>>DiscourseDispatches
Southern Music Folk Festival Dedicated To Jim Dickinson
(Today, 14:19)
Southern Music Folk Festival Dedicated To Jim Dickinson Throughout the years, Jim Dickinson cultivated a relationship with read more...
Jim Jarmusch Conjures Tom Waits, Neil Young & The North Mississippi Allstars In Interview
(Yesterday, 12:47)
Jim Jarmusch Conjures Tom Waits, Neil Young & North Mississippi Allstars Jim Jarmusch serves as the guest curator on read more...
CNN Spotlights The Georgia Theatre
(Aug 31st, 17:37)
CNN Spotlights The Georgia Theatre Today CNN ran a story regarding The Georgia Theatre. Our friend Wilmot Greene talked about read more...
The Squidbillies' Georgia Connection
(Aug 30th, 23:08)
Wicked Laughs On The Squidbillies Squidbillies is an animated television series on Cartoon Network. It’s about read more...
Hunter S. Thompson's Wife Keeps The Faith On Owl Farm Blog
(Aug 29th, 17:50)
The Fifth Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Anita Thompson, the wife of late writer Hunter S. Thompson, still lives at their read more...
>>Discourse Book Excerpts
Dixie Lullaby
An excerpt from DIXIE LULLABY: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South By Mark Kemp University of Georgia Press
See You In A Hundred Years
An excerpt from SEE YOU IN A HUNDRED YEARS: Four Seasons In Forgotten America By Logan Ward Benbella Books ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
Picture of the Day
>>Discourse reviews
Review of: John Coltrane
The Definitive John Coltrane
(Concord Music) The Definitive John Coltrane on Prestige and Riverside Collection encapsulates Coltrane’s most read more...
Review of: Bobby Bare Jr.
A Storm--A Tree--My Mother's Head
(Thirty Tigers) Bobby Bare Jr. knows music. He grew up in the shadow of his father, lived next door to
Review of: Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses
Junky Star
(Lost Highway) Marc Ford exposed me to Ryan read more...
>>Discourse Fiction
The Bayou Sideshow
The Bayou Sideshow By James Calemine THE BAYOU SIDESHOW “I shouldna’ been foolin’ with a married man,” uttered our hero, Doreen, as she grinned a perfect smile, and passed me the pipe. “I’ll have to go back to the beginning for you to understand the disturbing circumstances I got myself read more...
Brother To Jackals
BROTHER TO JACKALS By James Calemine I have become a brother to jackals, a companion of owls. -Job 30:29 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well, is a righteous man who gives way to read more...
>>Discourse Features
When The Saints Went Marching Out: Artists Remember Katrina, 24 August 2010
by Diann Blakely “I do not know much about gods, but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-- T. S. Eliot, “The Dry Salvages” At first I thought it was the Dog Days: that period between July and September when it is not only horridly torrid, but Just Plain Weird Things Happen. Weeks of unutterable, obsessing coincidences have read more...
Young Man With A Horn: Ken Watters, Jazz Trumpeter Extraordinaire
"Ken Watters is one of the finest young trumpet players to come along in a very long while. His is a unique trumpet voice that utilizes the best of contemporary jazz motifs, shadings, and tone colors. He has a pure joy of expression in his read more...
>>Discourse Conversations
True To My Nature: Daniel Hutchens Talks About Songwriting with Widespread Panic
True To My Nature: Daniel Hutchens Talks About Songwriting with Widespread Panic By James Calemine Widespread Panic always promoted the music of Daniel Hutchens and Bloodkin. Over the years they’ve rendered nearly a dozen Bloodkin songs in the studio and live shows. Hutchens co-wrote a new song called “True To My read more...
The George Dawes Green Interview: A Storyteller's Storyteller...
The George Dawes Green Interview: A Storyteller's Storyteller... By James Calemine "Necessity is the mother of several other things besides invention." --Flannery O'Connor George Dawes Green knows storytelling. He’s an expert. Green wrote The Caveman’s Valentine (the film adaptation starred Samuel L. read more...
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>>Discourse Poetry
Why GP Cries
by Harry Moore Beneath the seething August heat bolls of cotton crack, then burst in fluffy locks, green leaves twist, turn brown and fall. Black faces glisten as workers bend to knee-high stalks, plucking the soft fiber from prickly burrs, packing handfuls into the canvas sack they drag till it’s strutted, then read more...
Three Poems by Jeanie Thompson and "To an Outdoor Wedding" by Kathleen Driskell
Three Poems fromThe Seasons Bear Us by Jeanie Thompson --published by RiverCity Publishing Company Ona Bank of the Tennessee Late August While the sun stained the still river blood-red as a tapped vein, I dragged the canoe onto shore, and with afternoon my read more...