Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Concerts & Live Music

Bud Smith: guitar, lead vocals, keyboards, bass. Kris Smith: vocals and percussion. Evan Jackson: drums. Influences include The Beatles, Pink Floyd, CSNY, The Allman Brothers, Rolling Stones, Radio Head, INXS, Talking Heads and more. Acoustic, alternative, classic rock.

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Ryan Balthrop draws inspiration from his southern upbringing in Mobile, Alabama, and from his years living and performing in the Eastern Caribbean. He has performed over 150 shows a year with various southeastern bands since 1994, and is finally coming into his own with his long-awaited solo effort - a sophisticated blend of Americana, folk, blues, and a taste of the islands. The album spans several genres, and represents Balthrop’s powerful songwriting capabilities. His soulful, sometimes delicate vocals drive home the themes that intertwine to create an atmosphere of inner reflection and emotion. Still the themes relate to a wide audience, speaking to all of us, who have lost, and continued to love.

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Rebecca Barry is the fearless leader of the New Orleans funk/jazz/rock/r&b ensemble Bust, which released the critically acclaimed album “New Hope” in 2003. Rebecca is truly an amazing saxophone player, earning a Masters degree from the prestigious Jazz Studies program under the direction of Ellis Marsalis at the Universiy of New Orleans. A short list of artists she has performed with include: George Clinton (P-Funk), Cyril Neville, The Coasters, George Porter(The Meters, Tori Amos), and Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe. She has also performed with many jazz heavyweights including: Ellis Marsalis, Dave Liebman, Rick Margitza, and many more. Hear this amazing talent, and experience the “funk feel good music” Bust is known for!

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This 5-piece dance band serves as the house band for Nolan's in Gulf Shores Tuesday through Saturday evenings. With 5 singers, Midnight Confessions can offer great vocal blends, and each singer has their own unique style to add to the mix. The group is first and foremost a variety dance band covering many genres from the 50s to today: country, R&B, soul classics, swing, reggae . . . the list goes on.

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Local talent Jason Justice entertains at numerous venues throughout the Gulf Coast area. Alone or as part of The Hung Jury, Jason will have you dancing to country/alternative/jam music all night.

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Chubby Carrier is undeniably "The World's Premier Zydeco Showman." Prepare to be funkified, zydecofied, and the pleasant victim of a Chubby party. Expect to experience a swamp-funky zydeco good time. There ain't no party like a Chubby party!

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Thanks to his astonishing gift for crafting addictive, soulful songs and the high-energy reputation of his shows, Corey Smith is one of modern country’s hottest young artists. “I try not to think about the popularity,” says Corey. "Be thankful for what you have and make the most of it." It’s a lesson Corey learned growing up, and it’s also the theme behind the title track to his 6th album released on his own Undertone Records label, Keeping Up with the Joneses. “[The song] has a lot of literal truths in it and traces a story,” Corey says. “But there is also a lot beneath the surface that goes a long way toward explaining the values that make me who I am.” A huge part of Corey’s success has been the wildfire-like viral chatter of his file-sharing fans—which flatters him to no end. “I’m just grateful that people are out there spreading it around. It’s what’s made my career possible.”

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Ringo Starr's music, as a solo artist and as a Beatle, is permeated with his personality. His warmth and humor, and his exceptional musicianship have given us songs we all know and love, including "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Don't Pass Me By," "Octopus' Garden," "Photograph," "It Don't Come Easy," "Back Off Boogaloo," "You're Sixteen (You're Beautiful and You're Mine)," "Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go," "The No No Song," and "Never Without You."

Since beginning his career with The Beatles in the 1960s, Ringo Starr has been one of the world's brightest musical luminaries. He has enjoyed a successful and dynamic solo career as a singer, songwriter and drummer, an active musical collaborator, and as an actor. Drawing inspiration from classic blues, soul, country, honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll, Ringo continues to play an important role in modern music with his solo recording and touring.

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Gaining fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, Miranda Lambert has quickly risen to true stardom. Her first album brought out four Top 40 hits: "Me and Charlie Talking," "Bring Me Down," "Kerosene" and "New Strings." Two Top 20 hits, "Famous in a Small Town" and "More Like Her," graced the airwaves from her second album, as well as her first Top Ten hit, "Gunpowder & Lead." "The House That Built Me" became her first Number One hit in 2009. Garnering recognition from the Grammy, Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association organizations, we know Miranda is just beginning what will be surely be a long and highly successful country music career.

