Memphis Dispatch Archives
...Anticipation for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight...
...Anticipation for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight... I just re-watched Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. It's been three years since Tarantino released a movie. I needed a break from revising stories, and decided to delve into his last 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 Atkins.... Born June 28, 1970, in Troy, Alabama, Ace Atkins played football at Auburn University, and even graced the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1993 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 - Swampland Front Page
Rich Robinson & Amy LaVere Hit The Road Together In March
Rich Robinson & Amy LaVere Hit The Road Together In March In March, Amy LaVere will tour with
Ry Cooder's Los Angeles Stories
Ry Cooder's Los Angeles Stories Ry Cooder made music with The Rolling Stones,
No Chicago Blues For Jerry Lee Lewis
No Chicago Blues For Jerry Lee Lewis On Saturday, Jerry Lee Lewis played his first show in Chicago since 1998. Dave Hoekstra wrote a nice review in the
Indie Memphis Film Fest Opens Thursday
Indie Memphis Film Festival Nov. 3-6 The four-day 14th annual Memphis Film Festival begins Thursday. The festival includes close to 50 screenings of narrative and documentary features, short-film programs, panels and music.
The Search for Blind Lemon: Words, Music, Photos & Films from Jim Dickinson's Memoirs
Jim Dickinson's Search for Blind Lemon On September 17, Mary Lindsay Dickinson will present words, photographs, films and music from her late husband's memoirs and read more...
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 it drops, oh you gonna feel it Know that you were doing wrong. I say a pressure drop, oh pressure Oh yeah, pressure drop a drop 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 Memphis. The title refers to the city where Jones was born, and the place his musical legacy originated. A couple of years ago, Jones recorded
Upcoming Interview: Preston Lauterbach's Chitlin' Circuit: And The Road To Rock 'N' Roll
The Chitlin' Circut: And The Road To Rock 'N' Roll Memphis writer Preston Lauterbach's first book--The Chitlin Circut: And The Road To Rock 'N' Roll--arrived in the mail on Monday. An upcoming interview with Lauterbach is on the way, but I wanted to write a quick read more...
Swampland's Daily Duo of Reviews For 7/25/11: Ronnie Milsap and Hope Waits
For Monday, we present two Southern artists whose travels around their native region helped to define their diverse and eclectic sensibilities. Ronnie Milsap went from the mountains of North Carolina to Nashville with stops at Atlanta and Memphis in between while Hope Waits read more...
Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series
Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series "Oh, the streets are Rome are filled with rubble Ancient footprints are everywhere..."
Swampland's Daily Duo of Reviews For 7/20/11: Amy LaVere and John Paul Keith
Happy Wednesday, everyone! We've got a couple of great Memphis-based artists with new records. Amy LaVere has been on Swampland's radar for a while, and her latest Stranger Me is her first album is a few years. John Paul Keith's The Man That Time read more...
Amy LaVere's Stranger Me Out July 19
Amy LaVere's Latest CD Out July 19 On July 19, Archer Records will release Amy LaVere's third studio album, Stranger Me. Stranger Me read more...
T.C. Boyle's Robert Johnson Story
Stones In My Passway, Hellhound On My Trail In 1977, T.C. Boyle wrote a story about blues legend Robert Johnson titled "Stones In My Passway, Hellhound On My Trail". read more...
Happiness Is A Warm Gun: Trigger Hippy Tour Dates
Trigger Hippy Southern Tour Dates Trigger Hippy just released five new tour dates. Trigger Hippy consists of The Black Crowes' drummer
Bob Dylan's Upcoming Southern Tour Dates
Dylan Adds Southern Tour Dates Yesterday three new southern dates were scheduled on the summer leg of Bob Dylan's 2011 tour. On July 24, Dylan will perform in New Braunfels, Texas. The Bard travels to New Orleans for a July 26 show, and then onto Memphis for read more...
Olga's Whatever You Want featuring Cody Dickinson
Olga's Whatever You Want Out June 21, 2011 Singer/songwriter/guitarist Olga Wilhelmine Munding's latest album Whatever You Want will be released on June 21, 2011. Olga wrote Whatever You Want with
A Memorial Day Tribute: An Early Salute
A Salute To All The Veterans An early salute for the upcoming weekend... In honor of Memorial Day, and all the read more...
Never A Pal Like Mother
Happy Mother's Day 2011 Happy Mother's Day to Everyone! Since it's Mother's Day weekend, I thought I write a dispatch around the great Atlanta label
Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitizer Prize Winning Journalist, To Speak at University of North Alabama
Isabel Wilkerson, the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in the history of journalism, will be speaking at the University of North Alabama (in Florence, Alabama) at 12:30 PM, Thursday, April 14. read more...
Jack White To Record Jerry Lee Lewis In Nashville On April 16
Jack White Producing Jerry Lee Lewis Jack White's Third Man Records announced Monday on Record Store Day--April 16--Jerry Lee Lewis will perform live in Nashville. White will produce the live recording with a read more...
Pinetop Perkins RIP
Pinetop Perkins RIP The great blues pianist Joseph Willie “Pinetop” Perkins died today of a cardiac arrest at 97 years old in Austin, Texas. Born in Belzoni, Mississippi, Perkins played with many of America’s blues greats such as read more...
Southern College Football – End of an Era
For generations around our Swampland Footprint, the play-by-play announcer of your favorite university was like a part of the family. Yes, there was a time before ESPN and billion-dollar network deals when not every game was on television. Classic voices like Tennessee’s John read more...
The North Mississippi Allstars Talk Jim Dickinson
The North Mississippi Allstars Talk Jim Dickinson This recent NPR interview highlights the North Mississippi Allstars’ latest read more...
Levon Helm On The Road: Spring 2011
Levon Helm On The Road On Saturday, February 26, Levon Helm hosted one of his ‘Midnight Rambles’ featuring old Band-mate Garth Hudson. February read more...
Shannon McNally Plays Chickie Wah Wah Tonight in New Orleans
Shannon McNally At Chickie Wah Wah Tonight Shannon McNally's latest CD, Western Ballad, hits the street on March 22. McNally and her band Hot Sauce will play
R.L. Burnside & the Indestructible Beat of the Blues
R.L. Burnside & the Indestructible Beat of the Blues R.L. Burnside ranks as one of America’s seminal bluesman. Born during 1926 in Oxford, Mississippi, Burnside spent most of his life in the hills of North Mississippi. His slashing-style of powerful music evokes read more...
