Stan Foster: The Singing Bass Player Who Lied His Way Into a Life in Music
Every Wednesday night at Callahan’s Irish Social Club in Mobile’s Garden District, Stan Foster and Phil Proctor take the small stage and pack the house — a ritual that has…
Jacob Brock: The Banker by Day, Cosmic Country Songwriter by Night, Coming to Callahan’s
Two personas share one man in Fairhope. By day, Jacob Brock works at Community Bank in a tucked-in button-down, a steady professional with a family to support. By night, he…
Hitting the Blues Trail: The Photographer Documenting Mississippi’s Roadside History
Stephen “Andy” Anderson has spent most of his 74 years with two loves in hand at the same time: music and a camera. The combination has produced one of the…
The Long Road Back: How a Highway 98 Crash Reshaped Fairhope Musician Molly Thomas and Her Album Tumble Home
On an ordinary August morning in 2023, Fairhope-based musician Molly Thomas left her house with her dog, pointed her car toward Pensacola, and crossed U.S. Highway 98 just south of…
Gulf Coast Journeyman Jimmy Lee Hannaford Poured Four Decades of Songs Into ‘Jubilee’
For nearly five decades, Jimmy Lee Hannaford has made his living the way most working musicians along the Gulf Coast do: night after night, gig after gig, playing the songs…
Interview: Jamell Richardson, the ‘Gulf Coast Blues Boy,’ Returns to Soul Kitchen
SouthSounds 2016 artist Jamell Richardson, known as the “Gulf Coast Blues Boy,” performed downtown Mobile again on Sunday, April 17, 2016, at the Hangout Festival Free Concert Series at Soul…