Jacksonville in the early 1970s was a breeding ground for southern rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet.
Six Jacksonville boys who came to be called “the architects of southern rock” (a label the bluesmen found too limiting) moved to Macon, Georgia, in 1969, making that city a recording industry landmark.
The Allman Brothers Band hung out there in a Tudor revival that they called “The Big House,” sought inspiration at Rose Hill Cemetery, subsisted on Mama Louise’s H&H Soul Food, and performed in a soybean field across from Middle Georgia Raceway…