Shenandoah remakes ‘Sunday in The South’ with Aldean, Bryan

In 2024, country music legends Shenandoah celebrated 40 years of making music.

The band still performs today, including at the Saddle Up for St. Jude event each year.

Shenandoah formed in 1984 in Muscle Shoals, and since then the group has put out nine studio albums — two of which were certified gold — won a Grammy and had five Billboard No. 1 hits.

One of those No. 1 tracks was “Sunday in The South” released in 1989. The video for the song shows the band performing at a lunch on the lawn of the Colbert County Courthouse.

Interspersed are scenes of other icons found in Tuscumbia, like Main Street and Howard Chappell Stadium.

Earlier this year. Shenandoah remade the 35-year-old song with help from popular country singers Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan.

They released an accompanying video on Dec. 4, which showed the groups sitting together in a restaurant and enjoying a cup of coffee while singing the lyrics.

While the musicians reminisce on those old Southern Sundays, images of local landmarks in Tuscumbia and the surrounding area are shown.

These include Coldwater Books and the nearby clock, the intersection of Main Street, Deshler’s football stadium, St. John’s Episcopal Church, the Colbert County Courthouse and Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals.

Within 48 hours, the new music video had over 8 million views across all platforms and was No. 1 on iTunes all genre list.

“This all comes as a stunning and pleasant surprise,” said Shenandoah lead vocalist Marty Raybon on social media. “We couldn’t have done this without Jason and Luke, and we are eternally grateful for their willingness and friendship.”

The song invokes memories of spending Sundays after church eating with family members and reminisces about the “good old days.”

Comments on the 2024 video include “As a 59 yr old can we please get back to THIS America. I miss what America used to be 🇺🇸,” “This song describes a very real setting. Only those of us born here in the south can truly appreciate its accuracy,” and “City folks laugh at us, but they’ll never know how sweet this life is.”

“We had a blast recreating the ‘Sunday in The South’ video featuring some old familiar places,” Bryan said on social media.