{"product_id":"lee-bains-free-south-2025","title":"Lee Bains - Free South 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn August 2025, \u003cstrong\u003eLee Bains\u003c\/strong\u003e decamped to the Cherry Street Tavern in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a scene known for holding a light for collective good and personal freedom, in order to record a live album. Over that weekend, a group of anti-war activists, union workers, queer rights organizers, inclusive pastors, and people of goodwill—old-time folks—came from Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia to gather at the Cherry Street Tavern. That weekend, that small group of people on Cherry Street, just like innumerable other groups that day and throughout history, demonstrated to each other and to the microphones that, in 2025, the South was comprised of free people, no matter what. \u003cem\u003eFree South 2025\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eFree South 2026\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eFree South forever.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee Bains is a poet and songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama, who since 2012 has released four studio albums of what \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e calls “Southern gospel punk”, and will publish his debut poetry collection \u003cem\u003eWork Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e with \u003cstrong\u003eHub City Press\u003c\/strong\u003e in 2026 after several of the poems were first published by \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e in 2021. A cult songwriter forged in independent scenes, his work has carried him all over the U.S. and Europe, has received acclaim from the likes of \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, and has led him to be a supporting musician for other artists like \u003cstrong\u003eLonnie Holley\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMoor Mother\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eAlgiers\u003c\/strong\u003e. Lee has lent his work to support striking coal miners, immigrants’ rights groups, abortion funds, and anti-racism organizations. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Giovanni","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":58330037682521,"sku":"SDZ-47481","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/369_20260618_1010_091318_994_p_download_20260618091101_1_001.jpg?v=1781793545","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/lee-bains-free-south-2025","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}