Alabama’s Orion Amphitheater Celebrates Grand Opening With Brittany Howard, Drive-By Truckers
Click here to read the full article. As he gazed upon the thousands gathered for the grand opening of the Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, Alabama, last Friday, singer-songwriter John Paul White articulated the moment with his song “The Good Old Days.”
“There’s something going down in this simple place I grew up in,” sang White, who was born not far down Highway 72 in Muscle Shoals and currently residing in Florence. “Boots are on the ground, singing happy days are here again.”
Titled “The First Waltz,” the weekend gathering at Orion presented an array of artists with connections to Alabama — folks...