Vintage / Sports car show

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CONTACT Alan Thacker (Barber Motorsports & Mountain Brook Car Club) alanthacker73@gmail.com | 205-370-1036   WHEN Friday, May 17  5 pm – 8pm WHERE Rele Street, Lane Parke (between the Grand Bohemian and Revelator Coffee) SPONSORS Barber Motorsports, the Mountain Brook Driving Club and Lane Parke WHY 1) A street party for Lane Parke customers, merchants and … Read More

MIXED BAG | UPBEAT

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Girls Girls Girls (It started-out as a Girl Group thing, but somewhere it just went off the rails.) City At Night (Spooky, funky, occasionally synthy. Downtown After Dark driving music. Inspired by the Beck tune “Scarecrow” — which sounds a lot like the Doors’ “LA Woman,” which includes the lyric, “City at night.” Now you know.) … Read More

MIXED BAG | WILDLY ERRATIC

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Spontaneous Compression 5 (From breezy pop and soulful folk to nasty funk. And most points in between. Largely created, as the title indicates, spontaneously, this one features quite a number of unlikely juxtapositions and — hopefully — happy surprises.)        

NO-APOLOGY FEEL-GOOD MIXES

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Sounds Good To Me #13 (New & old material. Catchy tunes. And, above all, great-feeling records.) Sounds Good To Me #16 (Same formula as above.) Sounds Good To Me #18 (Same formula as above.) Sounds Good To Me #17 (Same formula as above.)           (Photo by Haley899)

Americana

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Country Blues (Self-explanatory, with a few exceptions to the rule.) Cowabunga (Ultra-groovy Alt-Country & Folk. With some exceptions.) Heartland Revisited (Americana Made Great. #2 in the Heartland series.) What’s Your Hurry? (Soulful, mostly–twangin’ tunes, all played at a snail’s pace.) Places In The Heart (Roots music gems from deep inside the Soul mine.) Heartland 2017 – Let’s Twist Again … Read More

Francis Hutcheson Hare, Jr. (“Brother”)

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January 31, 1936 – May 31, 2019 Brother Hare fervently believed his father was the best lawyer he ever knew. It would be equally true to believe that Brother was the best lawyer his father ever knew. After a sudden onset of pneumonia, Brother died peacefully Friday night, surrounded by his family. A tireless worker … Read More