John Mellencamp's No Better Than This
John Mellencamp’s No Better Than This Recorded by T-Bone Burnett, No Better Than This counts as
Chris Robinson Brotherhood Tour Dates Announced
Chris Robinson Brotherhood Tour Dates The Black Crowes just completed their ‘Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys Tour’ in December. Since the Crowes are on hiatus,
Pre-Review First Listen: The Drive By Truckers' Go-Go Boots
Pre-Review First Listen: Drive By Truckers’ Go-Go Boots On February 15, the Drive By Truckers officially release their latest studio album,
Ben Nichols Plays The Last Pale Light in the West
Ben Nichols Plays ‘The Last Pale Light In the West’ On January 11, Lucero’s Ben Nichols will perform a solo acoustic show at Arkansas CD & Record Exchange in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The same day Nichols’ great 2008 solo effort--
Relic From The Past: Circle Sound
Relic From The Past: Circle Sound On January 19, 2007, The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson and the
Merry Christmas From Swampland
Merry Christmas From Swampland Ho, Ho, Ho…I’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from Swampland. Thanks for all the support. A Happy New Year to you all! Don’t let the Devil get you down. I’ve included a couple of read more...
North Mississippi Allstars Announce New Album & Dates with Robert Plant
North Mississippi Allstars' 2011 Plans The North Mississippi Allstars will release their new album--Keys To The Kingdom--on February 1, 2011. December 28 begins the Allstars' tour. On New Year's read more...
Luther Dickinson & The Sons of Mudboy Earn Grammy Nomination
Luther Dickinson & The Sons of Mudboy Earn Grammy Nomination Luther Dickinson and his band The Sons of Mudboy earned a Grammy nomination for their album read more...
Keith Richards Writes About Gram Parsons In Life
Keith Richards Writes About Gram Parsons in Life I’ve been reading Keith Richards’ new book, Life. I’ve already made some notes for the Swampland review, but today I reached page 247 where Keith writes about Gram Parsons. read more...
Alabama Born Matt Cain Pitches Shut Out for SF Giants in Game 2
Matt Cain, powerful and versatile pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, showed his stuff last night when he pitched a nearly perfect game shutting out the Texas Rangers 9-0. Cain threw about 102 pitches before he was relieved in the seventh inning. What a way to continue the read more...
Dylan, Petty & Drive By Truckers Participate In ‘Back To Black Friday’
Dylan, Petty & Drive By Truckers Participate In ‘Back To Black Friday’ In support of independent record stores, November 26 stands as ‘Back To Black Friday’. Artists such as Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, The Drive By Truckers, Iron & Wine, U2, read more...
The Return of Cat Power
The Return of Cat Power Atlanta girl Chan Marshall (Cat Power) plays four shows this weekend. It’s been a while since she’s been in front of a live audience, but it’s good to see her back. On Thursday, she performs in Seattle at read more...
My Morning Jacket Plays Levon Helm's Latest Midnight Ramble
My Morning Jacket Plays Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble Last Saturday My Morning Jacket played an hour-long set to open for Levon Helm’s stellar band at Helm’s latest legendary Midnight read more...
Filming "The Help": News and Blues in the Delta-- Greenwood, MS
About seven miles east of Greenwood, MS, the rolling hills suddenly go flat, a sure sign you are entering the Delta. We had driven to Greenwood via the leisurely
Shannon McNally's Debut Swampland Article: Rock & Roll Mommy
Rock And Roll Mommy By Shannon McNally I am proud to present Shannon McNally's debut Swampland contribution Rock and Roll Mommy. Shannon reveals an interesting perspective as a mother read more...
Southern Music Folk Festival Dedicated To Jim Dickinson
Southern Music Folk Festival Dedicated To Jim Dickinson Throughout the years, Jim Dickinson cultivated a relationship with the Memphis Center for read more...
Bob Dylan And the Death of Elvis Presley
Bob Dylan & the Death of Elvis Presley Since yesterday marked the 33rd anniversary of Tupelo native Elvis Presley’s death, I thought a quick dispatch regarding The King would be appropriate. I came across
The Dog Days Descend
Dog Day Afternoon In the Peach State A quick note as the Dog Days descend here in Georgia…I briefly visited Stanley Booth and Diann Blakely today to talk shop, so to speak. Look read more...
Luther & Cody Dickinson In Memphis Tomorrow Opening for Robert Plant
DuoLuco to Open For Robert Plant Deep South Shows The North Mississippi Allstars' Luther and Cody Dickinson join as DUOLUCO and will open for Robert Plant & The Band of Joy for a stretch of dates beginning tomorrow night in Memphis.
Amy LaVere Stars in The Romance of Loneliness
Amy LaVere Stars in the Romance of Loneliness The Memphis-based story of The Romance of Loneliness is about a young woman from a traditional southern family. The singer/songwriter Amy LaVere stars as Amanda, the story’s main character.
Past Interviews & Upcoming Artists of Note
Greetings Folks, I hope all is well, and everyone enjoyed Father’s Day… Change is afoot, and we’ve got a lot on the horizon, but for the past week much of the work has gone on behind the scenes. On the immediate agenda, the work of
I Ain't In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
I Ain’t In It For My Health A review of I Ain’t In It For My read more...
STAX Legend Steve Cropper's Midnight Flyer
Midnight Flyer Due Out June 15 Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T & The MGs and one of the primary architects of the indelible STAX sound, recently recorded a new studio album in Nashville. Midnight Flyer, due out on June 15, follows Cropper's 2008 Nudge read more...
Memphis Native Kirk Whalum Named President of Soulsville/Stax
Memphis Native Kirk Whalum Named President of Soulsville/Stax Memphis native Kirk Whalum—a Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist and music read more...
The Black Crowes Announce New Studio Album, "Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys" Tour & Hiatus
The Black Crowes Announce New Album, Tour & 2011 Hiatus The Black Crowes announced yesterday they will release a studio album of all acoustic material to commemorate their 20th Anniversary
Celebrate Record Store Day 2010!
Record Store Day 2010 is read more...
Wanee Report: Day Two
Swampland Wanee Report: Day Two ...A Few Notes From The Swamp... Funkadelic closed the evening out last night. It's a musical read more...
Alex Chilton RIP
Big Star Legend Passes Away Like everyone else...you never know where you'll be when you get the news...so for now, I'd like to read more...
Reba Russell Recording at Jim Dickinson's Zebra Ranch Studio
The Latest Sessions at Zebra Ranch Memphis singer/songwriter Reba Russell is currently recording at Jim Dickinson's Zebra Ranch Studios. In light read more...
