It’s an August night in Athens’ Caledonia Lounge and Holly Ross, lead singer/guitarist of UK’s Lovely Eggs, is holding court atop the dimly-lit stage. With a drum mallet in one
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Suddenly, Will Cullen Hart is talking about stray cats. And no, not the 1980s rockabilly band. “There’s so many of them in Athens, they’re all over the place,” he said,
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July 2009, 40 Watt, Athens, Ga. The sign leading into the 40 Watt that night read “Absolutely No Photos” which is not something you see too often. Most musicians stopped
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For many musicians, writing, playing and recording music is not their full-time job. Too often (and this is certainly true in Athens) the singer in the midnight slot at Caledonia
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They had the big show booked, the studio time slotted, the songs poised for production. What they didn’t have was the time. It was the start of March, and the
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Since this is a tale about control, let’s start by stopping. Pull your eyes off the page and scan the horizon. Off in the distance they sit (no, wrong word,
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Thirty years. It’s not a blip of time, certainly not in this fast-moving world of gigabytes, bullet trains and Usain Bolt. But there’s that adage about everything old being new