Recently added articles from Southern Cultures:
Front porch.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Southern music is special. Everybody says so. The South is the home of blues, jazz, Cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, country, spirituals, gospel, and rock. A few other musical traditions that originated elsewhere--fife and drum music and shape-note singing come ...
The devil and his blues: James "Son Ford" Thomas.(Excerpt)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INTRODUCTION Leland was my gateway to the world of Mississippi Delta blues. It was here during the summer of 1968 that I first met James "Son Ford" Thomas, a gifted musician, storyteller, and sculptor. We became friends, and our lives remained ...
Southern jazz musicians.(Top Ten)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Selecting the top ten southern jazz musicians proved to be a more difficult task than I expected. Some of the choices are obvious, others perhaps less so. Had I used other criteria, some selections might well have been different. But when I chose to base ...
"When I say get it": a brief history of the boogie.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... <Pre>One night I was laying down.I heard mama and papa talking.I heard papa tell mamato let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in hive,and it's got to come out.--John Lee Hooker, "Boogie Chillen" We love to boogie on a Saturday night.--T. Rex, ...
Blues power in the Tuscarora homeland: the music of Pura Fe.(Pura Fe Crescioni)
Sep 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] his late April 2007 day marked the nicest that New Yorkers had yet experienced in the year. Pura Fe and her accompanist, Danny Godinez, were rehearsing on a bench in Central Park, reveling in the deep luster of the Sunday afternoon sky. Anyone from Seattle ...