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A Modern Legacy of America's Finest Archivists
A Modern Legacy of America's Finest Archivists A treasure trove of old, obscure American music exists out read more...
Amy LaVere Discusses Bob Dylan
Amy LaVere Discusses Bob Dylan In March,
Colonel Bruce Hampton on Widespread Panic: In The Beginning
Colonel Bruce Hampton on Widespread Panic: In The Beginning This week I interviewed
Rebecca Meredith, Author of The Last of the Pascagoula, Has Alabama Roots
I discovered Rebecca Woods Meredith when I received a copy of her read more...
Cormac McCarthy Sells First Film Script Titled The Counselor
Cormac McCarthy Sells First Script Writer
FX's Justified Leads Elmore Leonard To Release New And Old Books About Raylan Givens
Swampland reviewed Elmore Leonard's fine short story collection
Sam Rivers RIP
Jazz Musician Sam Rivers Passes Away At 88 Oklahoma-born jazz musician Sam Rivers passed away on December read more...
Alabama Born, Auburn Educated Octavia Spencer Wins Golden Globe
The 2011 fall issue of the Auburn University alumni magazine featured a stunning photo of Octavia Spencer on the cover, not as Minny, read more...
Widespread Panic's Dave Schools Discusses Mickey Hart's Sounds of Space
Dave Schools Discusses Sounds of Space This evening I conducted an interview with
A Conversation with Jerry Masters: "Hanging From A Tree By My Knees"
Jerry Masters, musician and sound engineer for nearly every hit record cut in the Shoals from the late 60s through the early 70s, and read more...
Discourse Reviews
Old Clinton BAR-B-Q House
James Calemine's "Never Ending Soul Food Tour" includes documented visits to barbecue joints, catfish dens, chicken read more...
The Last of the Pascagoula: A Review
If They Move...Kill 'Em
(Grove Press) Published in 1994, David Weddle's biography of filmmaker
Vertically Coastal by Jerri Chaplin---A Review
I met Jerri Chaplin read more...
Reverie
(Anti) Joe Henry's interesting musical journey coalesces on his latest album Reverie. These 14 original songs read more...
Underground
(Columbia) Originally released in 1968,
Dirt Floor
(Messenger Records) Chris read more...
Still Looking Up At The Stars
(Speranza Recordings) Greensboro, North Carolina, native Bruce Piephoff has been writing, recording and performing songs for read more...
Palmer's Village Cafe
Palmer's Village Cafe 223 Mallery Street Saint Simons Island, GA 31522 912-634-5515 James read more...
Devout Catalyst
(Grateful Dead Records) In 1991, Ken Nordine recorded a spoken word album, Devout Catalyst, at the Grateful Dead read more...
Discourse ArticlesWalking with Zambi: The Colonel Bruce Hampton Interview
Walking with Zambi: The Colonel Bruce Hampton Interview By James Calemine "I do not come to you as a reality. I come to you as a myth."
My Year of Scary Movies: (Part 9) The Shining
My Year of Scary Movies (Part 9): The Shining By Daniel Hutchens The story goes that during filming of The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick once called novelist Stephen King (from whose book the film was drawn) at about 3:00 in the morning. “Do you believe in God?” Kubrick asked.
A Georgia Son in the Big Apple: The Brit Whittle Interview
A Georgia Son in the Big Apple The Brit Whittle Interview By James Calemine Acting is a rough trade. Few attain moments on the silver screen. The streets of Hollywood and New York are paved with bones of dead aspirant thespians. Georgia native Brit Whittle is making a name for himself in New York City. In November, Whittle appeared in read more...
Through A Crooked Sun: The Rich Robinson Interview
Through A Crooked Sun The Rich Robinson Interview By James Calemine "The prodigy of my youth is now broken
My Year of Scary Movies: (Part 8) Halloween
HALLOWEEN (1978) Directed by John Carpenter Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence By Daniel Hutchens "He came home..." I know, I know: this is such a cliche, writing read more...
The Chad Faries Interview
The Chad Faries Interview By James Calemine Drive Me Out of My Mind: 24 Houses in 10 Years by Chad Faries slices to the bone. It's a gritty tale of a troubled boy raised by cutthroat women that takes places mostly in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Chad Faries is also the author of two collections of poetry, The Border Will Be read more...
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 Preston Lauterbach Interview: Cultural Innards of the Chitlin' Circut
The Preston Lauterbach Interview: Cultural Innards of the Chitlin' Circut By James Calemine Preston Lauterbach's first book--The Chitlin' Circut And The Road to Rock 'N' Roll-- traverses new ground in the history of American music literature. read more...
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...
My Year of Scary Movies (Part 7): Roman Polanski's Unholy Trinity
My Year of Scary Movies (Part 7) Roman Polanski's Unholy Trinity by Daniel Hutchens Roman Polanski made three horror films over the course of eleven years which have come to be referred to as his “Unholy Trinity” or his “Apartment Trilogy.” Not exactly a trilogy of connected stories, but more a connection of images and read more...
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