By James Calemine I submit for your inspection "Elizabeth Josephine's Linguine & Cream Sauce with a Nod & a Wink to Steve Cropper" recipe. Last night here on St. Simons Island, Elizabeth Josephine prepared a Steve Cropper recipe for kicks. Of course, Cropper...
The band Brute consisted of Athens, Georgia, songwriter Vic Chesnutt recording his material with Widespread Panic serving as his back-up band. The recording session transpired the previous year at John Keane’s Athens studio, but Capricorn Records released Nine High a Pallet in 1995.
By James Calemine (This interview was conducted in 2011 and published on Swampland.com) From wonder into wonder existence opens. --Lao Tzu Grayson Capps was driving somewhere on Alabama's Gulf Coast when I called him last Thursday. The following day, he began to tour...
By James Calemine (Originally printed on Swampland.com) October 2007 As a writer, I'm still not comfortable with this BLOG thing--write it once and never touch it again...but considering my time constraints, it's a forced march...so here goes... Marc Ford was playing...
By James Calemine The Dickinson Brothers pay homage to their Hill Country brethren and Memphis musical kin on Electric Blue Watermelon. The album was produced by their father Jim Dickinson. Luther and Cody rise to the occasion on their strongest studio release since...
By James Calemine These days Tom T. Hall lays relatively low. Known as a top-drawer songwriter, author and storyteller, Hall's 2007 release Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. finds the Kentuckian singing about coal mines, displaced families and dead soldiers....
By James Calemine We revisit this decade old Never Ending Soul Food Dispatch... James Calemine's "Never Ending Soul Food Tour" includes documented visits to barbecue joints, catfish dens, chicken shacks and any establishment serving memorable vittles. Old Clinton...
By James Calemine James Calemine’s “Never Ending Soul Food Tour” includes documented visits to barbecue joints, catfish dens, chicken shacks and any establishment serving memorable vittles. “I’m goin’ back to Savannah/Sign my initial down The men all like me/And the...
By James Calemine Avos contains high-grade musicianship... James Elkington, a London native, and Nathan Salsburg from Louisville, Kentucky, met in New York City years ago. Elkington served as bandleader for The Zincs, member of The Horse’s Ha and guitar player in...
For over three decades, songwriter Tom Waits appeared in various Jim Jarmusch films. Most recently, Jarmusch cast Waits in his 2019 zombie movie The Dead Don’t Die. Waits also acted in the Jarmusch film Down By Law, Mystery Train and Coffee & Cigarettes. Waits...