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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...
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...
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 -
Rich Robinson & Amy LaVere Hit The Road Together In March
Rich Robinson & Amy LaVere Hit The Road Together In March In March,
Ry Cooder's Los Angeles Stories
Ry Cooder's Los Angeles Stories Ry Cooder made music with
No Chicago Blues For Jerry Lee Lewis
No Chicago Blues For Jerry Lee Lewis On Saturday,
Indie Memphis Film Fest Opens Thursday
Indie Memphis Film Festival Nov. 3-6 The four-day 14th annual Memphis Film Festival begins Thursday. The read more...
The Search for Blind Lemon: Words, Music, Photos & Films from Jim Dickinson's Memoirs
Jim Dickinson's Search for Blind Lemon On September 17,
Jamaican Blues & Southern Breezes: Blue Water, Black Soul & Rock N Roll
Jamaican Blues & Southern Breezes: Blue Water, Black Soul & Rock N Roll "I say when read more...
Booker T. Jones On The Road From Memphis
Booker T On the Road From Memphis Booker T. Jones just released an album called The Road From read more...
Memphis Reviews
I'll Play The Blues For You
(Stax Remasters) Albert King never tolerated nonsense. His guitar-playing captured the essence of his personality. He read more...
Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me
(Bloodshot Records) Recorded live at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina, Justin Townes Earle's read more...
Women & Work
(ATO Records) Lucero sends a musical love letter to Memphis on their latest release Women & Work. This read more...
Howlin' Wolf/Moanin' In The Moonlight
(MCA Records) The Chess Original Masters Two On One Howlin' Wolf collection--Howlin' Wolf/Moanin' In The read more...
This Wheel's On Fire
(William Morrow & Company) "It's a wicked life But what the hell, Everybody's got to read more...
Straight From The Heart
(Hi Records) Released in 1971, Straight From The Heart counted as Ann Peebles' third album. Produced by Hi Records read more...
Long Live All of Us
(Last Chance Records) Long Live All of Us counts as Glossary's 7th studio album. Glossary hails from Murfeesboro, read more...
True Soul: Deep Sounds From The Left of Stax
(Now-Again Records) The Arkansas label Now-Again Records release True Soul: Deeps Sounds From The Left of
The Road From Memphis
(Anti) The latest Booker T. Jones album--The Road From Memphis--follows his acclaimed release
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
(Concord Music Group) Stax Records president Al Bell read more...
Memphis ArticlesGimme 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...
Luther Dickinson: A Thousand Footprints in the Sand
By James Calemine Luther Dickinson (The North 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...
Levon Helm: Across The Great Divide
Levon Helm: Across The Great Divide To me, Levon Helm's voice captured the authentic roots of America's south. Born in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, Helm grew up on Sonny Boy Williamson, traveled with Ronnie Hawkins, recorded with
Swampland's Top 25 Albums of 2011
As March fades and the first quarter of 2012 comes to a close, Swampland has used this moment to look back on 2011 putting together our list of last year's best music releases from the South. Although we've named 25 records on our Top 25 Albums of 2011, each one serves as sort of a best in category as well. There were so many strong releases that we will attempt to read more...
Jimmy Hall: Still Smiling, With Plenty of Horsepower
Jimmy Hall Still Smiling, With Plenty of Horsepower By Jerry Grillo Jimmy Hall might write a book some day, and the whole thing will be about that one song, the one that got the most air play back when
Essence of Light: The Adam Smith Interview
Essence of Light The Adam Smith Interview By James Calemine Born in Macon, Georgia, in 1975, Adam Smith's photography transcends his age. Smith attended college in Mississippi when he began to frequent the juke joint of bluesman Junior Kimbrough. After Kimbrough read more...
Meeting the Icons: Flo Kennedy and Rosa Parks
by Patsy Glenn So many of the high points in my life are framed and on the walls in my computer room. One of those is the program from the 1985 State Conference of the Alabama National Organization for Women. We met in October that year at the Econo Lodge on Battleship Parkway in Mobile. In the midst of the Reagan Revolution, our theme echoed our commitment to continuing read more...
Rock and Roll Mommy
Rock and Roll Mommy by Shannon McNally I didn’t recognize the first signs of being pregnant. I mistook them for extreme road weariness. I was in the studio in Lafayette making a record with Mac Rebennack, (also known as Dr. John) and Bobby Charles. It was a record that I had looked read more...
Luther Dickinson Interview: It's A Family Affair
Luther Dickinson Interview It's A Family Affair by James Calemine The Dickinson Family ranks as one of the most influential American music families in decades. Father
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