This post is about the Georgia Hall of Fame – Most Famous Inductees. The Hall of Fame has files on over 1,100 artists who are Georgia natives or who have lived in Georgia for a significant period. Each year, a select few are chosen for induction into the Hall of Fame. The inductees represent the diversity of Georgia music, including jazz and swing, country and folk, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, classical, urban, gospel, and contemporary Christian. Non-performers such as producers and music executives have also been inducted (see this list for specifics). The 2006 inductees were: Performer: Gregg…
In Memory of Bill Lowery (1924-2004) and Ray Charles (1930-2004)
A few years ago, Georgia music said farewell to two of its greatest legends with the passing of Bill Lowery and Ray Charles. Lowery and Charles were the first two inductees of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1979 and died days apart from each other. Lowery passed away on June 8 and Charles followed on June 10, 2004. Although their passing sent the music world mourning, their amazing careers and accomplishments are celebrated (and heard) around the world through their musical legacies. William “Bill” James Lowery, Jr. was born Oct. 21, 1924, in Leesville, La. The radio industry…
Musicbank History
Let’s take a closer look at how Musicbank came to its end. Is history repeating itself? As the major record labels began to dole out licenses for online music distribution services, one of the first services to receive licenses from those labels shut its doors quite a few years ago already. Those were the pioneering days of online music distribution. Musicbank, hailed by the recording industry as an example of its adoption of digital music distribution, shut its doors in the early 2000’s and sent its entire staff packing. The company was home to a never-launched music locker service at…