The section in level:deepsouth called “the lists” is for collecting and sharing articles, sound files, videos, and images from Generation X’s early years in the Deep South and from today. Below is a sampler.
Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama’s Coach Bryant by Paul “Bear” Bryant with John Underwood (1975)
Bear Bryant was the college football coach from the early 1960s through this retirement in 1983. Bryant left the game as the winningest coach of all time, with 315 wins, and he had won a half-dozen national championship between 1961 and 1979. This book came out at the height of his success.
“Charlemagne Record Exchange closing after 42 years,” on al.com, December 2019
From the late 1970s until December 2019, Charlemagne was Birmingham’s independent record store. Located in an upstairs shop in Five Points South, the store was a classic record store.
Jason and the Scorchers, “White Lies,” at Farm Aid in 1986
Nashville-based Jason and the Scorchers came early in the “alt-country” movement in the 1980s. This video shows them playing one of their hits at the Farm Aid benefit concert.
Beanland: Rising from the Riverbed (documentary, 2004)
Oxford, Mississippi-based Beanland was an early Southern jam band that played from 1986 to 1993. Members later played in the Kudzu Kings and Widespread Panic.
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