Americana

  • 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: Aluminum — 62 Tracks, Nearly Two Hours of Appalachian Folk, Bluegrass & Dead Air The second full-length installment of the Buzzard Dust Mixtape series has arrived. Following Buzzard Dust: Copper, the project continues with Buzzard Dust: Aluminum — a bigger, stranger, and considerably longer entry in the series, running 62 tracks across one… Read more

  • Discover the enchanting world of Buzzard Dust: White County Moon, a radio station that brings the spirit of Arkansas to life. Featuring timeless folk tunes and fictional stories, this album is a must-listen for fans of Americana and nostalgia. Read more

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 📰 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 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 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 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