Sugar and Danny Miller and friends. 229 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: But just make sure you tip everyone well. You know 230 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: Southern hospitality, but you traveled hard and you just want 231 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: to sit back and take it all in the listening 232 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: rooms are a big part of the live music lover's journey. 233 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: In eight e l has plenty Big Boy in Andrea 234 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: three thousand if openly sung the praises of one such room, 235 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: a place that Dion Sanders, mc hammer and Shaquille O'Neill 236 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: have gone to just listen. This one has been said 237 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: to be the club that runs the music industry. Future 238 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: and Drake have written songs about it. It helped launched Mekos' career. 239 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: It is where DJs seek out and break new anthems 240 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: based on the response of the dancers. And by club, 241 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: I don't mean music club and by dancers I mean strippers. 242 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: At Magic City, the most storied and certainly the most 243 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: famous strip club in Georgia or possibly ever, where the 244 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: prodigiously talented and keen eared female dancers, along with the DJs, 245 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: act as a one stop hip hop and our machine, 246 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: Young Thug, Future and two Chains have even performed there. 247 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: So just release your pearls from their precious grasp. Atlanta 248 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: knows how to get it done. When access to the 249 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: industry is either blocked or dominated by other cities or 250 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: just playing saturated, you have to think outside the box 251 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: create your own way, as you would your own sound. 252 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: Atlanta knows these truths you have to when you're creating sounds. 253 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 1: The world isn't yet ready for The songs that the 254 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 1: dancers vibe on stage are, without a doubt, the songs 255 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: that will make everyone else do the same. In a 256 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: popular nightclub, and then you're racking up streams and you're 257 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: on the radio and you're out to the world. So 258 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: just bring a stack of dollar bills, because if they 259 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: start playing your favorite song, you better be ready to 260 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: make it rain if you wanted to start climbing the charts. 261 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: Oh but you meant listening room where the people are 262 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: playing instruments and it's quiet, where the audience is there 263 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: for the pin drop culture and an expectation of some 264 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: truth spun uniquely from an artist's soul. Got it? You 265 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: just got to get to Eddie's Attic. There's a reason 266 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: people refer to this as the songwriters sanctuary. If you 267 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: are easing your way into the electricity of the Atlanta nightlife, 268 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: but you're feeling a bit more on the mellow side. 269 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: A drink in some minor chords under sweetly sung melodies 270 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: in an intimate room with perfect Sound is just six 271 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: miles from downtown and also home of perhaps the greatest 272 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: open mic in history. Atlanta boasts a ton of fantastic 273 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: open mics around town, but Eddies is the granddaddy of 274 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: them all. Have you ever heard of an open mic 275 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: where people drive a thousand miles to get on it? 276 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: I think not an open mic where the legs of 277 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: Shan Mullins, the Civil Wars, and Jennifer Nettles of sugar 278 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: Land got started. If you win, you get a chance 279 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: to get asked back, and that is enough. John Mayer 280 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: dialed his sound in Eddies, a Northern transplant who needed 281 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: a drop of that a t L juice to cultivate 282 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: his own kaleidoscopic outside the box brand where pop blue 283 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: singer songwriter and Jerry Garcia fill In can bizarrely make 284 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: sense in one artist, a twenty one century pop psychedelic superstar. 285 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: Of course, it's Atlanta. Eddie's is a must stop venue 286 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: for any touring songwriter and also a hotbed of emerging 287 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: Atlanta singer songwriter talent. I would tell you this is 288 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: a great place to bring a date, but you better 289 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: not talk to them during the show. If you are 290 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: not there to listen and listen intently. You need to 291 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: go to the back patio and watch the show on CCTV. Literally, 292 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: there's a sign on the stage that tells you to 293 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: be quiet or go to their back room. You never 294 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: know who you might see it. Eddie's any and all 295 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: types of live and original music, Brandy Carlyle, India r Re, 296 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 1: Justin Bieber, even tea paint has been known to stop, 297 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: buy and grab the mic. Just silence your cell phones 298 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: before you walk in. But this is Hotlanta. You can 299 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: melt just thinking about it. So let's embrace the sweat 300 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: because maybe your flight is delayed, your peacht has melted. 