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See pensacola like the locals.

Become a local by touring downtown Pensacola, only a short drive from Gulf Shores, while leisurely riding along the historic streets. Your experienced local tour guide will lead you through the sites and sounds of Historic Pensacola and a view of breathtaking Pensacola Bay. You will visit many historical sites and neighborhoods, learn fascinating facts about the city of five flags. Tours are conducted daily and range from 1 to 3 hours. Learning Pensacola’s history will help you feel more like a local as we locals are proud of our past. Pensacola is the most fascinating city on the Emerald Coast. And locals, it’s always a great time to brush up on your history as well.

What to Expect on a Segway® Tour for Gulf Shores

Each tour includes a brief training session, which will allow you to learn the ins and outs of Segway gliding. These technologically advanced, eco-friendly machines are very intuitive and self-balancing. Learning to glide on a Segway usually takes only a few minutes! Once trained, your group will head out on the town to experience the sights and sounds of our beautiful city along Pensacola Bay! We are proud to offer Segway tours for Gulf Shores .

Important Information About Segway® Tours:

Reservations are required for Segway tours and glides. Please book ahead to ensure that you are able to schedule the dates/times you desire. A credit card is required for reservations. There is a 72 hour cancellation policy. If you do not cancel your tour within 72 hours Emerald Coast Tours reserves the right to charge your credit card for full price of the tour. Comfortable, athletic shoes are best for Segway riding. Please do not wear Shape Ups or other shoes with a heel.

We take groups of 5 at a time. Single gliders will be paired with another person or group. However, if you have a larger group of 5, with a week notice, we could accommodate more riders. Please call (850)417-9292 to make arrangements. Segway gliders must be between 100-260 pounds. Age range is limited to age 14 and older. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to gear up for your tour!

Custom designed tours available. Call (850) 417-9292 to plan your Pensacola adventure!

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Visiting the Gulf Shores area? View one of the most beautiful areas of the Gulf Coast, Pensacola. We offer Segway Tours for the Gulf Shores area. Click to view all of our tours and to book your Segway Tour online.

The Dolphins & Wildlife Kayak Experience PUBLIC TOUR PRICE: Adults: $69.50, Children (U18): $60 OPERATES: Daily year round at Sunset and day times (vary season to season) TOUR LENGTH: 3 hours. Advanced Reservations Required. BOOK YOUR DOLPHIN & WILDLIFE KAYAK EXPERIENCE NOW! Just minutes from bustling…

The Champion Cypress Kayak Adventure TOUR PRICE: Adults: $99, Child (U18): $85. OPERATES: Daily year round (times vary season to season). A minimum of 4 guests is required for departure. TOUR LENGTH: 4-5 hours. Advanced Reservations Required. BOOK YOUR TOUR NOW!   Probably our coolest…

Canoe & Kayak Rentals WildNative Tours offers a variety of self powered boats for rent. On the Gulf Coast you can paddle with Dolphin’s, Manatee’s, Alligators and a myriad of birds and reptiles, all within an hour of Mobile, Alabama. See some of the…

Delta Wildlife Kayak Tour PUBLIC TOUR PRICE: Adults: $59, Child (U18): $51. OPERATES: Daily year round. Times vary by season. TOUR LENGTH: 3 hours. Advanced Reservations Required. BOOK YOUR TOUR NOW!   At the city limits of America’s wettest city, you’ll find the vast wetlands…

Bottle Creek Indian Mound Interpretive Kayak Tour TOUR PRICE: Adults: $129, Child (U18): $99. OPERATES: Daily year round at 9am. A minimum of 4 guests is required for departure. TOUR LENGTH: 6-8 hours. Advanced Reservations Required. See our Private Group Tour page for boat charter options. BOOK YOUR TOUR…

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Adults: $69.50 , Children (U18): $60 , Tour Length: 3hrs The Dolphins & Wildlife Kayak Experience – A Alabama Beaches Signature Experience , immerses you in a coastal wilderness and one of the prettiest classrooms on earth. Throughout the experience, we will watch for and learn about Gulf Shores’ Bottlenose Dolphins in their natural environment from the intimate, unobtrusive, and non-threatening vantage point of a kayak… Read More & Book .

Tours departing from The Battleship Causeway, Alabama (5-10 mins from downtown Mobile).

