Some of the areas's best musicians to be on Letterman this week

Oct 2

A passel of local creatives, including David Hood of Muscle Shoals Sound Studios performing this week on Letterman.

We cross paths with David and Judy Hood, usually every couple of weeks during one of our weekly lunch visits to the Rice Box Restaurant. They are (or David is?) heading to NY to be on Letterman - Thursday or Friday. Really cool to see the world (and Letterman) - even if after all these years - appreciating our wonderful community as much as we do.

Looks like an entourage of some of our many musical genius' might be performing - probably one of the hits from the new soundtrack to the just released movie - Muscle Shoals. --What a fun time it is now for these guys and all of us in the area.

Interesting to see how the seeds that these guys planted back in the 60's and 70's seem to be sprouting everywhere we look; the movie, the music, the soundtrack, the city, the university.

Robin Wade

Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.

robinwadefurniture.com

Some of the areas's best musicians to be on Letterman this week

Still on the huge Museum Bench project

Woodwork - Jessie - and Breaking Bad