Druid City Music Festival

The Mobile based band “The Red Clay Strays” took a top honor during last night’s Country Music Awards. The country rock band won vocal group of the year, which broke a seven year streak by Old Dominion in that category. Billboard Magazine listed the win for the Strays as a “surprise” during last night’s CMA’s .

Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. Among his compositions was one that mused about Alabama getting the atomic bomb, during its days of segregation.

Winter’s nearly over, and that means summer music festival lineups are starting to circle the internet.In Alabama, that means country fans will be…