Adults: $59 , Children (U18): $51 , Tour Length: 3hrs As America’s wettest city, the grass swamps of the lower Mobile-Tensaw Delta that form the eastern border of Mobile, Alabama, provide the perfect backdrop for amazing sunsets and energetic wildlife… Read More & Book .

Minimum 4 guests for departure. Adults: $99 , Children (U18): $85 , Tour Length: 4-5hrs Available: Year Round but best season is from September through April. Departs: Rice Creek Landing – 8610 Rice Creek Road, Stockton, Alabama 36579 (30 mins North up 65 from downtown Mobile) – See Google Map HERE . Enjoy the thrill of exploring ancient cypress swamps in search of one HUGE Cypress – Alabama’s very own Champion Cypress… Read More & Book .

Adults:  $129 , Children (U18):  $99 , Tour Length: 6-8hrs Available: Year Round but best season is from September through April. Departs: Rice Creek Landing – 8610 Rice Creek Road, Stockton, Alabama 36579 (30 mins North up 65 from downtown Mobile) – See Google Map HERE . This is a different sort of adventure! The kind where we paddle into the middle of nowhere, then trek through the swamp and backwards in time to the Mississippian Tribes of the 13th Century… Read More & Book .

Awesome kayaking

We had a great time kayaking. Beautiful scenery, perfect weather, and educational!

We had a great time on the kayak tour. Chris and Chloe were very knowledgeable and kept us informed and laughing the whole time. Seeing the dolphins was awesome!

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We had an AMAZING time with Chris as our tour guide. He was very informative about the wildlife and area around us! I had never kayaked before but my husband had a bit but we both had a great time and no problems keeping up! We also saw some dolphins, which was really neat. Overall we had a fantastic experience and will definitely do again

Dolphin and Wildlife Kayak Tour

My husband and I plus another couple had such a great time kayaking at sunset. Our guide, Chris was terrific. He made the trip informative and fun. We saw many species of birds but the highlight was the dolphins. I highly recommend – great time. 🛶

Incredible Kayaking with Cassie

The Dolphins & Wildlife Kayak Experience was amazing! Our guide, Cassie, was the absolute best! My husband and I, our two teenage daughters, and my mother did this tour. Cassie offered to take a tandem kayak with my mom, so none of us would have to kayak alone. She took time to teach us kayaking basics, since we were all rookies, and was a great instructor! Cassie was very knowledgeable and taught us so much about the coastal Alabama wildlife. She was very easy to work with and has a great sense of humor. She made sure we got breaks when needed and took some great group photos for us. This tour was well worth it. We all learned so much. We would eagerly sign up for another tour with Cassie as our guide.

Very knowledgeable and funny

Chris was a wonderful guide. Very knowledgeable and funny. I would highly recommend a tour with WildNative!

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Where The Waters Flow  in southern Alabama we’ve more things to do than you can poke a kayak paddle at! Prepare to be amazed, inspired and relaxed with friends and family, as you experience America’s Next Eco Hot Spot!

WildNative offers multiple locations with both coastal and delta access. As Coastal Alabama’s leading tour operator and only delta specialist. We encourage you to come and enjoy our world, whether for a few hours, a few days or a few weeks! We think you’ll like our Bayou’s, Bays and Beaches as much as we do.

* We believe in a Leave No Trace policy, in educating, and in preserving Alabama’s amazing natural wonders for future generations. *

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What kind of tours and where can I find information about tours in the Mobile, Alabama area?

The Mobile, Alabama area has vast selection of tours from bus, walking, boat, trolley or a hop on hop off tour for your group or family.  Either on land or on the water checking out the history of Mobile where four flags have flown over the city or finding out about the ecosystem on the delta, find what you need here.

Here you will find a detailed listing of all the tours, locations and details and how you can get involved in finding out about the history and the surrounding water ecosystem of the 

Airboat Express

Tour the Mobile delta with an exhilarating ride on an airboat.  These boats will seat up to six persons and depart from the Original Oyster House restaurant on the Causeway in the Spanish Fort area.

Tour guides will take you on an excursion to see the wildlife in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta area.  These flat bottom, air powered boats allow the guides to take you where normal boats can’t go.

Reservations and a four person minimum is required for each tour.  This company has an excellent safety record and fully insured.

