Athens Music Snob Alert. . .

Here's the song. It's called "Cool"

LINK.....

Gotta pay the bills...

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the God Fathers of Athens GA pretentious music snobbery are now selling their music to be put in luxury car commercials?

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They're not selling out, they're buying in.

Few things are more overrated than Athens music.

B52's were very good and original. REM has very good to dawg awful.

WSP is just awful.

I can remember Pylon and Dash Rip Rock played a Frat Party when my Older Brother was Attending UGA

Also The Producers were pretty good back in their day.What she does to Me,great song weird thing the name Diana was in that tune and I was dating a girl named Diana when she was at UGA....... Good Memories

Loved The Producers! I hate it that any time I look for stuff from them, I have to wade through songs from the musical of the same name.

Usey likes Poco, that should tell you something

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REM has very good to dawg awful.

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The 2000's werent great for them but it wasn't awful.

Athens music scene was and still is among the top in the nation. It was better in the late 70s and all through the 80s but is still a great scene.

Normaltown Flyers
Love Tractor
Pylon
Jack Logan & Liquer Cabinet
Sea Level
Vic Chestnut
Randall Bramblett
Davis Causey
REM
B-52s
Drive By Truckers
Elf Power
Of Montreal
WSP
Bloodkin
Dashboard Saviors

There are only a few groups above who ever achieved national or international acclaim but all others were at one time or another we're part of the foundation of Athens music scene. Not to mention John Keanes contribution as a producer.

I lived the music scene for years in Athens in the 90s. I knew most of ,or at least met all of the above who were still based in Athens from 90-97. Jammed a few times with Davis who is one of the most talented session players for hire. He has toured with Steve Winwood and Clapton as a guitarist and done studio work for decades with Chuck Leavell and Allman Brothers. Randall Bramblett is equally accomplished. You know who almost every one of these guys consider the most brilliant songwriter ever to be in that scene?

Jack Logan. A damn mechanic from Winder. Rolling Stone did a piece on him in the early 90s based on a tip from a producer. He was an interesting story because he had over 600 songs recorded in his garage on 8 track. The RS team went to check him out and listened to the tapes and interviewed him. They left in awe and compared him to Bob Dylan. The greatest thing that almost nobody outside of Athens music new about. Soon thereafter, his 2 disc anthology was released with over 40 songs. It is called "Bulk" and would highly recommend to an ITunes playlist. Jack and his band Liquer Cabinet soon went on the old Conan O'Brien show as music guest. He had every musicians dream developing in front of his eyes except for the fact.....it wasn't his dream. He loved working on and restoring old cars before anything else. He purposely put the brakes on the ascent and faded back into obscurity only to play to a packed house once a year at a quaint Athens bar.