Music scene · Fort Payne
A small mountain town with an outsized country connection: the band Alabama was based here, and local music runs from Opera House events to church-hall gospel and bluegrass gatherings.
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A small mountain town with an outsized country connection: the band Alabama was based here, and local music runs from Opera House events to church-hall gospel and bluegrass gatherings.
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Fort Payne is a small manufacturing and mountain town best known locally for its sock mills and modest country music activity. Country group Alabama was based here in the 1980s and 1990s, giving the town a real connection to mainstream country.
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