Thomas Rhett, 21, hails from Valdosta, GA where music became a part of his life from the very beginning. Grown up in a musical family and watching his father Rhett Akins score hit after hit, he began playing guitar and writing songs in high school. While a student at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Thomas Rhett signed his first publishing deal with EMI and shortly thereafter landed his first cut on Jason Aldean’s platinum album, My Kinda Party, with his song “I Ain’t Ready To Quit.” A year later, he signed his first record deal with Scott Borchetta and the Big Machine Label Group. He has recently opened up for artists such as ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blake Shelton, Pat Green, David Nail, and The Dirt Drifters, and is currently working on his debut album for the Big Machine Label Group.

Lee Brice started working as a songwriter and by 2007, had a cut for Jason Aldean and co-wrote Garth Brook's "More than a Memory" which debuted at number one. In 2007, he also released his first single, "She Ain't Right," which peaked at #29. He followed with "Happy Endings" and "Upper Middle Class White Trash" which both also made the charts. In 2009, Brice charted again with his fourth single, "Love Like Crazy" which reached Top Ten on the country music charts in July 2010 during its forty-sixth week on the c

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Donald Jay Fagen is best known as the co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter (along with partner Walter Becker) of Steely Dan. Fagen is known for his use of complex jazz harmonies, elaborate arrangements, and exacting attention to detail. Fagen penned a group of songs based on his experiences as a young man in 1950’s America, and the resulting album, 1982's The Nightfly, is one of the first albums to be recorded entirely digitally. The album has been certified platinum by the RIAA. After a quiet time musically, he returned in 1993 with Kamakiriad, which is a conceptual album based on a car journey. The album was produced by Walter Becker and represented the first collaboration between the two since Gaucho. This collaboration reignited Steely Dan and they released two more albums, the Grammy award-winning Two Against Nature in 2000, and Everything Must Go in 2003. In 2006, Fagen released his third solo album, Morph the Cat, which is partly based on old age and death, and was well received by fans.

A prominent part in the soundtrack to our times, Michael McDonald, as an artist and songwriter, has been awarded an impressive five Grammys. Though comfortable onstage, he has never been a flashy entertainer, nor has he been distracted by passing trends. Instead, McDonald has triumphed through music alone, with a remarkable voice and a body of well-crafted songs. Few have made such an impact with so much substance and so little hoopla. With a career that has seen innumerable chart successes and sales feats, and as an artist who has maintained consistent popularity and earned numerous accolades in both personal and professional arenas, McDonald remains the artist's artist and an enduring presence in popular music.

Following nine years as a soloist and band member in the U.S., Sweden and England, Boz Scaggs appeared on the first two albums of the Steve Miller Band and soon after secured a solo contract with Atlantic Records in 1968. In 1976, he linked up with

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Kelly Clarkson has earned herself millions of devoted fans thanks to her feisty, straight-talking lyrics. Clarkson’s hits such as “Miss Independent,” “Since U Been Gone,” “Walk Away,” “Never Again,” and “Mr. Know It All,” are bold empowerment anthems that she sells to the fullest with her soulful, powerhouse voice and down-to-earth relatability. Clarkson first appeared on the public’s radar in 2002 during the first season of American Idol. “When I auditioned, my apartment in Los Angeles had recently burned down and I had a box of photographs to my name,” Clarkson says. “I figured I’d get to sing and make some money to pay the bills. Nobody thought that show was going to be what it is now.” Of course Clarkson won and went on to become an international pop icon, selling over 20 million albums worldwide (including 10 million in the U.S.) and notching seven singles on the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She has released four studio albums, 2003’s double-platinum No. 1 Thankful, 2004’s 6x-platinum Breakaway (which sold over 12 million copies worldwide, spawned five Top 10 hits, and stayed on the charts for two years), 2007’s platinum-selling My December, and 2009’s All I Ever Wanted, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 and produced the smash singles “My Life Would Suck Without You” and “Already Gone.” Clarkson has also received two Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two MTV Music Awards, and 11 Billboard Music Awards.

The Fray: a foursome whose melodic pop-rock songs and soaring vocals resonate with sprawling tapestries and tales of hopefulness and heartache. They achieved national success with their first single, "Over My Head (Cable Car)," which became a Top 10 hit in the United States. The release of their second single, "How to Save a Life," brought the band worldwide fame. The song charted in the top three of the Billboard Hot 100 and was a Top 5 single in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The group

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Kent “Cowboy” Johnson, at the age of 16, was on his own and ended up in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he spent the 1970s working the mines, playing music and living hard. Sober now for 24 years, Cowboy sings songs of pain, loss, regret and redemption. His voice betrays the truth that he has actually lived these songs. He has danced with his demons and you can hear them in the soulful honesty of his voice. Cowboy Johnson knows thousands of songs and writes his own when the spirit moves him. Mostly he is a singer of great songs and he doesn’t care where they come from. He moved to Austin, Texas in 1996, where he began to tap into a goldmine of songs by Texas writers, expanding his already extensive repertoire.

