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By Elmore Shanks Today’s guest Snake Nation contributor is fiction writer Mr. Elmore Shanks. –James Calemine …A Prelude… …This venomous

Today’s guest Snake Nation Press contributor is Griffin Bufkin, co-owner of St. Simons Island’s Southern Soul Barbeque. –James Calemine By

A decade ago my old friend Michael Gowen wrote this article for another publication I managed. Since Gowen will periodically

By James Calemine Produced by Memphis luminary Jim Dickinson, Amy LaVere‘s Anchors & Anvils, contends as a fine blueprint for

By James Calemine Take The High Road represented the Blind Boys of Alabama‘s first country-gospel album in their 70-year career. The five

  When I interviewed the High Priest of Memphis Mojo—Jim Dickinson—I asked him if he’d be interested in submitting his

By James Calemine The Americana/alt.country movement of the late 90s seemed like a promising thing.  After being caught in a

By James Calemine I wrote this review in 2012 when Sweeten The Distance was released, and right before I interviewed

By James Calemine On September 24, 2019, I made another trip to Quarantine Island with Michael Gowen. I’ve known Gowen

By James Calemine Cheyenne Marie Mize is a Louisville, Kentucky, native. She served as a member of the groups Arnett