Airboat Express offers four touring options:

• One Hour Eco Tour – tour guide will show off the local plants, trees, flowers, birds and yes, the alligators.  A highly educational tour for anyone interested in learning about the native, natural wildlife of the Mobile Delta and photographers.
• Half Hour Fun Run – This tour is all out!  An ½ hour of fast turns and wild rides. You’ll still get a peek at the alligators, but fast enough not to get caught by them.
• One Hour Sunset Tour  – Perfect for photographer’s.  Just like the One Hour Eco Tour, but at sunset at 7pm during the summer months.  This however requires a minimum of 6 passengers.
• Half Hour Night Tour – Also called the “Alligator Adventure” because this is the time you’ll be guaranteed to see some big ones!  Alligators feed at night, so open water is the best place to see them. You’ll see their eyes light up at night. However, this tour is extremely seasonal and is dependent on the weather, temperature and wind conditions.  So, call in first to see if it’s available.

Tours are held between 10am and 4pm in the Spring and Fall months.  Summer times are 8am to 11am (it’s hot here). Sunset and Night tours vary, so call for details.  Night tours start 30 minutes before sunset.

Pricing is as follows:

Taxes are not included and children pricing is based on 12 years old or younger.  Cancellation requires a 48 hour time frame. All cancellations after 48 hours will be charged full price.

They are closed from November 15th to February 1st each year.  It is recommended that you make your reservations 24 hours in advance.  Groups smaller than the recommended per each tour above will be combined with other groups when available.

An online shop is available to purchase T-shirts and gift souvenirs and gift cards are available online.

Contact Airboat Express at 251-370-7089 or visit the website for additional details .

Tour Categories :

Guided, Tour, Boat, Interactive (no you don’t swim with the alligators, but you can take pictures).

Wild Native Tours

Here is another service with multiple tour options that also shows off the Tensaw Delta region around Mobile Alabama.

Wild Native Tours offers launch points at three different areas.  Two near Mobile and one in the Gulf Shores area.

• The Delta Wildlife Kayak Tour launches in Spanish Fort, AL at the 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center at Bartram Landing.  This is about 10 minutes from downtown Mobile and 
• The Secretly Awesome Tour departs from Cooper Riverside Park which is just minutes away from the hotels in the Mobile downtown area. 
• The Dolphins & Wildlife Kayak Experience departs from Happy Harbor Oyster Bay at 4159 County Road 6 in Gulf Shores, AL 36542

The Delta Wildlife Kayak Tour

Launches about 10 minutes from downtown Mobile Alabama and provides amazing scenic views of wildlife and beautiful sunsets.  

Pricing: Cost is $49 dollars for adults and $41 dollars for children under 18.

Time: It lasts about 2 hours and is a yearly.  Times can change due to the season you visit.

The Secretly Awesome Tour

This is a boat tour on a fully enclosed, handicap accessible vessel with restrooms on board.  You can bring along a meal and drinks including your camera and binoculars for viewing the wildlife and historic scenes.

You will see the Port of Mobile, which is the 10th busiest port in the US and the 4th largest estuary which is Mobile Bay.

Pricing:   Cost is $28 dollars for adults with Seniors, military and children under 18 for $22 dollars.

Time: This tour lasts about 2 hours and required advance reservations.  It is open year around except for major holidays like Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Special Notes: Contact 251-272-4088 or [email protected] for private group charters or book online.  Cancellations must happen 3 days in advance with no cancellation fee.  See the full cancellation and disclaimer policy below. Tipping is not required, but accepted if you so choose to give.

The Dolphins & Wildlife Kayak Experience

This tour includes a kayak rental, life jacket, paddle, bottled water, a guide and gear transport.  Make sure you have comfortable clothing and can keep your camera and/or binoculars secure. Sunscreen, hat and sunglasses wouldn’t hurt either.

NOTE: Be sure to bring that signed waiver too.

While you are not guaranteed to see them, the bottlenose dolphin is the star of this show.  You will learn about the feeding habits, their history and the intelligence they have.

Pricing:   Cost is $65 dollars for adults children under 18 for $52 dollars.

Time: This tour lasts about 3 hours and required advance reservations.  Time frame varies from season to season. Suggest calling to confirm.

