Never Fade

[Cora Devries]

Memoriesnever fade is the perfect vacation spot for adults and kids alike! Located at the end of a culdesac, you will feel completely secluded while being in the heart of Hochatown. Kids will be fully entertained by the half basketball court, play ground with 4 swings, rock wall and slide, arcade games, and exploring nature and the creek on the property. Adults will love the large wrap around porch with plenty of places to relax like the porch bed swing and outdoor living area, complete with a fireplace and hot tub. Spend family time around the fire pit or playing horse shoes and corn hole.

The covered grill deck is equipped with a gas grill and pellet smoker allowing you to do everything from grilling burgers to smoking a brisket.

Inside the cabin, you will find an open concept living room, well stocked kitchen with a large island, and dining table for 8. This beautiful cabin has two primary suites and a bunk room with its own full bath. The bunk room has a queen over queen bunk and a twin over twin. Each bunk has its own private TV and wireless headphones. The two primary suites each have a king bed and an en-suite bathroom complete with soaker tub, large walk in shower, and double vanity. The kitchen has a coffee pot and a Keurig.

"Never Fade" is a song by the American rock band Alice in Chains and the third single from the band's sixth studio album, Rainier Fog, released on August 24, 2018.[1] The song was written by vocalists/guitarists Jerry Cantrell and William DuVall,[6] who also share lead vocals, with DuVall singing the verses and the pre-chorus, while Cantrell sings the chorus.[8] "Never Fade" is a tribute to DuVall's grandmother, Soundgarden lead vocalist Chris Cornell, and Alice in Chains' original lead singer Layne Staley.[9] The song was released as a single on August 10, 2018 via YouTube, streaming and digital download.[1] "Never Fade" peaked at No. 10 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.[10]

During an interview on Steve Jones' radio show, Jonesy's Jukebox, on August 10, 2018, vocalist and guitarist Jerry Cantrell said that he initially didn't think "Never Fade" was an Alice in Chains song. It was something they had laying around in the studio session. Cantrell had written the music and the chorus, but he didn't have a good verse and was intending to write it throughout the recording process of Rainier Fog, or maybe for something that he would do later, like a soundtrack.[8] Vocalist/guitarist William DuVall ended up writing the lyrics for the song at Studio X in Seattle in the summer of 2017. He wrote and recorded the track alone in the studio until 3am.[11] "Never Fade" is DuVall's major composition in Rainier Fog.[7]

The song features the lyrics "all my friends are leaving".[11] DuVall's grandmother, described by him as a pillar in his life, died at the age of 105 while the band was recording the album, and he wrote the lyrics to "Never Fade" thinking about his grandmother and the late Soundgarden lead vocalist Chris Cornell, who died a month before the band started recording the album, among others.[11] DuVall later told Kerrang! magazine that he was also thinking about Layne Staley while writing the lyrics.[9] Cantrell told Premier Guitar that the chorus he wrote is about something totally different than the verses written by DuVall.[12]

Never Fade was written by myself in the studio. Everyone else had gone home. I stayed there all night and just absorbed and thought about a lot of things. And I felt like being in that setting helped trigger a lot of these things that needed to come out, that I'd been hanging on to, for a lot of time in some cases. I'd just lost my grandmother; you know about Chris [Cornell]. There was so much happening, going back.[7]

The night-time session at the windowless studio in Seattle was contrasted with the home studio of producer Nick Raskulinecz in Nashville, where most of the vocals were completed.[7] "We decamped to this opposite, bucolic community, with nothing but farmland for miles around. You could see sunlight or rain through the windows, and felt among the elements", DuVall said of the recording at Raskulinecz's studio.[7]

On August 9, 2018, Alice in Chains announced on their social media pages that a new song would be released the next day.[13] The song was made available on Alice in Chains' official YouTube channel[14] and for streaming and digital download via Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Google Play and Deezer on August 10, 2018.[1]

Loudwire said that the song "has a slight garage rock feel with an immediate hook. There's a balance to the moods of "Never Fade" with a moderate nod toward the gloom of their classic days, but it washes away with an emphatic pre-chorus and soothing refrain as the band promises an unnamed person they are not forgotten and will never fade."[15] and listed it as the eighth best rock song of 2018.[16]

The song was performed live for the first time during Alice in Chains' concert at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, Canada on August 22, 2018,[20] and was frequently performed throughout the Rainier Fog tour.[21]

A music video directed by Adam Mason was released on Alice in Chains' official YouTube channel on November 1, 2018. It continues the storyline from the previous music video for the single "The One You Know", and features actors Paul Sloan, Viktoriya Dov, Eric Michael Cole, Mike Hatton, Jerry Raines Jr., and Darri Ingolfsson in clips from the upcoming sci-fi film Black Antenna, also directed by Mason. The music video also features the band performing in a studio colored by red and green lights.[22][23]

On June 27, 2019, a new version of the music video was released on YouTube as the ninth episode from the miniseries Black Antenna, also directed by Mason and starring the same actors. This version does not feature the band performing.[24]

In a previous lifetime I covered sports and wrote a column for the Herald-Journal. When I was asked to write about some of the more memorable accomplishments and people involved in sports over the past century, it was pretty obvious that there aren't a lot of us old geezers left who remember that simpler time in sports.

