Souls with a soft spot for smooth rhythm and blues can spot a gentle nod to musician Leon Bridges in his stomping grounds of Fort Worth, Texas. The city, recognizing Bridges’ profound influence on the local culture and the ears of many, has stamped approval – quite literally atop street signs – in the area where his soulful career sparked to life. The Fort Worth City Council, in a meeting earlier this week, gave the green light for sign-toppers to be placed in the neighborhood that saw the genesis of his debut album, “Coming Home”, recorded at nostalgically named Niles City Sound, showing the respect it has for its native son.
Bridges, although born in Atlanta on July 13, 1989, is Fort Worth’s own through and through, graduating from Fort Worth Crowley High School. He’s been nominated for a Grammy Award four times and won in 2019; significantly, these honors speak volumes of his influence, and the city felt it was time to honor the crooner in kind. The sign-toppers, markers of a city’s pride, will take their perch at the intersections of South Calhoun Street with East Vickery Boulevard, East Daggett Avenue, and East Broadway Avenue, according to a report by the City of Fort Worth…