Wild Native Tours also holds:

• Seasonal Tours
• Private Group Tours
• Educational Group Tours
• And Birthday Experience

Group or Individual Memberships Available

You can buy an individual plan and get unlimited “Delta Wildlife Boat Eco Tour” for one year, Special Member Only Tours, 10% off any tour, charter, rental, birthday package or merchandise.  They start at $49 per year for adults and $39 for children under 21, seniors and military personnel.

Corporate packages range from Employee of the Month program, Silver Corporate and Gold Corporate Memberships.

Purchase memberships here and see additional details and restrictions.

Their Cancellation Policy and Disclaimers – 

For reservations cancelled 3 or more calendar days in advance, there will be no cancellation fee.

Cancellations 2 calendar days in advance will be charged a 50% cancellation fee.

Cancellations within 1 calendar day of event will be charged a 100% cancellation fee.

If tour is cancelled by tour operator due to poor weather, you will be given the option of an alternative date or refund. Guests will be notified in the event of a weather related cancellation. Due to rapidly changing weather along the Gulf Coast, most weather related cancellations will not be made until day of event.

All tours depart at scheduled departure time. Boats and tours will not be held due to late arrivals. No reschedules or refunds will be issued for late arrivals.

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Tour Categories: Guided, Tour, Boat, Kayak, Walking, Interactive (no you don’t swim with the alligators, but you can take pictures).

Dora Franklin Finley African-Amercian Heritage Trail

Experience the rich history of Mobile’s past and how the African-American community contributed to enriching the community and history of this great city.

This organization has four different tour options to choose from:

• Step On Bus Tours where your group charters a bus and their tour guide joins you, narrating the trip with a map for your driver.
• Self-Guided Tours can be taken on your own.  The official website has detailed maps and audio clips of the different history locations where you can complete a self-guided tour.  NOTE: The website is not mobile optimized, but you can zoom in and click on the different history locations and then click the audio file to hear detailed information about each site.
• School Bus Tours work like the Step On Bus Tours, but are for 4th grade classes in the Mobile County area.
• Downtown Walking Tours meet in Cathedral Square in downtown Mobile.  Contact the office for detailed information on these tours or to schedule one.  The walking tours cost $20 per person or $10 of Senior citizens and students.

A downloadable brochure guide and map is available online.

Connection Details:

Eric Finley at 251-725-2236 or email him for reservations or additional details.

Tour Categories: Bus, Walking, Guide, Tour, School, Self-Guided

Bay City Tours

This company has several tour packages, but they can create a personalized tour for you, your family or business.

Here are the basic tour packages found at Bay City Tours

Historic Mobile Alabama Tour

This is a four day tour designed for your group on your bus.  Your group will arrive and check in at your hotel where your personal guide will meet your group on your touring bus. This tour will take in the historic garden districts of Mobile Alabama and a city managed museum.  Refreshments will be served at one of the antebellum homes on the route. Your group will then enjoy dinner at one of Mobile’s fantastic restaurants and then returning to your hotel. This tour is 7 hours long and ranges from about 1pm to 10pm at night.

Day 2 is a 12 tour from about 9am to 9pm where you enjoy breakfast at your hotel before departing.  On this day, you will tour several private homes that are open ot the public and then lunch at one of the area’s restaurants.  You’ll then take a self-guided walk thru the famous Bellingrath Gardens and Home. Then back to your hotel to have dinner at another outstanding Mobile restaurant.

Day 3 involves putting on your walking shoes and taking in breakfast on one of the most awarded USS WWII battleships – The USS Alabama.  You will see the Captain’s Quarters, galley, radio room and sick bay. 5 rarely seen private historic homes will be opened up for your tour group and then back to your hotel for a Madi Gras style dinner with masks and beads.

Day 4   will have a custom tour design especially for you and your group to fit within the time frame you have before embarking on your trip back home.

Or, plan one of the other tour options for your group:

• Festival Of Flowers Tour – 3 Day tour during the last weekend of March featuring Bellingrath Gardens, Eastern Shore and Historic Homes of Mobile AL.
• Wonders Of The Water Tour – 3 Day tour featuring a boat tour of Mobile Bay and Bayou La Batre and Dauphin Island, AL.
• Antebellum South Tour – 3 Day tour featuring a tour of the USS Alabama, Bellingrath Gardens and then over to the Eastern Shore.
• Mardi Gras Tour – 5 Day tour between the first of February and the end of February featuring the coronation of the Queen of Mardi Gras, Bellingrath Gardens and then over to the Eastern Shore.
• Happy Holiday Tour – 4 Day touring event featuring old Mobile Historic Homes, USS Alabama, and a trip over to the Eastern Shore.

