Happy belated 75th birthday(Friday) to Randy Owen of Alabama......

Man, that brings back some memories of my youth! Makes me wish I was sitting around a fire somewhere drinking crown and seven!

Everyone knows his voice, but far fewer know his name.

He works a 40 hour week for a living, just to send it on down the line.

How much Bama can be in one picture?

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My mom was fan club member

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My cousin has seen them in concert numerous times. I'm jealous. And they were all before Jeff died.

I moved from the Augusta, Georgia area in 2007 and stayed away from the south, other than visiting a few weeks a year, for the next 13 years. I did everything in my power to keep from hearing "Christmas in Dixie" during those years because the 4 times that I fricked up and did hear it within an hour or so I had booked the 4 of us airfare back to Atlanta to spend Christmas in Dixie. I would literally nearly start crying just hearing the opening chords and turn it off or get out of wherever it was playing.

Like most southerners who leave I eventually got so homesick and sick of not being in the south that we returned in 2020. I was driving back to Augusta from Athens Saturday evening, just about sundown, and while crossing Clarks Hill Lake on Hwy 47, with a gorgeous sunset, "Christmas in Dixie" came on and I sang along from start to finish with a light heart and a smile on my face....I knew for a certainty I had come home and it was absolutely the right decision.

Thats fricking art! Anything that can cause a grown assed cynical old man to miss home to the point of tears or, conversely, provide that same bastard a sense of contentment and happiness is art anyway you slice it.....

Nobody would write those lyrics now. Different times.

Fun fact- Flboo's first concert he ever attended was the Alabama Roll On concert at the Centroplex in Baton Rouge, La. during the 1980's. Don't remember which year it was.