301 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: Like the minds of the stage crew at the Atlanta 302 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: Pop Festival, you're hoping to get your face melted to 303 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: alleviate your travel frustrations. Atlanta is always primed to answer 304 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: the call. The title of historic music venue is relative. 305 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: Historic means something open in the late twentieth century. Like 306 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: I've said, a t l is a city on the go, 307 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: and it is easy to paint outside the lines when 308 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: you are young and hungry. It loves to move and 309 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: shake and tear itself down and rebuild and rebrand and 310 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: restring its guitar. So it's an accomplishment in a world 311 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: where it's all changing for Smith's Old Bar to achieve 312 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: elder statesman status. Open and the unlikely hot spot of 313 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: Atlanta's oldest strip mall, it is the place to go 314 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: if you are in dire need of a hard hitting 315 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: rock beat. David Bowie and New York have played there, 316 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: so as the Dirty Dozen, Brass Band, Heartless Bastards, and 317 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: The Wallflowers. All rock and country have a home here, 318 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: but so does industrial and experiment. The live hip hop 319 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: like Hero and soulful singer songwriters like Sunlittle Bar, food 320 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 1: and beer is plentiful. It's a watering hole for the 321 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: melted in the melt team. Smith's Old loves new sounds 322 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: bouncing off its time tested floors, a dependable room for 323 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 1: national and local alike, and of course the seeker of 324 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: intimate shows that can feel huge, especially like the ones 325 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: at the Tabernacle. A building built in that started out 326 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: as a hospital and turned into a Baptist church might 327 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: not seem like it would be a great place to 328 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: catch a show, but yet it is. The building that 329 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: now holds this beautiful venue has a history of healing 330 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,360 Speaker 1: the body and soul, and isn't that what a good 331 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: show is all about. There's something psychedelic in the air 332 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: waves here, and walking into the Tabernacle have you feeling 333 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: like you're Alice in Wonderland falling down a hot, pink 334 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: rabbit hole. It's gothic, it's ornate, it glitters, it's funky 335 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 1: and flamboyant, and it's many levels will allow you to 336 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: hang out in whatever personal space bubble you do or 337 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: do not want that day. But heads up, a sold 338 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 1: out show will have you packed tight on the floor, 339 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: so be prepared to embrace the sweat, as I was saying, 340 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 1: or take a seat is not a bad one of 341 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: the house. The stairs are steep, though, so if you 342 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: like to wear high heels, you might want to consider 343 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: converse that night. It's a midsized room where in the 344 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: past you could have gotten an a t l dose 345 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: of Lenny Kravitz, the Pat Metheny Group, Snoop Dogg, Rancid, 346 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: and Outcast comedy rock, hip hop jam bands. Everybody wants 347 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: to play for you at the Tabernacle and melts your face. 348 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: Elton John stepped inside here once and fell so in 349 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: love that the next day, he called the schedule a 350 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: live DVD special of his album Drumroll Please Peachtree Road. 351 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: I'm sorry I keep talking about peaches without getting you 352 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: some eats. You're in the South and you might want 353 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,879 Speaker 1: some soul food. However, if you want to immerse yourself 354 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: in the truly diverse and international flavor of the city, 355 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: head to Buford Highway and just start walking. Atlanta eats, 356 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,719 Speaker 1: and it eats good. In this long row of ethnic 357 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 1: restaurants representing over two dozen countries from around the world 358 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: will leave your head spinning in your stomach. Happy locate 359 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: nons Thaie Fine Dining near Atlantic Station. Or if barbecue 360 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: is calling you with its media sirens song, fear not. 361 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 1: Some of the finest pit masters are around here to 362 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,640 Speaker 1: save you. Try Rodney Scott's Whole Hog Barbecue. Just try 363 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: not to eat the whole Hog. You've got shows to 364 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: get to. Now. You could design a lifetime around the 365 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: festival life of Atlanta. The universe and the minds are 366 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: constantly expanding via collective of large crowds and amazing music, 367 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,120 Speaker 1: which is great for those stage crew hands who had 368 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,360 Speaker 1: a wild time more than fifty years a go at 369 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: the first Atlanta Pop Fest. If they managed to become 370 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: lifers in this profession after that ride, there's plenty of 371 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: work for them now. But even the sound cruise and 372 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 1: stage hands, with the amount of fests in Atlanta, need 373 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: to get out the calendar so they don't get tripped up. 374 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: You're already thirsty setting up monitors for this long and 375 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 1: glorious jam packed jam music weekend at the end of April. 