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Elaine is a dynamic and passionate performer. Her roots are deeply embedded in country music, but she mixes the traditional sound with a rock-a-billy/soulful flare.

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Big Muddy is a combination of blues, soul, southern rock and country music, featuring some of the best musicians in the southeast: Robbie Fleming, Harold Floyd, Larry T Wilson, Gene Burleson.

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Brent Burns is no stranger to notoriety. In response to the oil shortages of the 1980s, Burns wrote the hit song, “Cheaper Crude or No More Food,” which sold 200,000 copies the first day it was released. Paul Harvey played the song three times; the first and only song ever played in the program’s 35-year history.

Burns’ fame has continued with guest appearances on all three major networks, interviews on the BBC, and featured articles in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Billboard Magazine.

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Justin Wall is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Mobile, Alabama. His unique mix of musical genres, along with his previous band HMC, has earned him the nickname “The Heavy Metal Cowboy.” Wall says his music is “a soulful and confessional sound with influences varying from rock-n-roll, blues, country, and folk to anything else my ears find necessary to give the message I want to send.” He is known for his ability to entertain while simultaneously conveying emotion through music. The subject matter and lyrical content of his music ranges from light-hearted celebrations of comedic mischief and good times (such as the country influenced “Migrate to the Tailgate”) to suicidal depression, internal conflict, and spiritual warfare (like the sobering, rock-driven ballad “Voices”). Wall currently performs primarily as a solo acoustic act and he is in the process of putting together a backing band. He can be seen frequently performing and collaborating with local and regional artists in and around the Southeast.

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Top Hat and Jackie are popular performers in Lower Alabama and have a strong following. They also own STRING-A-LONG music store (guitar sales/repairs), give guitar lessons, and operate a recording studio on Canal Road in Orange Beach.

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Jon Cowart is an amazing talent who can be seen playing guitar and singing in solo gigs or as part of the popular Cornbred band he formed.

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As a seasoned singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Adam Holt has written and produced his own music in three albums over the last eight years, blending blues, rock, gospel, country and jazz to create a roots rock sound all his own. His cover song selection pays tribute to artists such as ZZ Top, Tom Petty, Counting Crows and Peter Frampton. His partnership in Dancing Dog Studio in southern Alabama has provided him a home for his recording, producing, and mixing endeavors. In whatever venue, Adam’s goal is always to make down-to-earth, quality music that brings people together for a good time.

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Wes Bayliss is a Gulf Shores country artist.

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These guys can perform most any style of music. Come hear what they have in store for you!

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Big Muddy is a combination of blues, soul, southern rock and country music, featuring some of the best musicians in the southeast: Robbie Fleming, Harold Floyd, Larry T Wilson, Gene Burleson.

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When Sugarcane Jane makes music, heads bob, feet tap, smiles spread, and hearts beat just a little faster. Truly, the musical sugar the band produces is indeed so fine. The alchemy of Alabama’s own Anthony Crawford and Savana Lee Crawford yields mystically sweet, organic harmonies which are both accessible and familiar, while at the same time intuitive and distinctly their own. Whether singing original works (like "Louisiana," "Butterfly," and "Sugar") or putting their down-home sound on familiar classics (ranging from an incredibly playful and fun Hot Rod Lincoln to a spontaneous rendition of Roger Miller’s "Dang Me" or a dreamily mellow and psychedelic "Midnight Rider"), Sugarcane Jane’s appeal cuts across generations and appeals to a wide audience. The strong talents of Jimmy Lee Hannaford on bass and Rusty Miller on percussion allow for even more flexibility and creativity in their shows. If it’s your first time to hear Sugarcane Jane, you’ll find yourself saying, “Wow, who are these guys? They’re good.” If you are familiar with their work, you’ll overhear such comments and smile knowingly as you remember the exact time and place you first stumbled onto the band.

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Jon Cowart is an amazing talent who can be seen playing guitar and singing in solo gigs or as part of the popular Cornbred band he formed.

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Big Muddy is a combination of blues, soul, southern rock and country music, featuring some of the best musicians in the southeast: Robbie Fleming, Harold Floyd, Larry T Wilson, Gene Burleson.

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Primarily a reggae band from Pensacola, Florida, Vibe Irie plays styles ranging from mellow roots and dub reggae to energetic, booty shakin' dancehall, calypso, Afro/Latin fusion, and reggae hip-hop. They perform originals as well as an eclectic arrangement of covers.

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