A Timeless American Lineage: The Six Degrees of the Dickinson Family
The Six Degrees of The Dickinson Family Dispatch The late Jim Dickinson--along with his sons read more...
Mavis Staples Still Singing Soulful Gospel Music
Gospel Great Mavis Staples at 71
National Signing Day: Christmas Morning for Southern Football Fans
It’s finally here- a virtual holiday in our Swampland Footprint.
The Drive By Truckers' Secret To A Happy Ending
The Impending Onslaught of The Drive By Truckers Congratulations to
Neil Young, Levon Helm, Booker T. and Steve Earle All Win Grammys
Downhome 2010 Grammy Winners So, after a tribute to
The Long Awaited Lance Ledbetter Interview
The Long-Awaited Lance Ledbetter Interview The story of Dust To Digital is a divine one. In the late 1990s, Lance Ledbetter set out to discover read more...
The South Memphis String Band's Home Sweet Home
The South Memphis String Band's Debut Release The South Memphis String Band is Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart read more...
Prelude To Interview with Dust To Digital's Lance Ledbetter
Prelude To Interview with Dust To Digital President Lance Ledbetter This evening I finished transcribing my interview with the President of read more...
Neil Young Talks About The Grammys
Neil Young Honored At Grammys In
Johnny Cash's Final Studio Album American VI Out February 26
American VI Out Feb. 26
Happy BIrthday Week: Elvis Presley and Sam Phillips (Sun Records)
Today, January 8, Elvis Presley would have celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. On Tuesday, January 5, Sam Phillips, the man who read more...
Willie Mitchell RIP
Legendary Producer Passes Away at 81 Willie Mitchell--one of Al Green's read more...
Luther Dickinson: The Hardest Working Man In Rock And Roll
Luther Dickinson: The Hardest Working Man In Rock And Roll
The Black Crowes End Before The Frost Tour In San Francisco
Black Crowes Tour End This Weekend This weekend The Black Crowes end their
Potato Hole Nominated For 2 Grammys & 2010 Drive By Truckers Tour Dates
Potato Hole Nominated For 2 Grammys & 2010 Trucker Tour Dates Booker T. Jones’ latest album,
Jim Dickinson Featured In Memphis Storytellers Project
Jim Dickinson In New Memphis Legend Storytelling Project The late Jim Dickinson appears in a Memphis-produced DVD titled “The Music read more...
Luther Dickinson's Sons of Mudboy Musical Tribute To Jim Dickinson
Onward And Upward On Tuesday Luther Dickinson and The Sons of Mudboy's Onward and Upward CD was released. This collection of songs read more...
SEC Daily Fever: Georgia And Mark Richt Desperate For An Auburn Win
Georgia fans are feeling a little nervous these days. The Bulldogs have already been blown out by two rivals, Tennessee and Florida, and they will face two more in Auburn and Georgia Tech over the next three games.
SEC Daily Fever: Spurrier Says He's Staying At South Carolina For The Long Term
As South Carolina and head coach Steve Spurrier prepare to host #1 Florida on Saturday, this game is a reminder to Gamecock fans of what their coach built at his alma mater and what has not happened in Columbia.
SEC Daily Fever: Officiating Issues Creates Negative Vibes For Top League
It’s the story that won’t go away- another week, another game where bad officiating dominates the league conversation. The SEC read more...
SEC Daily Fever: LSU-Alabama Is The National Game Of The Week
The eyes of the college football world will be on Tuscaloosa Saturday afternoon when #9 LSU meets #3 Alabama. This game has conference and national read more...
SEC Daily Fever: Meyer looks bad after Spikes debacle
Many fans around the league are asking the question this week: what kind of program is Urban Meyer running in Gainesville? While many have questioned Meyer’s recruiting read more...
SEC Daily Fever: Georgia's Richt looks to right ship in Athens
While much of the attention following the Florida-Georgia game has been on Brandon Spikes eye-gouging of Washaun Ealey, the reality for the Bulldogs is that they have the feel of a program that has slipped a notch from past seasons.
SEC Daily Fever: Seemingly Insufficient Punishment For Spikes Sparks Controversy
Is a half-game suspension at home against Vanderbilt really a punishment? That’s what many are wondering after Urban Meyer read more...
SEC Daily Fever: "Cocktail Party" Remains A Great Southern tradition
It's more than just a football game. Whether it's golf tournaments, concerts, or just a long weekend with friends, the Georgia-Florida game has become a can't miss event for both fan bases and for read more...
SEC Daily Fever: Ole Miss Looks To Finish Strong
As Ole Miss prepares to travel to Auburn this Saturday, Houston Nutt's team will look to build the same second half of the season momentum that they did in 2008.
SEC Daily Fever: Tebow Shuns The Media
An interesting scenario happened after the Florida win at Mississippi State; Tim Tebow did not meet with the media.
At The Intersection of Bell, Williams, Parsons & Redding
A Brief Note At An Intersection of Country Soul The second volume of
SEC Daily Fever: LSU needs Auburn win to stay on league's top shelf
Most in the local and national media are already looking towards December for the highly- anticipated Florida-Alabama matchup in Atlanta, but one team who has the talent to throw a wrench in that scenario is LSU.
SEC Daily Fever: Nutt Back In Spotlight As Ole Miss Prepares For Arkansas
When the 2009 season kicked off, Ole Miss looked to be a contender in the West while the Arkansas was supposed to play the role of spoiler - but roles could be reveresed after this Saturday's game.
SEC Daily Fever: Kiffin And Saban Build Their Programs Using Past NFL Perspective
As Tennessee and Alabama prepare for their annual October clash, the Vols seem to be a couple of recruiting classes behind the Tide in building a roster to compete for a league title.
Jerry Wexler Memorial Celebration October 30
Tribute To Jerry Wexler In New York City on October 30 a memorial will be held for the great
SEC Daily Fever: Should Florida be on Upset Alert?
Is this the one? Even though the Florida Gators have won two of the last three National Titles, they lost a surprising game in the middle of both of those seasons. Urban read more...
SEC Daily Fever: Will LSU's Running Game Beat Florida?
Prime time national television audience, Baton Rouge, #1 vs. #4; this one should be fun. That’s the scenario as Florida travels to LSU amid questions read more...
SEC Daily Fever: LSU's Tight Win Sets Up SEC Mega-Clash
It may not have been the most well played game, but what a finish we all got to see in Athens Saturday. LSU led Georgia 6-0 after three quarters, read more...
SEC Daily Fever: Is Bama the league's top dog?
Florida still has the #1 spot in the national polls, but many believe Alabama is staking a claim as the best team in the read more...
