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...Anticipation for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight...
...Anticipation for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight... I just re-watched Quentin Tarantino's read more...
James Franco's Film Adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy Book Child of God
James Franco’s Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God This morning I watched James read more...
Ace Atkins' Latest Book The Redeemers
The Redeemers By Ace Atkins I just finished The Redeemers, a fine book by Mississippi writer Ace read more...
"A Momentary Stay" : Musings on the Poetry of Harry Moore
A Trip Back in Time: A Review of Bob Keefe's "Stories From the Okefenokee"
In 1969 a young Marine returning to civilian life after a tour of duty as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam found refuge in a remote and read more...
The Magic of the Shoals: The Lindsey Film Fest Screening of "Muscle Shoals"
Not since the sold out
"A Heaping Helping: Songs for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of AL" by Scott Ward
This week I had the pleasure of chatting via Facebook with Alabama musician Scott Ward, producer and director at Lucky Dog Records. read more...
View the BBC's Southern Rock Documentary on Swampland
Swampland has added the BBC's new Southern Rock Documentary to it front page. Go here to view it -
Life Lessons in The Big Easy by Martha Gragido
There’s something maternal about a train. It carries you where you need to go and rocks you along, sheltering as new horizons read more...
Award Winning Author Joshilyn Jackson at Northeast Alabama Community College
Award-winning novelist Joshilyn Jackson will be the featured author for the Arts and Humanities Speaker’s Forum at Northeast read more...
Discourse Reviews
Review of The Coffee Shop Chronicles : Part 2
The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans, Part 2: The Last Beaucoeur by
King of the Road
(Houghton Mifflin Company)
Back To The Woods
(Evergreen Arts) Chuck read more...
The Grifter's Hymnal
(Bordello Records) The Grifter's Hymnal serves as the follow-up album to Ray Wylie Hubbard's 2010 release
Leaving Eden
(Nonesuch Records) Leaving Eden follows the Carolina Chocolate Drops Grammy-winning 2010 release
Where It Hits You
(Yep Roc) Jim White is an interesting character. Born in Pensacola, Florida, as Michael Davis Pratt during 1957, he read more...
The Songs of Woody Guthrie
(Rounder Records) The New Multitudes is a group composed of Jay Farrar, Anders Parker,
Facing The Music
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) Larry Brown's Facing The Music contains ten short stories. Published in 1988, read more...
A Hell of a Woman
(Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Jim Thompson's novel A Hell of a Woman contains no soft-hearted sentiments the read more...
The Rum Diary
The Rum Diary This review was written to coincide with the 7-year anniversary of
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Gimme Some Sugar, Darlin': The Quintessential Southern Cookbook
If you love to cook or just love to collect cookbooks, start making space on your bookshelf now because there's a new cookbook in town. This delightful compendium of all things culinary, Gimme Some Sugar, Darlin' by Mississippian Laurance Daltroff Triplette, is true piece of southern Americana, as much about the culture of the south as it is about the cuisine. A read more...
The James Ponsoldt Interview: From North Georgia Red Clay To the Hills of Hollywood
The James Ponsoldt Interview: From North Georgia Red Clay To the Hills of Hollywood By James Calemine Film maker James Ponsoldt was born in Athens, Georgia, in 1978. His father worked as a college professor and his mother was a writer. His read more...
Stranger In Paradise: The Works of Howard Finster
Stranger In Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster By James Calemine "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and read more...
New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music
New Horizons By James Calemine "I'm gonna sail like A ship on the ocean..." --The Georgia Sea island Singers Coastal Georgia exists as a treasure trove of America's earliest history. The Florida writer
The Shoals Area Heats Up for the 31st Annual W. C. Handy Music Festival
It's almost that time again when the hills of North Alabama are alive with the sound of music. The 31st annual W. C. Handy Music Festival, which runs July 20 through July 29, 2012, is a ten day annual celebration of over 300 events at locations throughout read more...
Luther Dickinson: A Thousand Footprints in the Sand
By James Calemine Luther Dickinson (The North read more...
Games People Play: Atlanta Songwriter Joe South
Games People Play: Atlanta Songwriter Joe South By James Calemine Joe South's songs remain timeless. To me, he always epitomized the story of a living legend that no one can seem to find. He's out there somewhere, but no one has heard from him in years. All we have is the songs. Mystery. Last week I was spinning
The Paintings of Georgia Artist Steve Penley
The Paintings of Georgia Artist Steve Penley By James Calemine Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1964, Steve Penley was raised in Macon, Georgia. By the time he attended the University of Georgia, he'd been painting and drawing for as long as he could remember. His paintings evoke vivid emotion that emanates from the subject. Penley resides read more...
Tennessee Williams: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Tennessee Williams: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton By James Calemine Born in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911, Thomas (Tennessee) Williams wrote plays, short stories, novels and poetry. Some of his characters rank as the most memorable in American literature. Few could write about heartbreak and madness like Williams. In 1980, President read more...
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