ATLANTA (AP) β Granville Automatic, a band with roots in Atlanta, is releasing its collection of songs inspired by Civil War battles, part of a related project to film videos of the songs on battlefields across the nation.
The album released this weekend, “An Army Without Music,” includes songs about soldiers, horses and ghosts in several southern states.
The band has filmed videos of the songs in the places that inspired them, and has plans to shoot more videos in Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia.
Many of the songs were inspired years ago, when band members Elizabeth Elkins and Vanessa Olivarez lived in metro Atlanta. Elkins recalls driving down Atlanta’s Moreland Avenue, across battlefields now covered by streets and stores, and hoping the stories of the Civil War were not lost to history.