Sam Carr RIP
Sam Carr RIP Sam Carr, the last of the great Delta drummers, died Monday. Carr’s drumming made him a sought after musician read more...
Robert Johnson's Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Robert Johnson’s Last Fair Deal Gone Down A Journey Into The Heart of Folklore “Early this morning when you knocked upon read more...
Jim Dickinson Memorial Folk Festival Tonight In Memphis
Jim Dickinson Memorial Folk Festival Tonight in Memphis at the Levitt Shell in Overton Park, the
SEC Daily Fever: Hogs-Dawgs Could Be The SEC Game of The Weekend
SEC Daily Fever is the top SEC story of the day. Disagree? Let us know. One of the more interesting matchups of the weekend has to be Georgia traveling to Arkansas. (Give Mark Richt credit - his tough schedule has kept his team on read more...
SEC Daily Fever: Chizik Tries To "Manage" Auburn Fans' Expectations
SEC Daily Fever is the top SEC story of the day. Disagree? Let us know. Auburn fans have had more than a little frustration with their offense over the last few seasons.
A New Blind Willie McTell Book
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell I came across this interesting blog regarding a read more...
Charlie Musselwhite Writes On The Passing of Jim Dickinson
Harp Legend Praises an Old Friend In pursuit of collecting quotes about the sad passing of
Bloodkin's Daniel Hutchens Writes About Jim Dickinson
Daniel Hutchens' Fond Memory of Jim Dickinson I've been reaching out to many friends and musicians to speak about or write about
Swampland Makes The New York Times; Jim Dickinson Memories
Swampland was quoted in an article in The New York Times today. Their article on the recent death of Southern music icon
The Late Great Jim Dickinson's Swampland Contributions
Jim Dickinson's Favorite Films, Musicians and Barbecue Articles
Jim Dickinson RIP
Another Brave Man Is Dead And Gone With great sadness, it is difficult to write
Black Crowes Move Up Release Date of Before The Frost...Until The Freeze
Before The Frost...Until The Freeze Due Out August 31 The read more...
James Burton Travels To Memphis For Elvis Week
Elvis Guitarist Travels To Memphis It’s Death Week in Memphis. Elvis Presley’s guitarist,
Lucero & Amy LaVere Hit the Road on Rambling Roadshow & Memphis Revue
Memphis Friends Hit The Road Memphis star Amy LaVere read more...
Jim Dickinson's Memphis Benefit
A Memphis Benefit August 8 On August 8th at 6PM a benefit will take place at the Peabody Skyway in Memphis, Tennessee, for
Hank Williams, Jr Kicking His Record Company to The Curb
According to an online interview/blog, Hank Williams, Jr. is fed up wih his record company and looking for a new recording home. He says this is his last album for CURB read more...
Guest Writer Diane Lehr and Renowned Ceramicist James Watkins
Swampland is honored to have Diane Lehr as our guest writer for this month. Lehr graciously consented to do a feature on renowned ceramicist James read more...
Hank William's, Jr's Best Album in Years, New Scrapbook Pics Lynyrd Skynyrd 1971
After eleven years of listening to new CD releases in country and Southern Rock I admit I have become somewhat jaded. It takes something really special to stop me in my tracks. Well campers, that is exactly what happened with the new release from the living legend Hank Williams, Jr read more...
28th Handy Blues Fest in Florence, Alabama, July 17-26
W. C. Handy's autobiography Father of the read more...
Orrin Hatch's Folly: Senator, College Football Is About Conferences, Not Teams
After concluding Senate hearings about the BCS, Senator Orrin Hatch wrote an op-ed piece that appeared on ESPN.com. Here's a selection of that article: During the June 7 read more...
An Excerpt From Tuesday Interview with Cody Dickinson
Excerpt From Tuesday’s Cody Dickinson Interview Two days ago I interviewed
Cody Dickinson: Q & A From the Tour Bus
Today's Interview with Cody Dickinson I just conducted an insightful interview with Cody Dickinson. He was riding on the tour bus on the way to Canada read more...
Time Flies Like An Arrow
“Time read more...
A Return From Outer-Space with Cody Dickinson
Greetings Good Folks, After some technical difficulty and personal turbulence, I’m able to get back online. Much to read more...
NBA Draft: Swampland's Pro Hoops Teams
Pro sports has a problem in the Swampland Footprint. Considered the top level of competition and interest throughout the rest of the country, the pro game doesn't resonate with read more...
FedEx's Fred Smith Could Be The Perfect New Owner for the Rams
In our post-draft update, SPF wrote about the murky future of the St Louis Rams. Since then, they've officially put up the "For Sale" sign leading many read more...
Tennessee Rules: Places to Experience, Music That Rocks, Vistas That Amaze
This month I want to share with you the incredible diversity and exquisite beauty of my neighboring state, the "volunteer" state of Tennessee. From geography (Tennessee is often referred to as the read more...
Get Well Wishes For Jim Dickinson
Memphis Great Jim Dickinson In Hospital Last night at midnight
Gritz Loses Another Old Friend, Koko Taylor
A long time friend of Gritz and a Grammy Award-winning blues legend, Koko Taylor, died on June 3, 2009 in her hometown of Chicago, IL, as a result of complications following her May 19 surgery to correct a gastrointestinal bleed. She was 80. I first met Koko while writing read more...
New Black Crowes Tour Dates
THE BLACK CROWES ANNOUNCE THE FIRST LEG OF read more...
Koko Taylor RIP
Koko Taylor 1935-2009 Born in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 28, 1935, the great Koko Taylor died today in Chicago at 80. Orphaned at 11, she began to read more...
A Friday Conversation with the Great Jim Dickinson
Today’s Conversation with the High Priest of Memphis Mojo I just got off the phone with the legendary
Last Night's Interview with Marc Ford
Last Night’s Interview with Marc Ford Last night Marc read more...
Marc Ford Joins Booker T. Jones' Touring Band
In preparation for my upcoming review on Ryan Bingham’s new CD,
Bob Dylan's Together Through Life
Dylan's New Together Through Life On The Way "I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver I'm reading James Joyce Some read more...
Songs & Stories: An Allstar Memphis Benefit Show
Memphis Heavies Perform Benefit On Sunday April 19, 2009, an allstar benefit show will take place at Minglewood Hall in Memphis. This show is not read more...
Calipari Looks to Return Kentucky to SEC (and National) Prominence
The big decision has finally been made. After nine years of building up Memphis to a perennial power, John Calipari has decided to leave the Bluff City for the money, big conference pedigree, and read more...
