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Cormac McCarthy Sells First Film Script Titled The Counselor
Cormac McCarthy Sells First Script Writer
Happy Holidays From Swampland 2011
Happy Holidays From Swampland "Never be impatient with the ones who love you, It might be read more...
Bloodkin's Exile On Lumpkin Street: Soul Survivors
Bloodkin's Exile On Lumpkin Street: Soul Survivors By James Calemine
Robert Johnson: Stones In My Passway
Robert Johnson: The Devil Is In The Details The
Lera Lynn Headlines Jacksonville's Natural Life Music Festival
Lera Lynn Headlines Natural Life Music Festival November 20 Athens, Georgia, musician Lera Lynn will read more...
A Birthday Tribute To Sam Shepard
A Birthday Tribute To Sam Shepard Today is the 68th birthday of Sam Shepard. A
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas
Some Girls Live In Texas A never-before-seen Rolling Stones concert, filmed live in Ft. Worth, titled read more...
This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel On 45RPM 1957-1982
This May Be My Last Time Singing Tompkins Square's latest release is an amazing 3-CD set titled This May Be My Last Time read more...
The Rum Diary On Silver Screens October 28
The Rum Diary In Theaters Oct 28 Bruce Robinson directed a film based on
Swampland's Daily Duo of Reviews For 8/1/11: Josh T. Pearson and Damon Fowler
Monday's pair of reviews come from a couple of releases from earlier this year. Texan Josh T. Pearson's initial band, Lift to read more...
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Dirt Floor
(Messenger Records) Chris read more...
Upon Waking
(Self-Released) I met Elijah Ford a few years ago when he was 18 during a tour with his father
Teatro
(Island) Produced by Daniel Lanois,
Old Mad Joy
(Vanguard) Old Mad Joy counts as the 10th studio album by the Austin, Texas, band The Gourds. Recorded at
Motel Chronicles
(City Lights Books) Published in 1982,
Live In Japan
(Omnivore Recordings) Omnivore Recordings just released Leon read more...
This May Be My Last Time Singing
(Tompkins Square) Tompkins Square's latest release is an amazing 3-CD set titled This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw read more...
Live In The Living Room
(Smith Entertainment) Texan Rodney Parker and his band 50 Peso Reward just released Live In the Living Room. This read more...
Hard Dollar
(Blue Corn Music) The Hadden Sayers story represents the mean life struggling artists endure such as bad deals, neglect and read more...
The Chitlin' Circut And The Road To Rock 'N' Roll
(W.W. Norton & Company) Every few decades a book like The Chitlin' Circut And The Road To Rock 'N' Roll comes read more...
Texas ArticlesThe 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...
Everyone Wants To Go to Heaven, But No One Wants To Die: The Marc Ford 'Fuzz Machine' Interview
Marc Ford’s Fuzz Machine Interview (Everyone Wants To Go To Heaven, But No One Wants To Die) By James Calemine “People are crazy Times are strange I’m locked in tight
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...
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...
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