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  • Northwest Alabama’s Independent Musicians Are Making a Scene of Their Own

    Northwest Alabama’s Independent Musicians Are Making a Scene of Their Own Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Russellville, and the surrounding Tennessee Valley — September 2026 When people outside Northwest Alabama hear the words “Muscle Shoals,” they usually think about the past — legendary recording studios, session musicians, soul records, Southern rock, and the long list of… Read more

  • Northwest Alabama Music News: The Music Is Still Being Made

    Northwest Alabama Music News: The Music Is Still Being Made September 2026 — Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and the surrounding Tennessee Valley If you live in Northwest Alabama, you don’t have to look far to find music. It might be coming from a stage in downtown Florence, a bar in Muscle Shoals, a community… Read more

  • Buzzard Dust: Copper Bonus: Cupcake Island and Coconut Girls

    Get ready for a delightful surprise with Buzzard Dust: Copper Bonus, featuring Cupcake Island and Coconut Girls! This unique collection takes listeners on a tropical detour from the ongoing Copper era rollout, blending music, radio ads, and comedy bits into a short pirate broadcast. Read more

  • Now hEAr This: Buzzard Dust Mixtapes | Buzzard News

    Now hEar This Buzzard News’ monthly spotlight on the sounds you need to know. Now hEAr This is Buzzard News’ answer to the traditional music-discovery column: a monthly look at independent artists, unusual sounds and music worth hearing. Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Sounds like: Appalachian folk, bluegrass, old-time mountain music, gospel, country, Americana, and Southern storytelling… Read more

  • Derrick Mobley’s “Alabama” Receives a Vintage Cartoon Treatment Ahead of Buzzard Dust: Aluminum

    The Buzzard Times Derrick Mobley’s “Alabama” Receives a Vintage Cartoon Treatment Ahead of Buzzard Dust: Aluminum By EmmittOwens.com Staff | August 21, 2026 NORTHWEST ALABAMA — Derrick Mobley’s “Alabama” has a new visual treatment today, with the release of a vintage-inspired cartoon music video accompanying the song from the upcoming Buzzard Dust: Aluminum album. The… Read more

  • BREAKING: THE BUZZARD DUST EXPERIMENT APPEARS TO BE WORKING

    📰 BUZZARD NEWS BREAKING: THE BUZZARD DUST EXPERIMENT APPEARS TO BE WORKING By: emmittowens.com Staff – August 17, 2026 There comes a point in every experiment where you stop, look at the equipment, and say: “Well hell… I think this thing is actually working.” That’s where we’re at with Buzzard Dust. When this started, there… Read more

  • WALK — When You’ve Been Lost, Broken, and Still Choose to Go Home

    WALK A song about faith, regret, love, and finding your way home. There are songs you listen to. And then there are songs that find a piece of you that you’ve been carrying quietly for years. “Walk” is one of those songs. Performed by Byron Pelson and written by Emmitt Owens, this song isn’t trying… Read more

  • Backwoods Shit: A Song From Somewhere Down in the Hollow

    Backwoods Shit: A Song From Somewhere Down in the Hollow Some roads ain’t on no map. Some songs probably shouldn’t be on the radio. “Backwoods Shit” is the latest transmission from the fictional world of Buzzard Dust: Aluminum, supposedly recorded somewhere deep in the hills around Lost Creek, Alabama (Near Crooked Oak, Alabama), by a… Read more

  • Transmitter from the Shitter

    Transmitter from the ShitterA tale outta Churntown, Alabama I. The Man, The Myth, The Outhouse   Now Rusty Eaton had wrote him four hundred and twelve songs, and he knowed it exact, on account of he numbered every last one in Sharpie marker on the inside of the outhouse door, right up next to his cousin… Read more

  • The Long Habit of Making Things: A Profile of Emmitt Owens

    The Long Habit of Making Things: A Profile of Emmitt Owens In 1999, Emmitt Owens was recording songs on a five-dollar microphone connected to a Windows 98 computer, using FruityLoops to build tracks in whatever room of the house happened to be free. He released the material under a home operation he called Plizaya Productions,… Read more