by Charles Norman | Mar 2, 2021 | Music
Seth Martin and The Dish Boys – Please Be Good To Each Other My father’s father visited the Grand Ol’ Opry back when it was in the Ryman Auditorium, sat through the entire Saturday night performance without clapping or commenting, then turned to...
by Charles Norman | Jan 29, 2021 | Music
Piglett – LA, TN And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began. — Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again The large marble ball was centered delicately atop...
by Charles Norman | Dec 21, 2020 | Music
Wormbag – Ooo Baby Baby This feature first appeared in 2014. And I am going to keep reprinting it until someone recognizes the genius of Wormbag. — I have seen post-grunge alt-folk country dream pop future and its name is Wormbag. Wormbag slammed into the...
by Charles Norman | Nov 11, 2020 | Music
Mance Lipscomb – Farmer and Songster I worked so hard in my lifetime, look like I dreams about it now. And I wake up in the morning, thinking I got to go to the field.– Mance Lipscomb, I Say Me for a Parable I. The CottonThe southern extremity of Brazos...
by Charles Norman | Jul 30, 2020 | Music
Furry Lewis – Judge Harsh Blues The Mississippi Delta is a great wedge of alluvial floodplain — the dirt that’s laid down when a river comes out of its banks — that begins just below Memphis, reaches 90 miles across at its widest, then tips out at Vicksburg...
by Charles Norman | Mar 11, 2019 | Music
Captain Marvel, the latest expansion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU to those in the know), is exploding in a theater near you and I can’t wait for it to light up the screen of our local Studio Movie Grill. The traditional Friday dinner-and-a-movie date...
