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August 15, 2017

Historic Atlanta building could be replaced with Buffett's Margaritaville

  • The brick building was the spot where the first country hit was recorded in 1923 by Fiddlin' John Carson.
    • By DON SCHANCHE Jr.
    Associated Press

    ATLANTA — At the edge of downtown Atlanta's historic core, a nondescript brick building holds a little-known 94-year-old tie to music history — it's the spot where a song that many deem the first country hit was recorded.

    But that physical vestige of Fiddlin' John Carson may be in jeopardy because a developer wants to raze it and build a restaurant linked to a more modern Southern musician: Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville.


     
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