You can also take in personal, family or small group 1 Day tours for:

Historic Mobile – One Hour Tour

• Monday through Saturday 10:30am and 2pm
• $16 per person with two person minimum
• Departure from City of Mobile’s Welcome Center at 111 South Royal Street
• Reservations are required

USS Alabama Memorial Park – Three Hour Tour

• $25 per person with two person minimum

Mobile’s Own Ghost Stories Tour – One Hour Tour

• Monday through Friday – Depends on the season – When it gets dark
• Available on weekends with advanced reservations
• $20 per person with six person minimum

Contact Bay City Convention & Tours to plan your customized tour or fill out the online contact form .

Bay City Convention & Tours

PO Box 304, Mobile, AL 36601

Phone: 251.479.9970

Toll-Free: 1.800.338.5597

Fax: 251.479.9918

Tour Categories: Bus (your motorcoach), Walking, Guide, Tour

Personal Guided Tours

If you want to tour Mobile on one-on-one basis and skip the bus or big crowd scene, then get a tour by a local tour guide to see all the sites up close and personal.

Here are two personal guides that will show you the history and grandeur that is Mobile Alabama.

Shanon performs personal guided tours in the Mobile Alabama area and has experience as a Concierge for some of the more prominent hotels in the Atlanta area like Embassy Suites and Sheraton.

A wonderful insiders look at old Mobile and an intro to Mardi Gras. Our time with Sharon was like spending time with someone we’ve known all our lives. I am sure we saw places you won’t get on any other tour. Next time we go to Mobile we will be sure to have Sharon show us more. We debated on doing a self guided tour on a trolley. Glad we chose to do the tour with Sharon instead. A fantastic lady. Thank you Sharon.  Donna Krise

Sharon’s Tour Options

Private Concierge Architectural Tour

Sharon will take you on a guided tour in her vehicle to visit the six historic districts of Mobile where you will see homes that survived for about 250 years.

Departure starts at either the airport, your hotel, cruise ship terminal or an address of your choosing in the Mobile area.  You’ll end up back where you started.

This tour is $175.00 for up to 4 individuals and lasts about 2-½ hours.  Sparkling and still water including snacks are provided. Bring about $20 each if you want to stop for lunch and English is the only language available on these tours.

You will need to provide funds for personal expenditures and any souvenirs you may want to purchase.

Private Bellingrath Gardens & Home Including Dauphin Island and Bayou La Batre

Your private guide will whisk you off to the awarding winning Bellingrath Gardens & Home then through the hometown of Forrest Gump and Bubba Blue.  You’ll also tour through the barrier island of Dauphin Island and stop in for a late lunch at one of the fabulous hometown restaurants.

This tour pricing is $325 for 3 individuals and lasts about 6 hours.  Sparkling and still water are included with snacks. Lunch is provided either at one of Dauphin Island’s great restaurants or at the Lighthouse in Irvington, AL.  Admission to all areas are included.

Special Note : The tour vehicle is not wheelchair accessible.  You will need to enter and exit the vehicle on your own. Wheelchairs are available at Bellingrath Gardens & Home.

Private Concierge Tour

This will be an in depth historical tour of downtown Mobile Alabama.

You will see where banana boats use to drop off their cargo over to where the original Mardi Gras floats throw out the beads and moon pies.

From Bienville Square to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

This tour pricing is $200 for up to 8 individuals and lasts about 3 hours.  Sparkling and still water are included with snacks. Lunch is provided either at one of Dauphin Island’s great restaurants or at the Lighthouse in Irvington, AL.  Admission to all areas are included.

You will need to provide funds for personal expenditures and any souvenirs you may want to purchase plus any snacks or food you might want along the way.

Historic Trolley Tours Of Downtown Mobile Alabama

A 90 minute tour of historic Mobile Alabama in a climate controlled trolley.

This tour departs from 111 South Royal Street in Mobile and cost $15 per person with kids under 12 free.  If you have a group of 15 or more, call the office for a discounted rate at 251-633-0560.

