What do you get when four college kids in Alabama spend a pandemic winter stewing in a basement — and the name their band after the exact feeling of going nowhere fast? You get The Stews, the Auburn-born Southern rock force who went from SEC frat parties to Bonnaroo, the Bowery Ballroom, and a 2024 album called Chicken Fight that proves they're just getting started.

In this episode, Schecky traces how Preston Hall, Blake Dobbs, Bennett Baugus, and Wyatt Griffith built one of the fastest-rising live bands in the American South — recording their very first EP at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals where Aretha Franklin found her voice, dropping out of college because the shows wouldn't let them stay in school, and delivering the kind of live set where Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" bleeds seamlessly into an original in front o ...