#JSUSTRONG
& FRIENDS
By Kelsey Butler
T
wenty-five years ago, Randy Owen
sang these words, “I believe there
are Angels Among Us, sent down to
us from somewhere up above. They come
to you and me in our darkest hours. To
show us how to live. To teach us how to
give. To guide us with a light of love.” Owen, Alabama frontman and JSU trustee,
organized the upcoming Alabama and
Friends Benefit Concert as an effort to raise
funds to aid the university in rebuilding. The
concert, September 26, at Burgess-Snow
Field will feature some of the greatest names
in country music to hail from our great state.
The chorus to “Angels Among Us” by
Alabama says that in our darkest hours,
angels “show us how to live” and “teach us
how to give”. Many would say that Owen
is now one of those angels stepping up
to help his alma mater, Jacksonville State
University, as the campus and community of
Jacksonville recovers from the EF-3 tornado
that tore through Jacksonville on March 19. The Charlie Daniels Band, Jason Isbell and
the 400 Unit, Jamey Johnson, Shenandoah,
John Berry, Gordon Mote, Darren Knight
(“Southern Momma”), and Sirius XM’s Storme
Warren make up the lineup.
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“We are so thankful and blessed that friends
of ours, and some from our great state of
Alabama, have offered to help raise funds
to repair the damage from the horrific
September 2018
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