A second pickup location is available on Tuesday and Thursday at 11:05am and 1:05pm from the USS Alabama Memorial Park.

Note: Please check out the website of call the main office to make sure trolley tours are scheduled for the day and time you desire.  Weather, road and traffic conditions can hamper the tour schedules.

Book online here .

The general trolley schedule is as follows:

What locations does this trolley tour visit.

Stops on this riding along trolley tour include the Fort at Colonial Mobile, Church Street Cemetery, Callaghan’s Irish Social Club, the Oakleigh Historic Home area, Carnival Museum, GulfQuest National Maritime Museum, National African American Archives and Museum, USS Alabama Memorial Park, Bienville Square and more!

Spot Of Tea’s Segway Tours & Rentals Self Guided Tour

Want to go it alone?  Try out the segway’s tour from the Spot Of Tea on Dauphin Street.

This tour features about 25 different historical sites around the downtown Mobile Alabama area from the resting place of Joe Cain, one of the founders of Mobile that played a key role in the starting of Mardi Gras.

Visit 310 Dauphin Street, call 251-433-9009 or visit their website for additional details.

Tour times at 7am to 2pm Monday through Friday and 7am to 3pm on Saturday and Sunday.

No matter what type of tour you decide on, Mobile Alabama has a history, attractions and restaurants that will satisfy every interest you can have.

This melting pot of French, British, Spanish and American culture has an interest all unique on its on.

Tim has traveled the Gulf Coast from Texas to the tip of Florida for the last ten years. As the grandson of restaurant entrepreneurs, Tim writes about unique restaurants, things to do and attractions all along the Gulf Coast and Southeast. Just like his grandparents small drive-in restaurant, he loves small town, mom-n-pop establishments as well as interesting and unique places.

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• 111 South Royal Street, Mobile, AL 36602
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Experience the history and vitality of one of America's oldest cities on our award winning, fully narrated tour in one of our climate controlled trolleys. Tours begin at the Visit Mobile Welcome Center or at the USS Alabama. Ages 15 & under are free. Group rates available for 10 or more. Please visit https://www.mobiletrolleytours.com/ for current schedule.

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Pick up the rhythm of the place where Mardi Gras began and you will know why we are Born to Celebrate! Our 90-minute fully narrated tour takes you down moss covered streets in front of buildings with stories to tell and along one of the most diverse eco-systems in the country. Here, a rich past meets a modern thriving culture with something to offer everyone. Museums, historic homes and buildings, parks, fountains, music, food, drink, and entertainment all abound along our route. It's all So Mobile!

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Legendary heavy-metal singer loves Dolly Parton, cats, ‘invincible fan base’

• Updated: May. 03, 2024, 9:13 p.m. |
• Published: May. 03, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

Richie Faulkner, left, and Rob Halford of the band Judas Priest perform onstage in 2022. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP) Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP

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“There’s your kitty cat,” Rob Halford says with a smile from behind the circular sunglasses he’s wearing in his Chicago hotel room. About halfway through our video call interview, Max, a green-eyed feline, saunters in front of my laptop’s camera. “You know me, I love cats,” says Halford, who often posts cat-centric images to his Instagram account .

Halford is probably the greatest heavy-metal singer to ever live. If he isn’t, he’s second only to the late great Ronnie James Dio of Black Sabbath, Rainbow and the band Dio fame.

Halford’s octave-scaling range and hellcat tone are archetypal not just to the sound of Judas Priest, his Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame band, but all heavy-metal. Just as integral to the genre as crunchy guitar and headbanging grooves. See Priest classics like “Living After Midnight,” “Breaking the Law,” “Exciter,” “Painkiller” and “Victim of Changes.”

More than 50 years into their history, Judas Priest continues to set the pace in metal. Released this March. “Invisible Shield,” the band’s 19th studio album and a worldwide chart hit, cooks. Songs like “The Serpent and the King, “Trial By Fire,” and “Devil in Disguise” deliver vintage Priest sound in present tense. In addition to Halford and classic-era members Glenn Tipton on guitar and Ian Hill on bass, “Invisible Shield” boasts star guitarist Richie Faulkner and longtime drummer Scott Travis.

