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Georgia, Historic Macon Music Registry Historical Markers
The Historic Macon Music Registry is an ongoing documentation project that interprets and celebrates Macon's rich and diverse music heritage. The Music Registry aligns with ongoing efforts of groups like the Friends of Macon Music, Rock Candy Tours, the Otis Redding Foundation, the Allman Brothers Big House Museum, Field Note Stenographers, the 5/4 Music Space, and countless others to preserve Macon's music history and revive the city's music scene. Plaques are placed at influential sites that represent the diversity of music's role in shaping the character of soul of Macon. [copied from the Registry website]
By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 20, 2021
Andersen's Jewelers Marker
1 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Andersen's Jewelers — Historic Macon Music Registry —  |
| Raymond Hamrick, “The Patriarch of Sacred Harp Music," worked here. — — Map (db m186708) HM | |||
| 2 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Buffalo Evans' Home — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Evans officiated weddings of Gregg Allman, Jaimoe, Chuck Leavell and Lamar Williams here. — — Map (db m186620) HM | |||
| 3 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Capricorn Park — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Phil Walden funded this private park. The columns came from the original Wesleyan College. — — Map (db m186811) HM | |||
| 4 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Capricorn Studio — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Recording Studio of Capricorn Records, Creator of Southern Rock — — Map (db m186781) HM | |||
| 5 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — City Auditorium — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Little Richard, Otis Redding, and the Allman Brothers Band performed here. — — Map (db m186810) HM | |||
| 6 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Dick Wooley's Home — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Wooley, founder of Rabbit Records, launched Molly Hatchet, Grinderswitch and others. — — Map (db m186660) HM | |||
| 7 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Dickey Betts' Apt B — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Dickey Betts lived here with his wife Sandy “Blue Sky” and daughter Jessica. — — Map (db m186628) HM | |||
| 8 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Douglass Theatre — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Macon's Premiere Historic Black Performance Venue — — Map (db m186754) HM | |||
| 9 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Duane Allman's Home — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Duane, Donna and Galadielle lived upstairs. — — Map (db m186635) HM | |||
| 10 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Elizabeth Reed Music Hall — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Location of "world premiere" concert of Gov't Mule — — Map (db m186727) HM | |||
| 11 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Emmett Miller Home — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Vaudeville artist who put the yodel in country music, inspiring Hank Williams & Merle Haggard — — Map (db m186687) HM | |||
| 12 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Grant's Lounge — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Live Music Stage of Southern Rock — — Map (db m186783) HM | |||
| 13 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — H&H Restaurant — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Mama Louise Hudson and Inez Hill fed rock stars within these walls. — — Map (db m186826) HM | |||
| 14 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Hippie Crash Pad — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Twiggs Lyndon's digs where the Allman Brothers Band and roadies lived — — Map (db m186633) HM | |||
| 15 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Hustlers, Inc. — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Home to Alan Walden's company that managed Lynyrd Skynyrd — — Map (db m186775) HM | |||
| 16 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Mike Mills and Bill Berry — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Lived in apartments here before helping form R.E.M. — — Map (db m186842) HM | |||
| 17 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Muscadine Studios — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Studio of Paul Hornsby, producer of Charlie Daniels & Marshall Tucker Bands — — Map (db m186846) HM | |||
| 18 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Nashville South — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Club where Jason Aldean and Razzy Bailey were discovered — — Map (db m186691) HM | |||
| 19 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Paragon Booking Agency — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Booking agency for R.E.M., the Police, the B-52s and other New Wave bands — — Map (db m186845) HM | |||
| 20 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Percy Welch's Hotel — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Many early R&B artists stayed here, including Little Richard. — — Map (db m186818) HM | |||
| 21 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Philip Walden, Jr., Childhood Home — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Re-launched Capricorn Records with Widespread Panic — — Map (db m186838) HM | |||
| 22 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Professional Building — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| James Brown recorded “Please, Please, Please” at WIBB radio station — — Map (db m186693) HM | |||
| 23 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Rookery — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| The birthplace of Bragg Jam — — Map (db m186721) HM | |||
| 24 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Sidney Lanier's Law Office — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Famed flautist and poet Sidney Lanier worked here. — — Map (db m186711) HM | |||
| 25 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — The Big House — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Home to the Allman Brothers Band, families, roadies & friends 1970-1973 — — Map (db m186626) HM | |||
| 26 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — The Cottage — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Buddy Greene, famed for "Mary, Did You Know," played with the Uncle Ernie Brand here. — — Map (db m186831) HM | |||
| 27 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Tic Toc — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Little Richard often performed at Ann's Tic Toc. — — Map (db m186756) HM | |||
| 28 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Wet Willie House — Historic Macon Music Registry — |
| Owned by Bunky Odom- the band lived, wrote and rehearsed here. — — Map (db m186676) HM | |||