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“E
verybody goes through a rough
patch of road. For some folks the
potholes are a little deeper, and
anytime you can help folks out that’s just
always a good thing,” Marty Raybon, lead
singer of Grammy-award winning country
music group Shenandoah, is happy to lend
a “hand up” to Jacksonville State University.
Shenandoah is one of nine groups
performing at the Alabama and Friends
Benefit Concert at Burgess-Snow Field on
September 26.
“We’re going to rare back and give them the
ole ‘what for,’” Raybon says of the upcoming
concert. “When we go across the country I
tell folks ‘We’re about to put a little Alabama
stomp on y’all,’ ” he laughe d.
Raybon says he was “really excited” when
Randy Owen, lead singer of Alabama, asked
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Shenandoah to be part of the concert. “The
opportunity of being able to come in a
situation like this where folks are needing
some mending and some help and that kind
of stuff, it’s just always a good thing to be
able to be a part of,” Raybon says. “I think
music is very, very wonderful healing tool.”
“[Music] can literally take away something
that seemed to be so painful and bring it
back and allow folks to feel the joy and the
comfort,” Raybon continues.
Shenandoah will perform some of their
greatest hits at the upcoming benefit
concert. “We’re going to do “Two Dozen
Roses” and “Church on Cumberland Road”
because folks are familiar with that, and
therefore you give folks the opportunity to
hear some songs that they’re familiar with
and really just to come and be a part of
the festivities, and we’re excited about it,”
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