As lauded as he is as a singer, Halford’s vocal melodies are underappreciated. Take “Crown of Horns,” a standout track off “Invisible Shield.” Also see Priest all-timers like “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” and “Electric Eye.”

“It’s one of the thrills of songwriting, is trying to come up with melodies,” Halford says. “Much like Glenn and Richie with the riffs. It’s the same kind of endeavor, really. You’re trying to establish something that really captures the essence of what the song is all about, the message that the song is going to try and portray.

“And that’s always good to have it in your mind, you know, to appreciate that you’ve got you’ve got all of this material, it’s preceding this moment. And you’ve got to kind of push through and find something fresh and original in its melodic gestures and phrasing and everything that’s never been done before. And I’ve always had a feeling that your previous work kind of subconsciously plays a little bit of a role in this place that you have to go to.”

To come up with vocal melodies, Halford usually listens at the recording workstation in his Phoenix home to a song’s basic instrumental tracks before they’ve been completely finished. And listens again. And again.

“Sometimes, the melodies come really quickly,” Halford says. “In fact, with ‘Crown of Horns,’ it was almost instantaneous. Where did these things come from? I guess it’s just the blessings that musicians have. It’s not easy writing music. Never has been and it shouldn’t be, especially something that’s good and you hope is gonna last.”

Halford will set down with a track with some ideas already jotted down. He keeps a running list of song titles and opening lines. Creating a vocal track, he’s looking for something that “connects.”

Many singers like to cut with few other people around besides a producer and recording engineer, but Halford likes to have bandmates there, too.

“I like to have support when I’m doing my work – always have,” Halford says. “It’s very important to be open minded in the studio, to listen to people’s suggestions and ideas. Whether it’s ‘Crown of Horns,’ whether it’s ‘Electric Eye,’ whether it’s “Another Thing Coming,’ these things are what you go down the heavy-metal coal mine for, picking away. ‘Oh, there’s a diamond.’”

Before exploding into a blistering charge, “Invisible Shield” opening track “Panic Attack” opens with a neon-toned intro reminiscent of “Turbo,” Priest’s polarizing 1986 album known for its sleek contours and poppy hooks.

Faulkner put the “Panic Attack” intro together in a Nashville studio and sent it to Halford. “And he goes, ‘Is this is this risky?’ Halford recalls. “I go, ‘Why?’ He goes, “Well, it’s a little bit synth-y. It’s a little bit of a reference. I was thinking of Glenn when you made the ‘Turbo’ album, and that machine that he had specially made for him and these cool sounds that were happening.’

“And I go, ‘No man, I think it’s really cool.’ I think it’s very evocative of something that we’ve done from the past, but it’s like a redesign. It’s like a restructure. It’s also an attention-grabber. We knew pretty much right from the early moments of the album that this was going to be the opening track. You’re also aware that fans around the world are just waiting. What are they going to do? What’s the first thing that I’m going to hear? So we were having a little bit of fun with that opening sequence, but at the same time, it felt absolutely relevant. You know how a [baseball] pitcher winds up before he throws the ball? It’s a little bit like that.”

“Panic Attack” has racked up more than 7 million Spotify streams so far. It’s also the opener on the setlist for Judas Priest’s current tour. The trek includes the band’s first show in Huntsville, Alabama (my hometown), in 40 years , back when they were supporting their “Defenders of the Faith” album.

Halford will turn 73 in August. But during our video call, no doubt thanks to the formerly hard-living singer’s decades-long sobriety, he looks closer to 53. There are tattoos on each side of his shaved head. Wizard beard. He’s wearing rings, bracelets and necklaces and a plain tee. Metal God casual. As anyone whose been to a recent Priest show will attest, Halford’s still singing his ass off, too.

Asked what he’s learned as a singer over the past four decades, Halford says, “It took me a while to realize, you know how everybody has a happy place? Somebody has a walk in the park as a happy place, some vacation is a happy place. My happy place is singing. It completes me as a person. And I don’t think I’ve ever realized that until some years ago when I started to appreciate how important this voice is to me as a person. How it makes me live completely.”

Halford believes his sole purpose in life is singing. It’s his destiny.

“So I’ve appreciated as I’ve gotten older this gift is just a treasure,” he says. “I enjoy the emotion, energy, power, connection -- particularly live with our fans. Because there are certain parts of the show where I sing certain songs, where you can see everybody lights up, you know? And that’s the power that the voice has.

