“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...
Music Review Posts
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness In The West
“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....
Jim Jarmusch’s Film Dead Man
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....
Larry Brown’s Big Bad Love
"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...
Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers
"So, you're an animal psychic?" --Don Johnston The 2005 Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers stands the test of time. The cast includes Bill Murray, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Frances Conroy, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy and Jeffrey Wright. In this comedy, Bill Murray...
Jesse Ed Davis: Red Dirt Boogie The Atco Recordings 1970-1972
Davis contributed to albums by Bob Dylan, Albert King, John Lennon, John Lee Hooker, Buffy Sainte Marie, Bert Jansch, Albert Collins, Ringo Starr, Arlo Guthrie, Mac Davis, Rod Stewart, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Lightning Hopkins, B.B. King, the Pointer Sisters, Jackson Browne, Captain Beefheart, Ry Cooder, Gene Clark and Leonard Cohen to name a few.
1966 Chevelle
The only staged photograph in this book--a fully restored and "hot rodded" 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle on a rutted dirt road next to a hay field on Sandy Creek Farm. I parked the car on that clay and gravel track from early morning until after sunset. The sky and lighting...
Ghostland America Nominated for 2023 Georgia Author of the Year in Specialty Book Category
Greetings Folks, I've been nominated for the 2023 Georgia Author of the Year in the Specialty Book category for Ghostland America. I'm humbled and flattered by the nomination. I'm in formidable company. No matter the outcome I'd like to thank the Georgia Writers...
Foreword to The Local Stranger by Daniel Hutchens
I first heard tell of James Calemine when my band was playing a little club in Valdosta, Georgia, back in the early 90s. Griffin Bufkin was behind the bar; he was the one who booked us to play, and he was the bartender that early evening. He served up the beers and...
Johnny Colt’s Postcards from the (Ed)ge
Johnny Colt doesn’t waste time. Colt ranks as a top-shelf bassist, businessman, photographer and graphic artist. He’s best known as the original Black Crowes bassist. Colt played in the Crowes from 1989-1997. Later, Colt played in the groups Asphalt Blaster, Brand...










