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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...
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...
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>>Mystery and Manners 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...
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>>Mystery and Manners 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...
>>Mystery and Manners Features
Notes On State Of Poetry: Part Four
NOTES ON THE STATE OF POETRY: Part Four by Diann Blakely "Boom" by Lisa Eveleigh, Biloxi, MS Detour: After weeks--no, months- of sitting shiva in front of CNN as BP threatens to wreak greater ruinage on the South, especially read more...
Widespread Panic's Michael Houser: Eight Years Gone
Michael Houser: The Quiet Genius: Eight Years Gone By James Calemine Eight years ago Widespread Panic’s founding guitarist died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 40. It doesn’t seem like eight years since he’s been gone…
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>>Mystery and Manners 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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>>Mystery and Manners Poetry
POISON LEAVES
Poison Leaves By James Calemine I The Fatback Soul Jubilee ... The Old Country Church A slow procession wanders through a garden of stone towards rotting steps of an old country church. The soul revue spawns a wayward read more...
POISON LEAVES (PART TWO)
Poison Leaves Part Two By James Calemine ... Hanging of An Innocent Man Sharp silver needles enclose a vacuum of lies Binding words weave endless ties. Tenfold lotus where a vision manifests Unspoken innocence transgression may suggest. Thrashing a guilty man read more...