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Emmitt Owens

Folk Music

  • 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 RETURNS TO THE AIRWAVES WITH “WHITE COUNTY MOON”

    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Rapper

    The Buzzard Times From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Wrapper Florence, Ala. — There was a time when he packed heat. Mixtapes. Albums. Hard rhymes. Loaded pistols. Hard attitude. He wasn’t arranging anything. He was moving units. He spoke like a man who believed nobody could touch him,… Read more

  • Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: I’m Building an Empire I Keep Telling You Isn’t Real

    Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: I’m Building an Empire I Keep Telling You Isn’t Real The independent music circuit is full of self-proclaimed “moguls” buying plastic trophies and inflating their stream counts to project an illusion of global stardom. I’ve decided to do the opposite. I’m building a sprawling musical empire out here in… Read more