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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...
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...
Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan--Twenty Years After His Tragic Death
(Aug 28th, 12:59)
Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, called read more...
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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: Diann Blakely
Cities of Flesh and The Dead
(Elixir Press) “And to celebrate loss in that city of flesh and the dead…” Born in Birmingham, read more...
>>Lore 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...
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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...