“And that’s the same for a lot of singers, when you have a favorite song, and you hear it sung by the person that actually made it on the record. So there’s all this kind of emotional connectivity that is more important to me now than it was as a younger metalhead, as a younger person. And I think that’s life. You gain wisdom in life, at least you should. So I’ve just learned to feel great about this, this fact that I’m able to do what I do all these decades later with this band that I love more than anything else in the world, and have a fan base that is just invincible. It’s absolutely glorious, you know?”

Andy Snead, producer on “Invisible Shield” and co-producer along with frequent Priest collaborator Tom Allom of the band’s previous album “Firepower” from 2018, also serves as touring guitarist. Tipton, who along with former guitarist K.K. Downing forged Priest’s patented and highly influential dual lead guitar attack, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease a few years back, impacting his ability to tour. I can tell you though, when Tipton joined the band onstage at their 2022 concert in Nashville for the last three songs, his shredding could still rattle a coliseum and thrill fans.

While Halford takes his singing and music very seriously, he doesn’t take himself too seriously. Offstage, he often sports T-shirts emblazoned with images of cats, a contrast to his signature onstage looks of studded leather.

Judas Priest’s the quintessential metal band, but they’ve looked outside the genre when they’ve recorded cover songs. For 1974 debut album “Rocka Rolla,” Priest reimaged folk singer Joan Baez’s song “Diamonds and Rust” as Queen-style hard-rock. On ‘78 LP “Killing Machine” (titled “Hell Bent for Leather” in the U.K.), Judas Priest put their imprimatur on “The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown),” a song from Fleetwood Mac’s bluesy, Peter Green-led and pre-Stevie-Nicks-and-Lindsey-Buckingham era. Hot versions of both songs featured in Priest’s ‘79 live release “Unleased in the East.” “The Green Manalishi” is in the band’s current setlist.

“You’ll find that most musicians are very open minded in the way that they absorb music,” Halford says. “Music is a very, very, very powerful force. And yeah, we all have all favorites. We prefer this kind of music to that kind of music. Or we will we’re completely turned off by this kind of music, we’re drawn to another.

“Back to when I was a little kid, you know, there was always music in my family. The radio was always on, or the television was always on. My mom and dad used to like variety shows with a lot of music, different talent. And wow, what a great time to grow up in England. By the time the swinging ‘60s came around, and we had everything from The Beatles to The Rolling Stones to Cilla Black to Gerry and The Pacemakers to The Tremolos. I could go on and on and on. All these great stars with great voices. It taught me at a very earl age to be receptive, to absorb music in every way, shape and form.”

Cut to the 2022 Rock Hall induction ceremony. There’s Halford onstage with country legend Dolly Parton singing her classic hit “Jolene” together.

“And I love that song and I love Dolly,” Halford says. “It’s just part of this magical journey. I love my Hank Williams, I love my Willie Nelson, I love my greatest classical singer of all time, [Luciano] Pavarotti. Singers I’m particularly drawn to. Just because I know all singers feel the same when they sing. It’s a very deep kind of almost spiritual thing when you’re singing, because it comes from your heart, your soul. So I’m attracted to all kinds of music and all kinds of singers.”

Halford and Judas Priest have etched their own monolithic legacy. His talent has also intertwined their arc to intersect with his heroes.

Early in the band’s career, Priest got to open for Led Zeppelin at a stadium concert. Extra thrill for Halford since Zep’s Robert Plant is one of his key inspirations on the mic. Decades later, he filled in with Black Sabbath , another personal touchstone as Sabbath and Priest both hail from Birmingham, England: Once for Dio in 2004, and once for original Sabs frontman Ozzy Osbourne in ‘92.

When those gigs come up as we’re closing our 15-minute chat, Halford smiles fondly and bows toward the video camera in a Chicago hotel.

Judas Priest performs May 7 at Huntsville’s Von Braun Center and May 12 at Mobile’s Mobile Civic Center Arena. For Huntsville, tickets range from $49.50 to $99.50 plus applicable fees via ticketmaster.com and the VBC Box Office, address 700 Monroe Street. Mobile tickets are $45 and up plus fees via asmglobalmobile.com. More info at judaspriestinvincibleshield.com.

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