Billy Gillispie's Fate Could Send Big Ripples Throughout the SEC and the Footprint
Mark Wiedmer at the Chattanooga Time Free Press has it right. If Billy Gillispie gets fired, it will create a coaching shakeup around the Swampland read more...
Guest Article on Willie King by Andy Moore
Andy Moore on Blues Great Willie King Greetings folks...as everyone knows, now and then we have guest contributions. Today I'd like to bring read more...
Big Medicine Come Soon
"Beyond the horizon, in the Springtime or Fall Love waits forever for one and for all." --Bob Dylan Greetings read more...
SEC vs ACC: Clemson and South Carolina Try to Make the Palmetto State Relevant
In continuing our look at the states with both ACC and SEC teams, we move to the Palmetto State, where a ton of changes occurred in the offseason.
SEC vs ACC: Georgia and Georgia Tech Battle for Peach State Supremacy
With recruiting classes signed and spring practices approaching, it’s a good time to look at states in the Swampland Footprint that share SEC and ACC teams. We’re going to start in the Peach State, where a long time
For Ole Miss and Arkansas (and Nutt and Petrino), It Looks Like a Win/Win
We've all witnessed the media firestorm surrounding Auburn and Tennessee's respective head coaching hires of Gene Chizik and Lane Kiffin. Like they tend to do, the media took some minor fires of controversy and poured gasoline on them, leaving any remnants of logic and reason read more...
In Defense of Lane Kiffin: The SEC "Family Feud" with Urban Meyer
There is no other conference more proud of itself than the SEC. SEC fans from rival teams hate each other with a passion bordering on the pathological, but when success arrives, it is embraced not just for the winning team but for the conference at large.
SEC Dominance - From the Field to Recruiting (And It Isn't Stopping Soon)
The reaction to Signing Day is always interesting as every coach in America is thrilled with their class while fans have mixed reactions to their school’s ranking and new players. Everyone that followed Wednesday's coverage saw plenty of ESPN's favorite big-market teams read more...
Xmas in February for Southern College Football Fans (SEC, Big 12, ACC, Big East)
It’s finally here! National Signing Day is upon us, and this is the time where quality programs establish themselves for the upcoming years. The welcoming of a new recruiting class energizes fans and provides coaches with the opportunity to show that their school will be-or read more...
Mack Brown and the Longhorns Must Judiciously Draw Talent from their Texas Base
Water is wet, the sky is blue, and the University of Texas is working on another top-notch recruiting class. The Longhorns Mine Their State's Natural Talent Base Most BCS schools try to comb their region (if not the read more...
To Stewart Mandel, We Say, "SEC Coaching Dollars Make Sense"
Chalk SI.com's Stewart Mandel as the latest member of the national media that just doesn’t understand the culture of the SEC football landscape. Mandel's latest involves
Chris Robinson-The Jackdaw of Perception: From The Black Crowes to California Folk
Chris Robinson-The Jackdaw of Perception: From The Black Crowes To California Folk "Windswept stars blink and smile Another read more...
Lane Kiffin is Already Making an Impact on the SEC (and Paul Finebaum)
A few weeks ago, I wrote how I thought Tennessee and Lane Kiffin were going to be a great fit for each other. There was quite a bit of criticism for a major power in the SEC choosing a read more...
Eric Quincy Tate, "Drinking Man's Friend," a Look Back to '72
It’s really sad that Eric Quincy Tate never really received the acclaim they so richly deserved. From their stellar albums to their smoking concerts and gigs in Piedmont Park with
A Conversation with The Drive By Truckers' Patterson Hood
A Call To Patterson Hood "I don't know God but I fear his wrath I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path."
Booker T. Jones & The Drive By Truckers
Booker T & The Truckers Along with Neil Young & Bloodkin
President-elect Barack Obama and The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was a blistering day in August of 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and read more...
Dungy and the Colts Both Needed a New Direction
A good thing happened in Indy on Monday – Tony Dungy retired from the NFL to spend more time with his family in Tampa Bay. It’s nice to see the veteran head coach pursue his dream read more...
Ole Miss and LSU Cruise; Alabama and South Carolina Snooze
Overall it’s been a pretty good bowl season for the SEC, going 5-2 with Florida left to play in the National Title Game. The highlights include Mississippi and Houston Nutt getting a
Lane Kiffin fits the Vols and the SEC
Tribal Fever did a great job of presenting the challenge that is coaching in the 21st century SEC. I wanted to focus on the Tennessee job where Phil read more...
SEC and Big 12 Championship Game Reax
The college football regular season ended by giving us the matchup that made the most sense--the SEC Champion vs. the Big 12 Champion. The BCS title game should be a high-scoring, exciting affair and one that all of the fans in our Swampland footprint will appreciate. Florida will read more...
Excerpt #4 From Stanley Booth Interview Series Volume 1: Otis Redding
Excerpt #4 From Stanley Booth Interview Series Volume 1: Otis Redding 12/08/08 In Excerpt #4 Booth discusses his career after learning the read more...
Saturday's Slate: Conference Championships
Here we are, after a week off due to technical difficulties, to find ourselves on the verge of crowning some conference champions and setting up the BCS Title teams. It has been a long and exciting year. Luckily for us, today's games have the potential to live up to the read more...
Swampland Footprint National Title: Big 12 vs. SEC
So it’s Oklahoma that gets the chance to represent the Big 12 South in Kansas City, and they will probably get a shot at the National title with a victory. Of read more...
Excerpt 3 From Stanley Booth Interview Series Volume 1: Otis Redding
Excerpt #3 From Stanley Booth Interview Series Volume 1 12/2/08 In Mystery And Manners’ ongoing interview series read more...
Excerpt 2 From Stanley Booth Interview Series Vol 1: Otis Redding
Excerpt 2 From Vol 1 of Mystery And Manners' Stanley Booth Interview Series 11/23/08 In continuation of
Excerpt From Stanley Booth Interview Series Vol. 1: Otis Redding
Excerpt From Mystery And Manners' Stanley Booth Interview Series Volume 1 11/22/08 Tonight I thought I'd include a small excerpt from read more...
Snowman's Six-Pack of Reax from Saturday
1. It has finally happened. For the first time since 1982, the Vanderbilt Commodores will be eligible to go to a bowl. Vandy rode D.J. Moore read more...
The Sunday Slate (Week Eleven): Key Swampland Showdowns in Jax, DC, and Indy!
