Today’s welcoming sign only boast one little quarter note in the upper-left side. If you read the wiki site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_Shoals, it list all the hits and artist who have recorded in this area. With rich music heritage, why doesn’t this area boast that more? It would be cool if we had an amphitheater attached to a place like The Wharf in Orange Beach. http://www.thewharfal.com/. We were there last week and it has such a cool atmosphere. I know we have the festivals (Keller & Handy) and the concerts at the Hall of Fame that we all mostly go to, but I’m talking about larger concerts.
So, I know I’m not covering the most important, which is jobs/industry. But it just seems, for the entertainment standpoint, that there’d be more to do in this area with all the hit records that have been recorded here. That could be a concert in itself, have all those (alive and still performing) to have a ‘number one hits’ concert.
My husband works in Decatur and we live in Muscle Shoals. I was born and raised here in Colbert County and while family is part of the reason we decided to stay, the main reason was our kids schooling. We looked at houses in Decatur before we built here and it came down to the choice of sending our kids to Decatur or Austin High as opposed to Muscle Shoals High School. He’s worked there for almost ten years at a place that utilizes the federal waterway. When the product that they make is complete, it comes past our area on a barge on the way to the gulf. I wish we had more types of that industry here. If there were a candidate running who proved that they’d go above and beyond lobbying those big industries here, I’d be glad to vote for them.