376 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: Sweetwater for twenty is the kaleidoscope of mind bending, extended solos, 377 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: and food and sustainability that flashes you right back or 378 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: is there something in the water again? Whatever it all works. 379 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: Trails of the late sixties, sun Bleached color Sworld transport 380 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: you back as Gary Clark Jr. Pilot says Gibson s 381 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: g through congregation of tones and J. J. Gray and 382 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: Mofro turned the crowd into dancing Roman noodles oh Man 383 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: the very next week, and may you book a job 384 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: bringing the scaffolding for Shaky Knees Festival, one of the 385 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: South's best all rock fests. Summer has not dropped its 386 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: heat on you yet, but during King Gizzard and the 387 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: Lizard Wizard, you're convinced you can speak green tree frog 388 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 1: and nine inch nails get you closer to God. You 389 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: go home and take a two week nap before pulling 390 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: yourself off the couch into the West End for the 391 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: Malcolm X Festival in May. You've been working this one 392 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: for three decades. There's not a lot of heavy lifting 393 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:30,159 Speaker 1: on this job because of this resilient festival lifts itself 394 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: your brain resting state when it's not around Live music 395 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: is akin to a Rubik's cube and a washing machine, 396 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: but all the colors of your mind find their right angles. 397 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,479 Speaker 1: When a local act like Museki Scales and the Common 398 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: Ground Collective play a relentless and formless set merging afro beat, 399 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: funk and jazz. Are they setting their tempos to your 400 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: heart rate? During the two hour set, you write justice 401 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: is a living, breathing thing that must be cared for, 402 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: followed by a short dissertation on ethics for a peaceful 403 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: future on a piece of paper you can not find 404 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: in the morning. Never mind, because the very next weekend 405 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: in May, you are seeing trails upon trails working lights 406 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, the one fest you insist 407 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 1: on working each year. They don't even need to pay 408 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: you the three day fest is free, and you would 409 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: stack these speakers for free. And how is this sound 410 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: system even going to be loud enough for the amount 411 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 1: of people that show up? You care a lot here. 412 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: This is one of the leading jazz festivals in the world. 413 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: It represents Atlanta's place in jazz history. Then you remember 414 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 1: electricity doesn't matter. The energy is the music. You've known 415 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: this all along, and you shed a tear now that 416 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: you remember yet again. How can you worry? As Keppi 417 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: Williams and Mackay mcgraven explained through sonics, that we all 418 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,880 Speaker 1: come from Stardust. As that single tier continues its path 419 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: down your cheek, you lock and hold eyes with a 420 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: family of five in lawn chairs. You text your X 421 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: that jazz predates time and humankind, and thankfully forget to 422 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: press send. And May has been busy work your old body, 423 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: as your soul is full. You can no longer hear 424 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 1: frequencies above six thousand hurts, and you can't wait for 425 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: September because you are working music midtown. Then you get 426 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: the call that Atlanta's biggest fest is canceled. Something about 427 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 1: guns man. People still like those things. You were certain 428 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: in early September nineteen seventy, that Jimmie Hendricks would unite 429 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: us all around the fire of a burning strat and 430 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: we'd renounced instruments of death. What happened, Well, you could 431 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 1: use the weekend off. So it makes you sad not 432 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: to see the biggest names in pop culture music. You 433 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: technically know none of them going in every year. But 434 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: then music Midtown hips you to act like post Malone, 435 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: Cardi B and Black Pumas and Piedmont park Man. You're 436 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: bummed to be missing who you're missing in two oh 437 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: But there is imagine Fest in September. After Midtown is canceled. 