Barnabas Sky – Over The Horizon 2025 22 August

Jackson Highway was named by Muscle Shoals producer Jimmy Johnson after the legendary address of the Muscle Shoals Sound Recording Studio in Sheffield, Alabama….3614 Jackson Highway.

With that name the band certainly became a part of a special musical family. The founding members of the band, brothers, Dennis and Russell Gulley, along with friend, Tommy Patterson, migrated from Fort Payne, Alabama to the Shoals after several years of working on the road with both regional and national acts, such as Cross from Birmingham and Ruby Winters (Polydor Records recording artist). The Gulley brothers came out of a background of Southern Gospel music, while Patterson was a music student in college. All were searching for a future in music as artists and /or songwriters. Shortly after getting to Muscle Shoals Sound, the trio was joined by guitarist Britt Meacham, and drummer, Ronnie Vance, a native of Florence, Alabama. Britt was a native of Memphis, but had settled in Mobile, Alabama with his new wife, Cheryl. Britt had previously worked with Bell Records recording act, Storm, a rock trio produced by Barry Beckett at MSS (Muscle Shoals Sound). Mike O’rear, the publishing administrator for MSS, was put in charge of demoing the new arrivals for the publishing company and became instrumental in supporting the band members by getting them a house band gig across the Ala.Tenn. state line at a club called Johnny’s Club. The band worked there from 1973 till about 1977, when they released their first LP on the Muscle Shoals Sound label, simply titled , “Jackson Highway”. With the release of their first recording, Jackson Highway began a hard journey that kept them constantly touring throughout the South , colleges, clubs, concert dates, where ever anyone would listen to them

Tracks :

01 Pieces Of Good Earth
02 Pick-Up Truck
03 Circles
04 Honky Music
05 Hook , Line And Sinker
06 Wayne County , Tennessee
07 You Got Me Dancin’
08 Mississippi Funk
09 Every Day Will Be A Holliday
10 Stick It Back In THe Mud

turbo thx buks!