Brent Cobb: Southern Star Tour

The American south isn’t just Brent Cobb’s home. It’s his muse, too. A Georgia native, he fills his Grammy-nominatedsongwriting with the sounds and stories of an area that’s been home to southern rockers, soul singers, countrylegends, and bluesmen. Cobb has a name for that rich tapestry of music —”southern eclectic” — and he offers up hisown version of it with his newest album, Southern Star.

“Down here, there’s a lot going on and there’s nothing goingon at the same time,” he says. “You’ve got all these different cultures in the south, and everything is mixed intogether. Otis Redding and Little Richard were from the same town in Georgia. So were the Allman Brothers. JamesBrown and Ray Charles grew
up right down the road. All these sounds reflect the South itself, and that music has influenced the whole world. It’sdefinitely influenced mine…”

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