Actually, I can't claim to have played for coach Red Dobson at Spartanburg High or coach Phil Dickens in the glory days at Wofford or to have seen David Pearson or Cotton Owens or Bud Moore when they took their first steps toward becoming legends in automobile racing. That really was before my time. But rest assured, those of us who have been involved in, spectated, or just known about sports during the past 40 or so years in Spartanburg and South Carolina have been fortunate enough to have lived a sports fan's dreams. In the past year, the Herald-Journal has presented interesting, major stories on the 1938-39 Spartanburg American Legion baseball team and the 1949 Wofford football team. The "49ers" under coach Phil Dickens was a great story of a mixture of young men who graduated from high school and were joined by some returning veterans from World War II. Those men have contributed in many ways, including as leaders in the Spartanburg community. But there are many other proud moments involving famous and not-so-famous personalities and events that occurred in the state during the past 40 or so years. It was a simpler time. Wofford, Presbyterian and Newberry were fierce rivals in football. Erskine joined that group in basketball to form the Little Four, and the gyms were packed when the schools played each other. The coaches were great friends, but also fierce rivals who were not above a little gamesmanship. I still remember the night at Presbyterian College when Wofford's Gene Alexander, the tall graying, sometimes volatile coach, was upset with an official's call and the basketball unfortunately came bounding toward him about the same time. It was a perfect kick, bouncing off the rafters of the field house. It was a favorite moment involving a great man and great coach. Wofford's football program, which played Texas A&I for the national NAIA championship in 1969, had one of the best small college coaching staffs in the country in the mid 1960s. Conley Snidow was an innovator of the wing-T formation. Jim Brakefield, who followed Snidow as head coach, Alexander, Bob Muirhead and Fisher DeBerry, now coach at the Air Force Academy, made up the staff. They were hard-nosed, fundamental-minded men who turned out a large number of solid citizens who have contributed to success in the Upstate and beyond. In another sport, Earl Buice, who directed the food service program at Wofford but was even more interested in his job as golf team coach, persuaded the NAIA to play its national golf championship at Village Greens Country Club in Inman. The Terriers, with a lot of homegrown talent, won that national championship as players finished at the same time darkness enveloped the course at about 9 p.m.

Holtz's first impression Those were days when Frank Howard was the football coach at Clemson and South Carolina was changing coaches fairly often. Marvin Bass had resigned at Carolina in the middle of spring practice. He had brought in two or three new young assistant coaches just prior to the start of practice. And on the day that Paul Dietzel, the designated savior of Carolina's football program, was announced as the new head coach, he announced during the press conference that he was bringing his own coaching staff, but he would retain the current coaching staff through the upcoming school year. A scrawny little fellow standing in the back of the room leaped up, throwing an arm into the air and yelling, "All right." That was Lou Holtz, a two-week veteran of the Gamecock staff who had just closed on the purchase of a new house in Columbia. He could laugh about it later, but it wasn't real funny at the time.

Minor league baseball Spartanburg was the home of one of minor-league baseball's most successful baseball teams in 1966 when Pat Williams, an exuberant young graduate of Wake Forest and a disciple of Bill Veeck, was brought in by team owner R.E. Littlejohn to run the Spartanburg Phillies. Pat came up with every promotion you could think of, filled the stands at Duncan Park every night, and was aided by the fact that manager Bob Wellman had an outstanding team on the field. It was an exciting time as the Spartanburg Phillies -- with shortstop Larry Bowa, second baseman Denny Doyle and pitchers John Parker and John Penn -- battled the Greenville Mets, who had a couple of outstanding pitchers named Nolan Ryan and Jerry Koosman among others, for the Western Carolinas League championship. Pat was always bringing in a celebrity and giving away prizes to the fans. Bob Feller, Satchel Paige, Paul Hornung and Max Patkin are among those who come to mind. Of course, Pat is now head of the Orlando Magic and other athletic interests of the DeVoe family. John Gordon, who made the games sound exciting on the radio, is still doing the Minnesota Twins broadcasts, and Warner Fusselle, who followed Gordon here, for years worked with the late Mel Allen doing This Week in Baseball television shows.

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