After four SPF teams have byes last week (Dallas, Washington, Tampa Bay, and Cincinnati), we are heading into the home stretch. Intra-division matchups will determine playoffs berths. This week our two SPF NFC East teams and the entire AFC South face off. As read more...
Saturday's Slate: SEC vs. Big 12 South Looking Good!
After a season of many a wild ride, a little clarity emerged from last week's games. The SEC has their championship game set. The Big 12 is now down to three (maybe four) potential BCS participants. The rest of our TF conferences have a ways to go, but none of read more...
Stanley Booth Reports On William Eggleston Photo Show in New York City
Stanley Booth Returns From New York City 11/13/08 I spoke with Stanley Booth this read more...
Australia Rocks Classic Bonnie Bramlett Collection
I am such a lucky cat. Seriously. I have been loving Delaney and Bonnie ever since Junior High, and I still find it hard to believe just how nice both of them are. I met
Snowman's Six-Pack of Reax from Saturday
1. After all of the Nick Saban drama last week in Baton Rouge, we finally got a close game from a SEC marquee matchup. Alabama and LSU staged a very hard-fought battle, but as we’ve written about so much this season in the SEC, the quarterback play was the difference. Alabama read more...
Southern Soul Music Dominates "Soul Men" Film
SOUL MEN It is a truly strange feeling going to see a film on opening day knowing that one of its main actors is dead. It was that way with The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger, but even
Notes From A Fall Saturday Afternoon
"May this shovel Loose your trouble, Lay them far away..." read more...
Saturday's Slate: The November Home Stretch Begins!
College football remains the Footprint's most compelling and spectacular sport. The 2008 season has delivered us yet again a roller coaster ride of sporting goodness. The stakes have been high all season. So far, at least two key programs (Tennessee and read more...
End of an Era in Knoxville and the SEC
The Dean of SEC football coaches, Phillip Fulmer, announced on Monday that he would agree with the University of Tennessee’s decision for him no to return for the 2009 season. It was one of the
Snowman's Six-Pack of Reax from Saturday
1. Wow – what an instant classic in the Lonestar State. Texas Tech pulled off an amazing upset of #1 Texas with one second to go and sent their raucous fans read more...
Saturday's Slate: Top Games in Each Conference Will Decide Champions
Georgia and Florida in Jacksonville The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party has more at stake than ever – read more...
Snowman's Six-Pack of Reax from Saturday
1) The biggest difference between teams in the SEC this season is simply quarterback play. Alabama, Georgia, and Florida came into the season with experienced/quality signal callers, and they have been the class of the league. Lack of experience or just poor play at quarterback has read more...
Saturday's Slate: A Bit of Relative Calm Before the Storm
Although you can't take a week off in college football, this week seems like a palate cleanser before some of the biggest homestretch games are played. November will feature great game after great game and next week's
A Nice Weekend of Hate in the SEC
One of the most hate-filled rivalries in college football will see another chapter written on Saturday when the #2 Alabama Crimson Tide invade Knoxville to take on the Volunteers. The “Third read more...
Saturday's Slate: BCS Busters vs. Disciplined Talent
Last week was a lesson in symmetry. Many teams met on the field that looked like mirror images. Something had to give, and it did. 3 of the top 5 teams lost giving the nation a new number one, Texas, who beat Oklahoma in what was probably a top 10 of all time Red read more...
This Evening's Stanley Booth Call
The Latest News From Writer Stanley Booth 10/13/08 This evening I received a call from my old friend
Saturday's Slate: Symmetry Saturday
We've already been treated to upsets throughout the Tribal Fever landscape, but let's not forget that upsets require a precondition of disparity between teams, etiher real or imagined. This Saturday's games are of a different sort. It seems across the board that all read more...
Conversation with Stanley Booth
A Conversation with Southern Scribe Stanley Booth 9/27/08 When things get weird, I always call my old friend
Saturday's Slate: Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead!
Of course, this means that the two perennial pretenders that stand in our way, Ohio State and USC, have both lost and neither appear to have the right kinds of games left to springboard back into the national title hunt. That should mean that the national championship game read more...
New Johnny Cash Recording & Documentary Set For Release
New Documentary Airs October 23 9/25/08 A new read more...
Marc Ford and the Neptune Blues Club
Another Transmission From The Great Marc Ford 9/3/08 We've missed each other's messages for the past couple of days, but I finally spoke with read more...
Gamecocks Destruction of Wolfpack Serves Notice to Clemson and the ACC
Last night was the glorious kick off to the 2008 college football season. Teams from almost every conference had games allowing us some very early previews of what might be coming in the weeks ahead. Everyone now knows about the
From Athens, Georgia To Jerry Wexler
From Athens, Georgia To Jerry Wexler: A Feast of Friends… 8/16/08 There’s not much time to write this read more...
Southern Music's Best Friend, Jerry Wexler Has Died at 91
Jerry Wexler was rock and roll. He was also rhythm and blues. Oh, and Southern rock. Oh, yeah, Wex was a huge fan of Southern music of all sorts, and of the key architects in the history of music over the past 50 years. He was instrumental in helping Phil Walden read more...
A Humorous Comparison of College Football Between the South and the North
As our beloved college football season nears, we at Tribal Fever thought everyone should read this comparison between college football in the South versus our Northern counterparts. (This has been making the rounds via email so many of you might have already seen it - read more...
RIP Isaac Hayes
Soul Legend Passes Away Today 8/10/08 Soul legend Isaac Hayes died today at 65. Hayes played a vital role in the
The Dog Star Rages and Leos Roar
It is August and the dog days of summer are upon us. The ancient Romans noticed that the hottest days of the year, late July and early August, coincided with the appearance of
A Forgotten Hero: Chips Moman
A Forgotten Hitmaker Chips Moman 7/13/08 "She's not just a plaything, She expects love just like a man."
Steve Cropper Remembers First Meeting with Otis Redding
Steve Cropper Remembers His First Meeting with Soul Legend Otis Redding 7/11/08 From coastal Georgia, near the Florida line, I'm enjoying the read more...
Words From Charlie
Charlie Musselwhite On Muddy Waters 7/5/08 ...I hope everyone enjoyed their Independence Day... I wanted to send a few lines read more...
An American Hero: Steve Cropper
Mystery And Manners Interview with The Great Steve Cropper 7/1/08 "I left my home in Georgia Headed read more...
NBA Draft Post-Mortem
It was an interesting NBA Draft night with Miami and Memphis from our region making big headlines. Before I take a look at some of the specifics, the question has to be asked: Does the NBA have to make the Draft so complicated for the fans? It’s amazing how many picks are made read more...
