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Twenty-eight year old Adam Hood hails from East-central Alabama, but you’d be out-of-luck trying to pigeonhole his style geographically. First picking up a guitar at age ten, by fourteen he was playing live in church bands. By sixteen, Hood had dropped off the football team and into the local scene playing weekend gigs at local restaurants.
“I could either make money playing music, or sit on the bench,” he says. After a stint at Auburn University, Hood entered the job world and tried to back away from music. “I gave it up for three months in ‘97 when I moved to Montgomery (Alabama) and I went crazy. It’s been getting better ever since I moved back to Auburn a year ago and got some focus.”
Indeed it has gotten better. Culling inspiration for his songs from John Hiatt, Ian Moore, Martin Sexton, Patty Griffin and Steve Earle, Hood has crafted his own style which has built him a following and regularly scheduled shows (twenty-five/month) from Nashville to Atlanta to Birmingham and everywhere in between.
In June of 2001, Hood released a rough demo of his songs for out-of-town bars and other musicians. The demo circulated rapidly among Auburn students creating a demand for a full-length release that would allow Hood to quit his job as a land surveyor and still pay the bills. 21 to Enter was self-released in December 2002, recorded live in Columbus and Atlanta, Georgia. “It all boiled down to time and budget. The truth is, there’s something about the singer-songwriter live performance that is just American. People are drawn to the honesty of it.”
“I could either make money playing music, or sit on the bench,” he says. After a stint at Auburn University, Hood entered the job world and tried to back away from music. “I gave it up for three months in ‘97 when I moved to Montgomery (Alabama) and I went crazy. It’s been getting better ever since I moved back to Auburn a year ago and got some focus.”
Indeed it has gotten better. Culling inspiration for his songs from John Hiatt, Ian Moore, Martin Sexton, Patty Griffin and Steve Earle, Hood has crafted his own style which has built him a following and regularly scheduled shows (twenty-five/month) from Nashville to Atlanta to Birmingham and everywhere in between.
In June of 2001, Hood released a rough demo of his songs for out-of-town bars and other musicians. The demo circulated rapidly among Auburn students creating a demand for a full-length release that would allow Hood to quit his job as a land surveyor and still pay the bills. 21 to Enter was self-released in December 2002, recorded live in Columbus and Atlanta, Georgia. “It all boiled down to time and budget. The truth is, there’s something about the singer-songwriter live performance that is just American. People are drawn to the honesty of it.”
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