08 Jul
Mama’s Big Day
Mama Louise’s Special Day and Night
by Bill Thames, Ormond Beach Florida
Mama Louise Hudson
A pessimist might say, a good deed never goes unpunished, but last weekend, in a room full of smiling optimists, Gregg Allman told the crowd that, ”one shared plate of smothered fried chicken at the H & H Restaurant quickly became several plates,” and those plates fed the emerging soul of Southern Rock, and helped keep it alive while the world caught-on to their musical concept. What started as dinner “ on the house” for a group of scruffy, hungry, long-haired hippie types, almost forty years ago, morphed into one of the most loving evenings in Macon Georgia’s history & Mama Louise Hudson’s landmark birthday party
After dinner the evening’s festivities kicked-off with an almost never ending parade, to the stage, of Macon music royalty, political dignitaries, and colorful local characters; all of whom were there to honor Mama Louise for a lifetime of kindheartedness, benevolence, and good will.
