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In the music world, it’s easy to get caught up in big, bright, flashy measures of success: Chart records, celebrity, sold-out arena shows. The Red Clay Strays served up a reminder this past week that you may find the real gold in smaller moments.
I’m not knocking the triumphs. In the last week, an Alabama country star who most of us hadn’t heard of two years ago set an all-time record for the nation’s most popular song. Another Alabama country star made an energetic debut as a coach on a major reality show – which, let us not forget, was won last season by an Alabama artist. And an Alabama rock band booked a three-night stand opening a brand-new arena in its hometown…