The Southern Rambler - Artists & Musicians on the Gulf Coast

Can Beautiful, Historic Cairo Survive Years of Corruption and Hate?

13 Jul 2017

“I enjoy your pictures of the history of places frozen in time and the aged areas once thriving. You should check out Cairo.” The trip...

Woodstock, Alabama, or New York City, Every Town Is Someone’s S-Town

19 Jun 2017

By Lynn Oldshue “Good stories teach us about people, great ones alter the way we see ourselves. For many, the new podcast ‘S-Town’ has done...

John Paul White takes down the “Keep Out” sign with new music and touring again

15 Jun 2017

“I had a big ‘Keep Out’ sign around me for a few years.” That is how John Paul White describes the isolation that began in...

Lucy Gafford- The Hair Art Will be in Ripley’s Believe it or Not

08 Jun 2017

“The Shower Hair Masterpieces started as a joke. I was bored and in the shower. I have long hair and it sheds so I started...

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Save The Date for A Ramblin’ Night At The Steeple Oct. 19

01 Jun 2017

Save the Date for A Ramblin’ Night at The Steeple on Thurs. Oct. 19 with Paul Thorn, The Mulligan Brothers, and Eric Erdman. Pre-show in...

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Is Hate a More Powerful Motivator Than Love?

01 Jun 2017

“Hate is a More Powerful Motivator than Love.” That is one of the rules of Roger Stone, the slash-and-burn political consultant behind the election of...

Bonnie Bishop’s Journey from Starkville to Soul

30 May 2017

When the roll of thunder comes Rolling like a distant drum And my ship is lost at sea That’s when you rescue me When I...

Labarron Lewis paints history onto a highway wall in Mobile

23 May 2017

“I started this project about two months ago. The people of Africatown committee saw the work I did in the past and chose me to...

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With A New Beginning and New Music, No One Owns the Secret Sisters Anymore

15 May 2017

How many drops of rain roll off of how many window panes Down to a valley low where a river like me begins to grow...

Missing Mom

13 May 2017

By Lesley Pacey When my brother Tom offered to write mom’s eulogy, I was relieved. We are both journalists, but he is the most...

Becoming Ursula Changed Me – Marti Foster

11 May 2017

“Becoming Ursula is a transformation for me. I am a mother of three and on stage I get to boss people around and they actually...

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Caleb Caudle

10 May 2017

“Connecting with people is the part I love most about playing music. I want to make the most of singing, writing and making records. The...

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Hoping for Change in Morocco and Cuba

27 Apr 2017

“Cuba can’t be an island all of the time, we have to have bridges. You have to let people come in with new ideas. You...

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Muddy Magnolias are the Mississippi Delta and New York City

25 Apr 2017

“Our album came out last October but we spent over a year touring with Gary Clark, Grace Potter and Zac Brown. I don’t know if...

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#Hangoutfest 2017 daily line-up released!

05 Apr 2017

GULF SHORES, Ala., April 5, 2017 /The Southern Rambler/ — The 2017 Hangout Music and Arts Festival dropped the daily artist line-up. Tickets: http://hangoutmusicfest.com/tickets/ TICKETS...

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