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Ray Wylie Hubbard's Journey Down Purgatory Road — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERThe musical and spiritual meanderings of acclaimed Texas singer-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard.
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Orange is the New Peach — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERCitrus farming is expanding into Georgia because of climate change, but it may also help slow global warming.
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Marion Brown’s Musical Portrait of Georgia — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERSaxophonist Marion Brown’s legacy lives on 50 years after the release of “Afternoon of a Georgia Faun.”
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Waffle House Vistas — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERWaffle House does not care how much you are worth, what you look like, where you are from, what your political beliefs are, or where you’ve been so long as you respect the unwritten rules of Waffle House: Be kind, be respectful, and don't overstay when others are waiting for a table.
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The Folklore Project — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERA Collection of Personal Essays from the American South
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The Wounds That Do Not Heal — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERRachel Lord Elizondo and Natasha Trethewey both lost their mothers to partner violence in Georgia.
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Pylon’s Passage to Permanence — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERGordon Lamb writes about the new “Pylon Box” vinyl set and the band’s role in shaping the Athens music scene.
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Power Music, Electric Revival: Education of ‘Stankonia’ in Three Parts — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERHip-hop scholar Joycelyn Wilson discusses OutKast’s “Stankonia” two decades after its release.
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Ten Train Songs That Tell the Story of the South — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERCould you tell the story of the South in 10 songs about trains? We asked a fellow who studies Southern railroads for a living.
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I Feel Most Southern in the Hip-Hop of my Adolescence — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERPoet Joy Priest gives readers a glimpse into her past as she recounts the hip-hop music that shaped her Southern experience.
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Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERBobbie Gentry’s song lyrics gave novelist Mesha Maren inspiration as a writer and a Southern working-class woman.
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The House That Carving Built — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERA profile of the Brasstown Carvers of the John C. Campbell Folk School in western North Carolina.
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In Love's Shadow — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERIn mid-August 1978, one year after Elvis died, photographer Ralph Burns traveled from his home in Asheville, North Carolina to Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. For the next nearly 30 years, Burns returned to take photographs and build an unlikely community among the annual pilgrims.
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The Ark at the End of the World — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERA visit to a Kentucky replica of Noah's Ark reveals as much about politics as it does about a faith built around certainty.
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Austin Can't Be Stopped — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERPeople can mourn a long-lost “golden age” or embrace that change is part of what makes any place weird and wonderful.
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A Dirty South Kind of Healing — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
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The Way of John Lewis — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
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Five Questions for Liz Brasher — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERWe talk to a Memphis songwriter who is a genuine product of the emerging South.