‘A Rock And Roll Alternative’: Atlanta Rhythm Section Hit The Mainstream

‘A Rock And Roll Alternative’: Atlanta Rhythm Section Hit The Mainstream

Here’s a story about perseverance, featuring a band who slowly but surely built an audience through much of the 1970s, and got their rewards. The Atlanta Rhythm Section, from the town of Doraville in Georgia that they immortalized in their first US Top 40 single, were formed in 1971. After a series of albums that either didn’t chart or were at best modest sellers, on January 15, 1977 they entered the Billboard 200 with what became their first go…