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One of our very own, Jane Allen Nodine, presents a new exhibit of her encaustic art  at the Myst Contemporary Gallery in Spartanburg, SC.  The exhibit opens today (1.21) and runs through February 16.  If you’re in the area, show some support!

The Appalachian Photographers Project features 18 photographers from the Southern Appalachian states.  Their work [...]

George Singleton is man, myth, legend, and possibly the greatest all-around son-of-a-bitch the South has ever produced.  I’ve written briefly about his recent collection The Half Mammals of Dixie and recently finished his delirious novel Work Shirts for Mad Men. The Southeast Review has a collection of anecdotes about Singleton in their collection The Cult [...]

“Dangerous” is not how one is likely to describe The Queen Family: Appalachian Tradition and Back Porch Music.  The short documentary (< 30 minutes) chronicles a rural North Carolina family whose roots in mountain music reach centuries into the past, and even across the Atlantic.  92 year-old Mary Jane Queen, the charmingly lucid matriarch of [...]

For fans of Old Time and Appalachian music, Smithsonian Folkways’ Backroads to Cold Mountain is a must have.  Compiled by musicologist John Cohen, it’s a great collection of mountain music from the early days of audio recording.  Less intimidating than the sprawling Goodbye, Babylon or the Anthology of American Folk Music, it’s a great primer [...]

Walter Inglis Anderson, the reclusive and troubled artist from Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, is certainly not as famous as he deserves to be.  Though the museum that bears his name makes no mention of the exhibit on their site, Coastal Artists Reflect on Walter Inglis Anderson asks artists from the coastal South to reflect upon and [...]

Atlanta’s Southern Proper boasts a line of Southern gentleman’s accessories that is fresh, classic, and by all means, proper. Combining traditional fashion with new Southern chic, their sophisticated yet whimsical products capitalize on the comically over-characterized Southern gentleman. Southern Proper’s bow ties (”Beaus”) and other elements of haberdashery are adorned with patterns ranging from live [...]

Many a Southern school child grew up reading Kathryn Tucker Windham’s 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Though she may be well known for this charming staple of Southern folklore, her life and literary range reach far beyond one seminal work.  A journalist, folklorist, and utterly enthralling storyteller with a seemingly endless store of knowledge of [...]

The Backroads of American Music is, perhaps like its moniker indicates, an odd and rough assemblage of rural and undiscovered music throughout the American countryside.  Of particular note is their recent obituary for Charlie Nelson, a piano man whose life in the Mississippi woods is a fascinating story and a hell of a trip through [...]