Birmingham’s music history has never looked quite like this.

This month, Sealegs Press releases A History of Birmingham Rock & Roll, a hardback art book featuring every piece from Craig Legg’s legendary 350-painting exhibition—a project that stunned the city when it debuted at East Village Arts in 2023.

The original show was the kind of once-in-a-generation cultural moment.

Preserving Birmingham’s sound

Legg, a fixture of Birmingham’s arts, music, poetry, and bohemian cultural scenes, spent a year researching and painting the city’s rock & roll story.

A self-published poet, self-taught artist, and amateur historian, he lives and works in Birmingham’s East Lake community–and his work blends wit, grit, and archival curiosity as he charts the people, places, and moments that shaped the c

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