Somewhere in Hawkins County, Tennessee, the Down Home General Store was a rural business that, if it were in Mississippi, would be featured in a William Faulkner novel. The place most likely thrived in its day. It's hard to tell how long it has been abandoned. The...
“Where was that, Where'd I go Never been there before But it was beautiful I needed it, it opened the door…” “A Big Sunshine” –Billy Bob Thornton/J.D. Andrew Tonight's show in Liverpool, England, at the Cavern Club, counts as one of the final dates on Billy Bob...
"In a sea of steel I see a golden glow Screaming the message anyone could know Like a walking translation on a street of lies Singing this scrapyard lullaby..." --Chris Whitley A quick junkyard dispatch… We did not plan to visit the School Bus Graveyard in Alto,...
I discovered a printed copy of Hunter S. Thompson's last article--"Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray"--yesterday. I printed Thompson's ESPN article the day it was published on February 16, 2005. Four days later, Thompson committed suicide in his Woody Creek, Colorado,...
This two thousand seat amphitheater thrived for years. Built in 1972, this place served as a popular location for musical theater. However, due to lack of funding this cultural space was permanently closed in 2005. Hurricanes demolished the stage beyond repair through...
These two Georgia gigs preserve the group’s brilliance in front of their home state audience. Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival ushered the Allman Brothers Band into their golden era.
“Authorities and experts will pick you from the dust They’ll hug you while they piss on you to wash off the mistrust Truth in advertising is as real as unicorns But you’ll buy half a dozen even if they have two horns.” --"Darker Than You Think" Thornton/Andrew Few...
“There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone.” –Judge Holden Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West ranks as one of Cormac McCarthy's most violent, savage and philosophical novels. This story takes place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s....
By James Calemine Jim Jarmusch’s 1996 film, Dead Man, ranks as one of his best. Johnny Depp plays an accountant named William Blake who departs from Cleveland to the nineteenth-century Wild West town of Machine for a job. This counts as Robert Mitchum’s final film....
"I read every word he ever wrote." --Bob Dylan Mississippi writer Larry Brown published nine books when he was alive. Big Bad Love, his second collection of short stories, ranks as soulful fiction. Other essential Brown books include Facing The Music, Dirty...