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Thursday Things We Like for 8.20: Anderson, Hurston, and Ha Ha Tonka

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 [...]

Thursday Things We Like for 7.9: Honky Tonks, Cocktails, and a Damn Fine Song

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 [...]