Artist Repertoire Index
This list represents the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982. Bailey, Golden (1976) The Buck The Dog John Henry Sally Got the...
Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...once, like a man under bad claws, and like just blood could weigh a ton he walked with it on his back to a better light. Didn't get no further...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
Southern Spaces invites essays, photo essays, video productions, and digital projects which explore the relationships between social justice and real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their...
Besieged Terrain
...become the Robinson Forest, with more to follow in the 1820s. Their small homesteads didn't greatly alter the woods. Between 1880 and 1890 the first wave of large scale logging...
Runaway
...alone. I made it To Fairfield Street before the headlights of Daddy's pickup caught me In mid-blur. But I left my lover better: I knifed a tire before I went...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...is barely decipherable, his stories are full of crude reference to whores and excrement, and his disdain for his betters is clearly his main objective. In the opening conversation of...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off." "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...week after I bought it, while it traveled between Herman Wallecki & Sons of Los Angeles and southern Illinois, I dreamed of a guitar so old it had weathered gray...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...not safe. So we're the first to agree that it needed to be built. Generally speaking, I think, it will be better as far as commuting for traffic, but the...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and culturally diverse, and geographically vast territories into some facsimile of that model. A better approach is to aim for "deep time, cross-cultural, environmental histories of places—and after a sufficient...