...A Dog Day Afternoon...
Georgia Falls In College World Series...Random Notes... 6/25/08 The Fresno State Bulldogs beat The Georgia Bulldogs tonight 6-1 in the read more...
Female Soul Opens the Summer
A Cast of Female Artists Bloom In Summer 6/23/08 "One day I woke up to find Right in the bed next to mine Some woman broke me read more...
The Great Charlie Musselwhite
An Interview with The "Greatest Living Harp Player" 6/19/08 He would never admit to it, but many legendary musicians have referred to read more...
Mystery And Manners Honorary Southern Artist Volume Seven: Neil Young
Mystery And Manners Honorary Southern Artist: Volume Seven—Neil Young 6/18/08 “I’m a vampire Sucking blood from the read more...
Southern Remedy On The River: The Black Crowes In Chattanooga, Tennessee
Southern Remedy On The River: The Black Crowes Perform Chattanooga, Tennessee 6/7/08 "Windswept stars blink and read more...
Amy LaVere & The North Mississippi All-Stars Storm Atlanta
Amy LaVere & The North Mississippi All-Stars Storm Atlanta: Notes From A Soundcheck 5/31/08
The Amazing Amy LaVere
The Amazing Amy LaVere & Topanga Days 5/22/08 This evening I conducted an interview with the beautiful and talented Amy LaVere. Amy read more...
Conference USA Must Step Up to Avoid Potential College Football Upheaval
Last year, Tribal Fever presented a modest proposal about conference realignment for teams in the Swampland Footprint. The proposal came from our understanding of the love and passion of college football in read more...
South Dominates College Baseball
by Patrick Snow There is one more week of college baseball before the conference tournaments, and the teams in our Swampland footprint are looking very strong. I had the pleasure this past weekend to attend a great 3-game series between Vanderbilt and Georgia. The Bulldogs read more...
SEC Football Update, Memphis Style!
Ron Higgins was on fire over the weekend. He's one of the best writers about SEC football newspaper writers outside of Tony Barnhart. (For those of you just finding out about Ron, please
Why Swampland Sports Loves the BCS
Despite winning back to back national titles in football, the SEC susre seems to hate the BCS. Lately, this hatred has been reaching a new level. It all started when University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams announced a proposal for
Why I Love Bonnie Bramlett
I remember reading about Delaney and Bonnie a lot back in high school, during those days when I was constantly read more...
Outward Bound
“The eye and mind would be functioning as a camera. The writing would be selective and necessarily interpretive—but once the image was written the words would be final.” --Hunter read more...
Billy Bob Thornton's Boxmasters Signed to Vanguard
Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters have signed a deal with Vanguard with a 2-CD set due out June 10. The Boxmasters, who we first wrote about after attending their
Dickinson's Eats & Dylan's Prize
Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize & Jim Dickinson's Best On The Road Eating 4/7/08 Evening Folks, I hope all is well on this read more...
A Shot of the Blues
A Daily Dose of Authenticity...Keith Richards...James Burton...MLK...Widespread Panic...The Black Crowes...Jim Dickinson... 4/4/08 As Spring read more...
The Legacy of Ardent Records
The Legacy of Ardent Records 4/2/08 In light of my recent interview with the great
Snowflakes: Southern Sweet 16
Here a quick primer for our teams in this weekend’s NCAA Tournament. East – This is definitely the Heavyweight bracket for our Swampland region. With #1 overall seed North Carolina playing near home in Charlotte, the Tar Heels have to be read more...
Snowflakes: Tar Heels are the Tourney's Favorite
The best postseason in sports is upon us with the NCAA Tournament beginning. Brackets will soon be ruined as productivity takes a break for a couple of days in offices across the country. College football will seemingly always be king in our Swampland region (with a few exceptions read more...
Snowflakes: Conference USA's Mediocrity is True Source of Calipari's Frustration
Memphis has their sights set on the Big Dance and the Final Four as they cruise through another C-USA Tournament at home. When the Tigers beat UAB, John Calipari became the only coach besides Adolph Rupp to win
The Dickinson's Mojo & The Black Crowes' Voodoo
Mystery & Manners Investigates The Mojo of The Dickinson Family & The Black Crowes' Voodoo 3/11/02 "Don't bring down the read more...
Snowflakes: C-USA/Big East Hoops
* Well, it finally happened. The 47-game home winning streak and the perfect record on the season ended for Memphis last Saturday when Tennessee defeated them, 66-62, in the raucous FedEx Forum. Surprisingly, the Tigers were outhustled and outrebounded by the smaller Vols who made read more...
Snowflakes: #1 vs #2
With all due respect.to the other games this weekend, there’s only one mammoth matchup read more...
Another Call To Harry Crews & Beyond
...An Ongoing Pursuit & Recording of the Mystery And Manners Saga...Widespread Panic...Jim Dickinson...Harry Crews and beyond... 2/19/08 “In the time I was with read more...
New CD's from Delaney, Bonnie and Whitlock
This may be the only time in history that the stars have lined up like this. Literally. If you check out the GRITZ CD reviews, you'll see that our three latest reviews have a common thread. The artists were all members of the legendary Delaney Bonnie read more...
Jim Dickinson On The Line
Mystery & Manners Interview With Memphis Legend Jim Dickinson 2/9/08 "She shivers just like jelly in the bowl."
Snowflakes: Big East/C-USA Hoops
* With the league’s RPI being 11th in the nation, it’s a distinct possibility that Conference USA could be a one-bid league this season. Even though John Calipari has tried to talk up C-USA, the conference is just not performing up to the “right below the BCS read more...
Adventures In The (Pig) Skin Trade On Super Bowl Sunday
Roving Notes On Super Bowl Sunday 2/3/08 "There is some kind of back-door connection in my head between Super Bowls and The Allman read more...
Snowflakes: C-USA/Big East Hoops
by Patrick Snow * Could this week finally bring the contest where #1 Memphis actually loses a conference game? The last time that happened was at UAB on March 2nd, 2006. On Wednesday night, the undefeated Tigers travel to Houston to battle the 15-3 Cougars. After read more...
Luther Dickinson: Night Before theTour...
Luther Dickinson Talks Present, Past & Future 1/16/08 Things have been quite busy as of late. I've just about completed my interview read more...
Full Moon Fever With Stanley Booth
Full Moon Fever With Stanley Booth 12/24/07 Full moon on the Little Satilla River...I return to my homesoil for the holidays, and it ain't the read more...