438 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: You quickly pick up some work running lights at this immersive, 439 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: emotional e d M dance trance four day weekend at 440 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: Kingston Downs. It is a hallucination that comes to life, 441 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: and some of them are like old friends. The theme 442 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: of imagine Fest this year is water. Ah, that good 443 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: old water from an Atlanta festival. You got stories to 444 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: tell if you could just stop floating yourself for a moment. 445 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 1: And then there is one fest in October where you're 446 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: not working. One is just for you. You are celebrating 447 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 1: the heart of the city you love in the peak 448 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: of urban progressive music. The fifty thousand people in attendance 449 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: are your friend. In fact, you actually call everyone friend 450 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,280 Speaker 1: as you jump and shake and grind through two October 451 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: days in the old fourth Ward. One Music Fest is 452 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: the love letter to Atlanta. You know every word in 453 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: that letter, and it's good to be home. You've basped 454 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: in performances by Farrell, Kendrick Lamar, Raphael Sadick, Anderson pop Rikabadou, 455 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:56,919 Speaker 1: the Roots and Outcast. It feels like a family reunion. 456 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: Harmony and groove that never end, soul trapped, gospel, jazz 457 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: and hip hop. And this year all you want is 458 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: a set from Lauren Hill. One Music Fest is the 459 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: Terminal come to life. This is the Vatican of Atlanta, 460 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: but it's the hidden gem and all of your pro 461 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: sound adventures that happens at the end of September. All 462 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: you have to do is set up some small p 463 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: a's in Oakland Cemetery to gratefully raise the dead. You 464 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: start hearing voices the most beautiful kind. Thankfully, it's the performers. 465 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: The crowd under the grass is built in the crowd 466 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: above brings their blankets and chairs, food trucks roll up 467 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: and craft beer pours. The coziest celebration of life. Tales 468 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 1: are passed around about the time that Arrested Development showed 469 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: up to play This year, it's custo headlining, even for 470 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 1: the bones. It feels outside the box if it's for 471 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 1: the living and the remembering tunes from the tombs is 472 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: a sublime microfest at the end of the summer and 473 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 1: the calm down that you need, one of the most 474 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: unique events in your unique life of music all the 475 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: time and after work you are starving, You pack up 476 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: your van and you head to Eclipse the Luna for 477 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: Spanish topics, replenishing yourself with pay a, a traditional plan 478 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: and a picture of sangria and wonderful live Latin music. 479 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 1: You even sign up for dance lessons because in your 480 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: sixty nine years of working stages, tweaking the sound of 481 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: your town at a heavy dose of fests, you are 482 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: still growing and still learning and still expanding. You love 483 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: your city, You love your job, you love your life. 484 00:26:47,520 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: You love this whole trip. There is so much richness 485 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: in the sounds and history of a t l it 486 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: helps to touch up on it and maybe prepare before 487 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 1: you arrive. If you were rolling down Euclid Avenue to 488 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: check out some record shops with a cup of that 489 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: peacht in one hand and a copy of Atlanta by 490 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 1: Michael Schmelling and the other. Then you're doing all right. 491 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: The visually stunning book of hip Hop Photographs also includes 492 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: essays on the city's hip hop culture by writer Khalifa 493 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: sen A, interviews with key Atlanta luminaries like Gucci, Maine, 494 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: Andre three Thousand, Big Boy, Shady Low, and Ludicrous. The 495 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: kind of book you can leave at home to boast 496 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: about your four oh four adventures. Another way to root 497 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,719 Speaker 1: yourself and a t L is the book Trapped History 498 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: Atlanta Culture in the Global Impact of Trapped Music. Author A. R. 499 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 1: Shaw takes readers on a journey deep into the traps 500 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: of Atlanta, the music, the history, and the lifestyle that 501 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 1: influenced it, while featuring the back stories and interviews of 502 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: some of the pioneers of a style of hip hop 503 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: that took the city in the world further outside the box. 504 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: On the once segregated side of the fourth Board, there 505 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: was and still is a street called Auburn Avenue. It 506 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,199 Speaker 1: was the place for black entertainment in the city, but 507 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 1: was also the street where a generation of ministers and 508 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: civic leaders were fighting for integration, political power, and equal pay. 509 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,680 Speaker 1: Imagine strolling down Auburn Avenue, thick gospel harmonies, roaring through 510 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: the pews and soaring through the streets. James Brown is 511 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: doing free concert under the overpass in the Royal Petecock Nightclub. 