Piglett – LA, TN

Piglett – LA, TN

And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began. -- Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again The large marble ball was centered delicately atop the courthouse spire for sixty...

Wormbag – Ooo Baby Baby

Wormbag – Ooo Baby Baby

This feature first appeared in 2014. And I am going to keep reprinting it until someone recognizes the genius of Wormbag. --- I have seen post-grunge alt-folk country dream pop future and its name is Wormbag. Wormbag slammed into the Portland music scene in 2012. The...

Tyrone from Mississippi

Tyrone from Mississippi

There are two types of men in this world: those who wear a shirt pretty much all the time, and those who hardly ever wear a shirt. Tyrone lived within the latter category. Tyrone was from Mississippi and he was the Genuine Article. He had a flattop, close on the...

Mance Lipscomb – Farmer and Songster

Mance Lipscomb – Farmer and Songster

I worked so hard in my lifetime, look like I dreams about it now. And I wake up in the morning, thinking I got to go to the field.-- Mance Lipscomb, I Say Me for a Parable I. The CottonThe southern extremity of Brazos County, Texas is covered by a broad expanse of...

Furry Lewis – Judge Harsh Blues

Furry Lewis – Judge Harsh Blues

The Mississippi Delta is a great wedge of alluvial floodplain — the dirt that’s laid down when a river comes out of its banks — that begins just below Memphis, reaches 90 miles across at its widest, then tips out at Vicksburg where the Yazoo River joins the...

Stories Hidden in a Baseball Box Score

Stories Hidden in a Baseball Box Score

I never knew my father’s father. He was a lineman for the county, and got himself fried long before I arrived. No one wanted to talk about him. I know him best through a paper bag full of newspaper clippings that he cut from the Nashville Tennessean. He was a baseball...

New Riders of the Purple Sage – Dead Flowers (Live)

New Riders of the Purple Sage – Dead Flowers (Live)

The marriage of rock and country looks like a good idea when the wedding invitation arrives in the US Mail. The patriarch of each family enters the ceremony bearing calloused hands, a bottle of whiskey tucked into the back pocket of his overalls, and tales of plowing...

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