Chris Willman Music WriterLady Antebellum, one of the most successful groups in country music, announced Thursday that it is dropping the word “antebellum” from its name “after much personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest discussions with some of our closes friends and colleagues.”The trio will henceforth be known as Lady A, the nickname most fans and colleagues have used almost from the start.The trio says it is “regretful and embarrassed” not to have taken associations with the slavery era into account when choosing the name a decade and a half ago.Historically there had been little public pressure on the group to drop or adjust the name, but it had quietly come up as a topic of discussion and sometimes concern in.
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