Sweet Home, Jacksonville: The True Origins of Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Lynyrd Skynyrd story, told erroneously for decades, starts not with Ronnie Van Zant but […]
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Birth of Southern Rock?
I’m as proud of anyone of Jacksonville’s illustrious musical history, which has been my home […]
Sixtieth Anniversary of the Beatles at Jacksonville’s Gator Bowl
It was the biggest thing since the Great Fire of 1901—maybe the biggest thing ever […]
Heckling Duane Allman
The below passage “Heckling Duane Allman” is an excerpt from Michael Ray Fitzgerald‘s new book, Guitar […]
Hurray for Allman Brothers Book, “Brothers and Sisters”
It’s quite common for historians to disagree on events: what happened, how they happened, and […]
Jacksonville Was a Hotbed of Music
In the spring of 1968, my dad would be transferred from Central California to Naval […]
The Guitars that Ate the World (and Florida)
Nineteen-Sixty was the year the electric-guitar conquered the world. There was no escaping it. The […]
Flirtin’ with Disaster: The Rise and Demise of Molly Hatchet
Jacksonville made a name for itself in the world of music as the motherlode of […]
Much Ado about Nada: Beatles Brouhaha at the Gator Bowl
It was the biggest thing since the Great Fire of 1901—maybe the biggest thing ever […]
The Night One Percent Became Leonard Skinner
In 1968, the psychedelic era arrived in Jacksonville, Florida, on a wave of Orange Sunshine. […]