Southern Greats Play Post Led Zeppelin London Gig
Sam Moore, Ben E. King, Percy Sledge and Solomon Burke Perform Post Led Zep Gig 12/11/07 Ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman's band, the
John Sayles Interview
Mystery & Manners John Sayles Interview 12/8/07 On Thursday I interviewed John Sayles. Sayles' new movie Honeydripper was filmed in Alabama. Honeydripper read more...
TF Rivalry Week Preview
Rivalry games define college football. More than bowl games or even conference championships, a win against your rival means bragging rights for a year. That is why this weekend's game can often be the hardest to call. A team with a losing record can suddenly make read more...
Johnny Cash's First Wife's New Book
New Book From the Late Vivian Cash 11/19/07 Vivian Cash,
TF Saturday Preview: The Year of Transition Nears An End
The wild year continues. In many ways this was just a sign of the transition college football around the Footprint has experienced. In some ways, it shouldn't be as surprising as it has been. Nick Saban's arrival lit a fire under everyone. The ante was read more...
The Word Returns
The Word Returns In December 11/14/07 Robert Randolph (The Robert Randolph Family Band), Cody &
Coen Brothers Adapt Cormac McCarthy's Book No Country For Old Men Into Film
Coen Brothers Adapt Cormac McCarthy's Book No Country For Old Men Into Film 11/11/07 A new Coen Brothers movie, based read more...
TF Saturday Preview: Everything's Still To Be Decided
Patrick Snow has it right. This year's season of college football has shown that it is one of the most compelling sports to follow as a fan, especially in the Footprint.
TF Saturday Preview: Pole, er.. Bowl Position
If you aren't a Florida or Georgia fan, this weekend might be a good one to spend with the kids. This is a pretty thin weekend for good games in the Footprint. That's why Athlon's college football preview spends most of its time previewing games outside our read more...
TF's Saturday Preview: Act Like You've Been There Before!
It's the old saying when a player celebrates a little too much - act like you've been there before. This rules seems to also hold true to some of our Footprint's winning neophytes. When programs are new to winning, they don't know how to handle themselves. That's read more...
TF's Saturday Preview: The History Behind SEC Dominance
Tribal Fever would like to start this weekend's festivities by directing everyone to a fantastic series on ESPN.com about the SEC. Which leads us to this week's focus - the historical read more...
Tribal Fever's Weekend Slate (10/6/2007)
Let's start with this week's College Football Preview from Athlon. Swampland's own Patrick Snow hosts each week. (Read Patrick's new column on the state of baseball in read more...
William Eggleston: The Father of Color Photography
The Photography of William Eggleston 10/4/07 Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1939,
Blues Great Memphis Minnie Honored
Blues Great Memphis Minnie Honored 9/28/07 In Walls, Mississippi, the female guitarist and songwriter Memphis Minnie was honored with a read more...
Swampland welcomes Tribal Fever!
It was only a matter of time before Swampland Sports starting covering the colleges in earnest. Today marks the start of Tribal Fever, Swampland.com's dispatch dedicated to college sports in the South. We have new features up including Patrick Snow's latest read more...
CD and DVD releases for week of September 18, 2007
New Releases Doyle Bramhall Is It News (Yep Roc) Jim Dickinson
Macon's Tribute To Otis Redding
Macon's Tribute To Otis Redding 9/16/07 At the Georgia Music Hall of Fame read more...
It Was Thirty Years Ago Today
I can remember exactly where I was when I heard that Elvis was dead. I was in my Barracuda, turning left into the Westgate Mall in Spartanburg, SC. I used to go to that mall a lot, haunting the record and book stores. The guy on WORD-AM sounded genuinely broken up as read more...
CD and DVD releases for week of August 14, 2007
Darren Kozelsky Let Your Mind Fly (Smith Entertainment) Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds
DEATH WEEK
The 30 year anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death falls on August 16, 2007. Like it or not, Elvis ranks as a southern icon. Elvis changed the way people looked at music the way Ted Turner changed the way people look at TV.
Swampland Sports Six-Pack for the week ending 7/30/07
Your weekly filter for the top sports stories around the South 1. One of the biggest connection points for fans of the NFL is having trust in their starting quarterback. This is a key area where the three Florida teams have struggled during the last few read more...
CD and DVD releases for week of July 31, 2007
New Releases 10 Mile Crossing 10 Mile Crossing (Smith Entertainment) Chris Duarte read more...
Swampland Sports Six-Pack for the week ending 7/22/07
Your weekly filter for the top sports stories around the South 1. What a messy story. The news of Michael Vick’s federal indictment seems to have split fans in the city of Atlanta, and probably has given Falcons owner Arthur Blank a splitting headache. The read more...
CD and DVD releases for week of July 17, 2007
New Releases Raul Malo After Hours (New Door) Wille Mack
The True Adventures of Stanley Booth
6/10/07 THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF STANLEY BOOTH As I wrote in the intro to my Charlie Louvin
Swampland Gets The Blues
Ain’t nothin’ like the blues. From the distant wail of Son House, to the darkness of Robert Johnson running from the Hell Hound, the blues are pure magic. In no other style of music can a song about “shootin’ your woman down because she cheated on you” read more...
Hank Jr. Assault Charges Dropped
Memphis prosecutors dropped assault charges against Hank Williams Jr., citing lack of evidence about the 2006 incident. A hotel cocktail waitress alleged that Williams yelled obscenities and grabbed her in the March 18, 2006 incident. Williams was in Memphis because two read more...
Sir Mack Rice Keeps On Keepin' On
2/18/07 Stax Records songwriter Sir Mack Rice penned "Mustang Sally" (Wilson Pickett), "Respect Yourself" (Staple Singers), "Cheaper To Keep Her" (Johnny Taylor), and "Cadillac Assembly Line" for Albert King. Sir Mack survives as one read more...
Tony Joe White Releases "Uncovered" on Swamp Records
1/1/07 On Tony Joe White's latest CD, Uncovered, he renders new versions of "Rainy Night in Georgia", "Did Somebody Make a Fool Out of You", and "Taking the Midnight Train", as well as seven new compositions. Musicians such as Elvis read more...
Townes Van Zandt & Eddie Hinton on Film
12/11/06 The work of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt is now available on DVD. Be Here To Love Me can be found at www.townesthemovie.com. A new book about Van Zandt is due on March 7, 2007. John Kruth's book is titled read more...
Robinson & Dickinson Collaborate
12/10/06 Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) and Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi All-Stars) will perform as Circle Sound on Friday January 19, 2007, at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. Black Crowes bassist Sven Pippien and Robinson solo project drummer Bill Dobrow serve as the read more...