http://www.yellowhammerpress.com An online hub for contemporary Southern art, Southern literature, and Southern culture. Mon, 31 May 2010 23:25:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2009/08/19/thursday-things-we-like-for-8-20/ http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2009/08/19/thursday-things-we-like-for-8-20/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:51:37 +0000 Ryan http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/?p=991 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 react to Anderson’s work.  The exhibit is on view through October 18th and features Michael Crespo, one of our very own.

• City Journal provides an excellent essay/encomium for the formidable Zora Neale Hurston. John McWhorter illuminates her unorthodox and challenging views on race and politics, and her unfortunate end in penury.  Well worth the read.

• Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South, the recent release from Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka is raw, quaking, and really damn good.  Go take a listen.

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• Some of our traffic comes from people searching for a cocktail called a “Yellowhammer,” and we’d love to know what one is.  After consulting not one but two bartending manuals (why I own those is a different story), the only information I could find is this, and I disapprove.  Being an Auburn man, I would like to see a signature cocktail not related to that unfortunate cheer.  Leave recipe suggestions in the comments, and any variation on The Alabama Slammer is grounds for immediate disqualification.

• My adoration for Bloodshot Records knows no bounds.  Though not Southern themselves (Chicago), much of the music their label puts out (they describe it as “Insurgent Country”) is Southern in origin.  From the indie rock of Missouri band Ha Ha Tonka to my favorites Trailer Bride, Bloodshot’s playlist is formidable indeed.  Here’s a particular favorite from Scott H. Biram.  And no, I’m pretty sure that mustache is not ironic.

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