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...Anticipation for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight...

(Sep 21st 2015, 23:13)

...Anticipation for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight... I just re-watched Quentin Tarantino's read more...

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A Trip Back in Time: A Review of Bob Keefe's "Stories From the Okefenokee"

(Aug 16th 2013, 17:48)

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...

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View the BBC's Southern Rock Documentary on Swampland

(Apr 18th 2012, 09:17)

Swampland has added the BBC's new Southern Rock Documentary to it front page. Go here to view it -

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Life Lessons in The Big Easy by Martha Gragido

(Apr 10th 2012, 14:17)

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...

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"How Do You Like Your Blueeyed Boy, Mr. Death": Harry Crews (1935-2012)

(Mar 30th 2012, 12:46)

Harry Crews! I guess I thought he would live forever. When all of those years of out of control drinking did not kill him, I read more...

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Review of: David Lummis

Review of The Coffee Shop Chronicles : Part 2

The Coffee Shop Chronicles of New Orleans, Part 2: The Last Beaucoeur by

Review of: Jim White

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...

Review of: Honey Blue

Nashville 48

(Paper Boat Records) Honey Blue's latest EP, Nashville 48, was recorded in Nashville during April 2011. This read more...

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Get In Union: Bessie Jones with the Sea Island Singers: 1959-1966

Get In Union: Bessie Jones with the Sea Island Singers and Others: Alan Lomax Recordings 1959-1966 Tompkins Square By James Calemine Alan Lomax once declared the Golden Isles of Georgia home of the American song. Get In Union: Bessie Jones with the Sea Island Singers and Others, a 2 CD set, features 26 previously unreleased tracks. read more...

Deep Water And Blue Souls: Roger Pinckney's Blow The Man Down

Deep Water And Blue Souls Roger Pinckney's Blow The Man Down By James Calemine "Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night The first one's named sweet Anne Marie And she's my heart's delight The second one is prison, baby The sheriff's on my trail read more...

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The Grayson Capps Interview: The Zen of Grayson Capps

The Zen of Grayson Capps By James Calemine From wonder into wonder existence opens. Lao Tzu Grayson Capps was driving somewhere on Alabama's Gulf Coast when I called him last Thursday. The following day, he began to tour in support of his new studio album

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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