Lady Antebellum returns to Athens
It’s two short years after initially coming together to write some songs and two very short days after the release of the group’s debut album, and Nashville, Tenn.-based country trio Lady Antebellum (playing Monday at the Georgia Theatre) is rolling down a Los Angeles freeway toward a television studio to perform on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Over the past few months, the group, which consists of Hillary Scott and Augusta natives Charles Kelley (younger brother of singer-songwriter Josh Kelley) and Dave Haywood have gone from being talented, if largely unheralded, newcomers to a band garnering critical and popular praise as country music’s bright new light. Read the full story…