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Coming Fall 2012 from the University of Alabama Press: "Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazzman," by Frank "Doc" Adams and Burgin Mathews.
Tune in Saturday mornings, 9-10 central time, for "The Lost Child," an hour of downhome roots radio, hosted by Lady Muleskinner's Burgin Mathews. Streams online at Birmingham Mountain Radio; like it on Facebook.
"Thirty Birmingham Songs" featured in the February issue of Birmingham Magazine, with more at their music blog, Birmingham Box Set.
Another write-up of "Birmingham Songs" appears here, at Magic City Made.
"Thirty Birmingham Songs" receives a shout-out or two from Craig Legg's amazing blog on the History of Birmingham Poetry.
Read this review of two Lady Muleskinner publications, from One Minute Zine Reviews.
Updates to my Etsy store.
The Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2010 issue) reviews my "Brief History of the Boogie," published in Southern Cultures.
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Online Essays
- “HE WAS WHAT HE WAS”: ALABAMA JAZZ LEGEND “DOC” ADAMS ON THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF SUN RA
- Do That Birmingham Stomp: Twenty Birmingham Songs
- Greencup is Dead: A Eulogy
- Kirk Withrow, Cigar Box Guitarist
- Hank Penny’s Cowboy Swing
- The Last, Great, Real-Hillbilly DJ: An Interview with Darwin Lee Hill
- The Muppet Movie at Thirty
- Ernest Mostella
- Mack Vickery Live at the Alabama Women’s Prison
- W.C. Rice’s Miracle Cross Garden
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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Mack Vickery Live at the Alabama Women’s Prison
I tell you what. We’ve played for bigger audiences, but we’ve never played for any greater audience, I guarantee it. – Mack Vickery, Live! At the Alabama Women’s Prison Johnny Cash started it with Folsom Prison. Playing prisons had been … Continue reading
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W.C. Rice’s Miracle Cross Garden
In a world full of sinners, hypocrites, whoremongers, and thieves, William Carlton (W.C.) Rice saw himself as a modern-day Noah: ordained by God to prophesy destruction, to call the unsaved and endangered to salvation, and to build with his own … Continue reading
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Help Me Understand: Hank Williams as Luke the Drifter
Roy Orbison had a line in a song called “My Best Friend.” And in it was a line that says, “A diamond is a diamond and a stone is a stone. But man is part good and part bad.” You … Continue reading
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