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The "Song and Soul of the South," Macon has been home base to musicians like the Allman Brothers Band, Otis Redding, Little Richard, and Young Jeezy. Less than two hours from Atlanta, here you can walk the trails of a Native American burial site before lunching on fried-green tomato BLTs and Jimmy Carter milkshakes in the historic downtown.