Eric Church, Maren Morris, Drive-By Trucks, the War and Treaty and more will perform in honor of Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday in Atlanta.
a multi-act concert, which brings together country, pop, and hip-hop artists to honor the former president, who turns 100 on Oct. 1., and keyboardist Chuck Leavell, who was a member of the Allmans when that band raised money for Carter’s campaigns in the Seventies. “Back when Jimmy Carter was running for president, the Allman Brothers played concerts for his campaign because we believed in his vision for hope and change for America,” Leavell said in a statement.
The range of artists, rooted in different styles of American music, reflects Carter’s own sensibility and diverse tastes, as the late Robbie Robertson told. When Dylan and the Band were touring together in 1974, Carter, then governor of Georgia, invited them to the governor’s mansion in Atlanta; to Robertson’s surprise, Carter complimented him on the Band’s albums.
“Coming from Canada, one of the things that I noticed in the Mississippi Delta, where this music grew out of the ground, is that when we played down south, there would be people of every age group,” Robertson said. “There’d be old people. There’d be young people. And everybody dancing. This was unheard of up north. But Jimmy Carter was a typical Southern guy who grew up loving music and he was as true as he could be as part of that world.
Proceeds from the event will go toward the Carter Center, the non-profit, pro-human-rights organization founded in 1982 by Carter and his wife Rosalynn,45 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Cameos and Easter Eggs From the X-Men, MCU and BeyondRobert Downey Jr. Back as Doctor Doom for Two 'Avengers' Movies3 hours ago
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