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Download the New Gritz Compilation CD Free
The new GRITZ STONE GROUND & SOUTHERN COMPILATION VOLUME read more...
Jim Jarmusch Conjures Tom Waits, Neil Young & The North Mississippi Allstars In Interview
Jim Jarmusch Conjures Tom Waits, Neil Young & North Mississippi Allstars Jim Jarmusch serves as the guest curator on read more...
The Squidbillies' Georgia Connection
Wicked Laughs On The Squidbillies Squidbillies is an animated television series on Cartoon Network. It’s about read more...
Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan--Twenty Years After His Tragic Death
Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, called read more...
Ryan Bingham & Willie Nelson Hit The Road Together
Ryan Bingham & Willie Nelson Tour Together Ryan Bingham’s new CD,
2010 Big 12 Football Preview
It was quite the offseason for the Big 12, with the focus on school defections to other conferences. While Nebraska and Colorado will read more...
Diann Blakely's Notes on the State of Poetry Series: Number Four
Diann Blakely's Notes on the State of Poetry #4 April 1 began National Poetry Month. Guest Swampland/Mystery And Manners read more...
Jimmy Dean--"Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham"
Jimmy Dean, who died on June 13 of this year, would have been 82 read more...
Big 12 Media Days Bring a Huge Sense of Relief
What a summer it has been for the Big 12. From the impending departures of Nebraska and Colorado to the league remaining intact, the read more...
Ryan Bingham's Bootleg Series
Ryan Bingham’s Bootleg Series In anticipation for the August 31 release of Academy Award-winning Ryan Bingham’s read more...
Texas Reviews
Junky Star
(Lost Highway) Marc Ford exposed me to Ryan read more...
Cities of Flesh and The Dead
(Elixir Press) “And to celebrate loss in that city of flesh and the dead…” Born in Birmingham, read more...
We Walk This Road
(Warner Brothers) Pedal steel phenomenon Robert Randolph who began playing in churches years ago has released his third read more...
See You On the Moon
(Fantasy Records) Texas born,
Gnawbone
(willscottmusic.com) You ever just fall in love with an artist’s music the very first time you heard them play? read more...
Crazy Heart
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (New West) Well, I haven’t seen the movie yet but after listening to read more...
Day Out of Days: Stories
(Knopf) Mystery And Manners' Honorary Southern Artist
Folk Country/Waylon Sings Ol' Harlan
(Collector's Choice Music) Folk Country counted as Waylon Jennings’ debut RCA release. RCA wanted to lure the read more...
A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkment (There is no C)
(Bordello Records) Ray Wylie Hubbard is an Oklahoma native who later moved to Texas and fell in with the likes of Waylon read more...
West Cross Timbers
Singer and fiddler Amanda Shires is a long time alumnus on the Texas music scene. I say ‘long time’ because she started read more...
Texas ArticlesRock 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...
Notes On State Of Poetry: Part Four
NOTES ON THE STATE OF POETRY: Part Four by Diann Blakely "Boom" by Lisa Eveleigh, Biloxi, MS Detour: After weeks--no, months- of sitting shiva in front of CNN as BP threatens to wreak greater ruinage on the South, read more...
The GRITZ Stone Ground & Southern Compilation Home Page
Welcome to the official information page for the GRITZ Stone Ground and Southern Music Compilation Series. We hope you will enjoy these free downloads, visit the band websites and order their albums. Please be sure to give us your feedback. We want to know what you think, as always. GRITZ has been the read more...
Soulful Sounds From A Delta Lady: The Shannon McNally Interview
Soulful Sounds From A Delta Lady The Shannon McNally Interview by James Calemine Born in New York,
Expanding The NCAA Tournament Would Further Erode An Already Suffering Sport
It’s Championship week in college basketball, and it’s a thrilling time to watch teams from smaller conferences earn their way into the Big Dance. While few believe that the regular season is what it used to be (especially when compared to college football), the hoops postseason is one of the top sporting events of the year.
Lance Ledbetter Interview: The Divine Grace of Dust To Digital
Lance Ledbetter Interview Dust To Digital’s Divine Grace By James Calemine The story of Dust To Digital is a divine one. In the late 1990s, Lance Ledbetter set out to discover rare recordings of gospel music. His journey led read more...
Super Bowl XLIV Will Be Special for the South
The world’s biggest sporting contest is upon us, and the Southern storylines could not be more prevalent. With the Saints and the Colts meeting in the Super Bowl, Swampland fans should be thoroughly entertained by the matchup of an exciting New Orleans team read more...
SEC, Big 12, & ACC Bowl Primer: Post-January 1 Edition
SEC 01/01 –.Auburn vs. Northwestern - Outback Bowl (11 am EST – ESPN) 01/01 – LSU vs. Penn State - Independence Bowl (1 pm EST – ABC) 01/01 – Florida vs. Cincinnati – Sugar Bowl (8:30pm EST – read more...
SEC, Big 12, & ACC Bowl Primer: Pre-January 1 Edition
SEC 12/27 – Kentucky vs. Clemson - Music City Bowl (8:30pm EST – ESPN) 12/28 – Georgia vs. Texas A&M read more...
A Real Christmas Letter: Writer Counts Blessings
The following is a real Christmas letter that I received last year. It was too late to publish it on Swampland so I saved it for this year because I found it not only inspirational but very funny. During 2009 I read it over and over in order to remember to count my blessings, to laugh often, and never to forget that the gift of the season is read more...
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