• Join us Wed, Oct 13 at Danneman’s (now Sister Louisa’s) in the Old Fourth Ward for the ATL Collective’s most ambitious album yet: Abbey Road by the Beatles. $10 gets you a night of good music, fun, and home brewed Abbey Ale by our very own, Will Norman. Lineup Dirty Pollyanna Tim Brantley Micah Dalton […]

  • We don’t need to tell you anything about Johnny Cash. That’s probably the greatest testament to any artist’s legacy — that their life is elevated to the stuff of myth. The problem with the mythological “Man In Black,” is that we forget all the ways he was just like us, the very reasons he was […]

  • The Collective is back: Wednesday, Jan 27th as featured act Jackson County Line, Tim Brantley, Tyler Lyle, Emily Lynch, Will Robertson, Micah Dalton and David Berkeley take on The Band’s Music from Big Pink. As always, we’ll cover the record in order, in its entirety. As always, we’re upstairs at Danneman’s. As always, it’s BYOB. […]

  • On the cover of 1971’s Tupelo Honey is a dreamy photo of Van Morrison’s then-wife Janet Planet riding horseback, and he’s walking alongside her. They were young and in love. It’s hard to believe Van Morrison was 26 once. He wrote most of the record’s songs in Woodstock, and left because the place was getting […]

  • It’s hard to remember it now, but in the early 80s, Paul Simon’s career and personal life had hit a low. His 1983 Hearts and Bones didn’t sell well and his marriage fell apart. A bootleg cassette of South African township music would ultimately lift him out of his depression and right his career. The […]