...Anticipation for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight... I just re-watched Quentin Tarantino's read more...
James Franco’s Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God This morning I watched James read more...
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"Will all your money buy you forgiveness? Will it keep you from sickness?
A Modern Legacy of America's Finest Archivists A treasure trove of old, obscure American music exists out read more...
Happy Holidays From Swampland "Never be impatient with the ones who love you, It might be read more...
The Chitlin' Circut: And The Road To Rock 'N' Roll Memphis writer Preston Lauterbach's first book--The Chitlin Circut: read more...
Swampland's Gospel, Funk & Soul Collection It's arguable that one of America's finest contributions to read more...
Swampland Salutes Southern Women: Volume 1 Today we'd like to salute all the great southern female artists read more...
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Celebrates 10th Anniversary GRAMMY® ALBUM OF THE YEAR FOR 2001
(Sugar Hill Records) Long Line of Heartaches counts as Connie Smith's 53rd album, but her first since 1996. Produced read more...
(Sugar Hill Records) "Song Up In Her Head" is the title of the excellent debut album by singer, songwriter read more...
(Rural Rhythm Records) I’ve always been a fan of Michael Martin Murphey’s early work from the read more...
(Sci-Fidelity Records) Baby, They Told Us We Would Rise read more...
(Legacy) “I grew up dreamin’ of being a cowboy/ And loving the cowboy ways
(New West) Bekka Bramlett has a mystical effect on me. She always has, even as backing singer for Faith Hill, or dueting with read more...
(Legacy) The thing that sets this compilation apart from the plethora of others that are always being flooded into the read more...
Desperate Man Blues: Discovering The Roots of American Music The Story of Joe Bussard
Blues Sweet Blues Various Music Maker Artists Music Maker Series #91 & #92 By James Calemine
Song of America Various Artists 31 Tigers Records By James Calemine This 50-song, 3 CD read more...
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As March fades and the first quarter of 2012 comes to a close, Swampland has used this moment to look back on 2011 putting together our list of last year's best music releases from the South. Although we've named 25 records on our Top 25 Albums of 2011, each one serves as sort of a best in category as well. There were so many strong releases that we will attempt to read more...
My Year Of Scary Movies by Daniel Hutchens Part 6: SATAN IN THE 70s Thrills and chills have always been popular entertainment, and of course this series of essays about scary movies I’m writing skips back and forth across several decades––in fact by the time I’m done I’ll have viewed movies spanning nearly a read more...
My Year Of Scary Movies by Daniel Hutchens Part 5: Psycho (1960) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh “Mother! Oh God, Mother! Blood! read more...
MY YEAR OF SCARY MOVIES by Daniel Hutchens Part 4: My Trip To Meet Fritz “Iʼm just happy Iʼm still able to warp your young minds.” So the question is, why does a 46 year read more...
MY YEAR OF SCARY MOVIES by Daniel Hutchens Part 3: Nite Owl Theatre “Greetings, Good Groovers.” As a kid I would sometimes visit my older sister Sandi in the summertime. She lived in Athens, Ohio, and one of the perks of visiting her was that I was allowed to stay up on Friday nights and watch Ohioʼs read more...
MY YEAR OF SCARY MOVIES by Daniel Hutchens Part 2: Plan 9 From Outer Space(1958) Directed by Edward D. Wood Jr. Starring Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Vampira. “You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here.” Leonard Bernstein once said about read more...
MY YEAR OF SCARY MOVIES by Daniel Hutchens Part 1: Bats On My Birthday Cake When I turned six years old, my birthday cake was decorated with bats. Not bats of the baseball variety, but bats with wings. As in vampire bats, as in Dracula, as in scary movies, with which I had already become obsessed by the age of six. Hence six read more...
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...
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.