512 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: Has Sam Cook in Little Richard on the Marquee. The 513 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: history of how Atlanta became the hip hop capital all 514 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: starts here. The most tolerant and open aspects of Atlanta's 515 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: vibe ring on from Dr King's Truth through the Air 516 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 1: to this day, and that openness is the breath of 517 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: life to innovation, creativity and art that this city has 518 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: become known for. As Andre Benjamin said, the South has 519 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: something to say. In Atlanta in particular, is singing its 520 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: own tune. There is work to be done, and there 521 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: are people doing the work, turning personal truth, identity, neighborhood, 522 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 1: and the complexity of living in the South and America 523 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: into music that resonates with millions of years. And you 524 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: can set your compass toward the constellation of the Southern 525 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: Cross and pick up the vibrations of what a wildly 526 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: talented and pro local scene of players, singers, road warriors, 527 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: film industry artisans, producers and beatmakers are sending down the 528 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: tracks and one more thing. They held a second Atlanta 529 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: Pop Festival. The following year Woodstock had come and gone 530 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: and left its mark. People were more freaked out, and 531 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: by people, I'm authority. This time. The exploration of the 532 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: hippie edge of the post sixties era was too much 533 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: for the gatekeepers of Atlanta society, and they vowed to 534 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: make the second annual fest the last. And they succeeded, 535 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: it seemed. But Atlanta is a festival town that hippie 536 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: juice had already gotten in the water, Evident when Richie 537 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: Haven's played Here comes the Sun directly to a rising 538 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: star in the hours of the early morning, evident in 539 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,160 Speaker 1: the fact that this was Jimmie Hendrix's largest US crowd 540 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: of his career, and evident when Hendricks was later to 541 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 1: be played on film by son of Atlanta fellow traveler 542 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: Outside the Box, Andre Benjamin. We're all drinking from the 543 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,920 Speaker 1: same cup. A direct line. The tracks lead away from 544 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: Terminus into America as it sways to the beat to 545 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,239 Speaker 1: the song, to the feedback or the land of the 546 00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: free and the home of the musically brave. Well you've 547 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: been listening to the Sound of Our Town. We got 548 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: twelve episodes for you this first season, and this one 549 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: makes five. Oh my god, Oh my god. Where are 550 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: we going next? I guess we'll find out on Thursday. 551 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 1: If you want to follow me or chat about the 552 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: live music scene in your city, hit us up on 553 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: Instagram at Will Daily Official and at Double Elvis, or 554 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: on Twitter at Will Daily and at Double Elvis FM. 555 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: Sound of Our Town is a production of Double Elvis 556 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio. The show is executively produced by 557 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: Jake Brennan, Brady Sadler, and Carly Karioli for Double Elvis 558 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: Production assistance by Matt Boden. The show is created, written, 559 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 1: and hosted, and scored by me Will Daily. Additional writing 560 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: on this episode by Samantha Ferrell. For sources, see the 561 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 1: show notes. Music on this episode was composed and performed 562 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 1: by me Will Daily. You can check out my music 563 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: just by spelling my name correctly anywhere you listen to music. 564 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: He's got to do D A I L E. Y. 565 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: I'm on Spotify, Apple, band Camp and always at Sound 566 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: of Our Town pod dot Com and will Daily dot 567 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: Com additional music. On this episode you heard a song 568 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: by Samantha Farrell She's All Over. This episode you also 569 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: heard an additional composition by the artist Cliff Notes and 570 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 1: shout outs to Sheila Pool, Musegee Scales and j C 571 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,200 Speaker 1: Sol j C Mr Fitness on I G Okay, I'm 572 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: off to the next town. In fact, I'm playing September 573 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 1: two in Portsmouth, New Hampshire at the music Hall Lounge. 574 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: Thank you all so very much for your reviews the 575 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: sharing for the following it has made a huge difference. 576 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: And um, I'm the Clinton and has always hit me 577 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: up if you think I should come to your spot, 578 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: your town, your house concert series and as always thank 579 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:49,719 Speaker 1: you for your ears