Anybody hoping to have a fancy fried sandwich anytime soon is out of luck: Birmingham Weekly got word late Sunday night that the Burly Earl has closed its doors for good. The decades-old dive bar has been under new ownership for the last several months, but their efforts to reinvent the place unfortunately didn’t pan out. The new guys had put a lot of effort into booking live music: Saturday, July 26, would have brought the bar’s biggest show in a decade, with erstwhile Harlem sidewalk fixtures Satan and Adam playing their modern blues there.

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