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Walking the way the wind blows
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The continuing confessions of a newborn redneck
The idiocy of the new, revisited
A quick query of the tea leaves
A Juvenile Delinquent & the Blues
One last design deconstruction
Garlic Cheese Grits (the recipe)
A brief note on the decline of Southern culture
The new economics of music criticism
The best festival deal of the year
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Three things I don't know (and one I'm certain of)
Three unrelated (I think) fragments
Chicken killing time in Kentucky
The guitar's pull: a cautionary tale
All right, then, let's design this thing
"Sing! Fear is a man's best friend!"
Another Top-Shelf Discovery: The Sojourners
A modest endorsement for Senator Obama
A top-shelf discovery: Hope Nunnery
A quick political reality check
A small victory for Dr. King's dream
Finally, after all these years...
Why is Amy Winehouse semi-famous?
Further studies in modern technology
Why not Senator Clinton? and other political digressions
Rissi Palmer and black country music
I Have a Problem with the Grammys
Questions, Answers, & Questions: A year-end playlist
A Thanksgiving meditation on place
In defense of Norman Mailer's ego
Several discoveries from the AMA
The quickest of silly questions
Cover versions and revisions (a contest, of sorts)
A more temperate contemplation of morality and art
That's right, I'm not from Texas
The unfairness of things (9): Dao Strom
Needle In The Hay: Elliott Smith
The unfairness of things (8): The Salty Dogs
Punk Planet: Requiem for a Heavyweight
Rules for Reasonables: A Draft Manifesto
Studying war and filing systems
Steve Earle and my sense of place
Torture (revised and extended)
The futility of the CD cabinet
An appreciation of the farm egg
A random list of influential live shows
Why albums matter: Chris Thile
Gretchen Wilson's "Pain Killer"
Thinking outside the big box and other re-entry notes
The Duhks have a new lead singer
Two more digital dilemmas: Who are we?
The unfairness of things (7): Sometymes Why
Why the Post Office matters to small publishers: a request for action
The unfairness of things (6): The banjo monologues
Iraq and the problem of not watching
The transition game: love and a 45
The decline of Dymo and other eccentricities
Prognostication and public humiliation
Swamptrash: An Homage to Harry Horse
The basketball diaries (a greater heresy)
Does SXSW still matter? (A minor heresy)
The unfairness of things, revived: Charlie Rich
The minority position (a series of digressions)
The new impermanence (slow return)
Who speaks to the common listener?
The digital dilemma (another tilt)
A second tilt with the new impermanence
So many choices, so few choices (SXSW)
A foolish Super Bowl prediction
The curious case of E.M. Washington (courtesy Chuck E. Weiss)
An interrogatory disgression on the new impermanence (appended)
The unfairness of things (5) Johnny Berry
The unfairness of things (4) Marlin Wallace
The unfairness of things (3) Rob McNurlin
The unfairness of things (2) Dead Moon
An initial attempt to redress the unfairness of things
A short salute to the record store
A little respect for Robert Christgau, please
Type and the impermanence of new things
On meeting Billy Faier and SXSW
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