Thursday Things We Like for 6.25: Trailer Bride, Dead Mules, and Juke Joints as Fine Art
Gregory Donovan’s “Is There a Dead Mule in It,” is a wonderful piece of poetry and an homage to Jerry Leath Mills’ now-famous essay Equine Gothic: The Dead Mule as Generic Signifier in Southern Literature of the Twentieth Century.Don’t let the academic title fool you — it’s a delightful analysis of Southern Lit and the preponderance of dead mules therein. Shake off the title and enjoy.
- Columbus, MS photographer Birney Imes has made a career out of capturing elements of life and vibrancy in the impoverished Mississippi countryside. Perhaps most famous are his series of Juke Joint photos. One of his pieces graced the cover of a Lucinda Williams record. My personal favorite is a photo called “Blume With Chicken,” but I can’t find it anywhere at the moment. Ah well.
- Trailer Bride, a Chapel Hill band whose mordant, serpentine hillbilly gothic sound has a firm place in my heart, hasn’t released a record since 2003, but lest we forget their exquisitely bleak portrayal of rurality, here’s a damn fine reminder:
Posted: by Ryan June 24th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
