12 Mississippi Bands You Should Listen to Now

By Hank Sforzini at 11:00 AM on March 27, 2013

William Faulkner said, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.” To understand American music, you also must first understand Mississippi.  read more

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Tom Franklin: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Review

By David Langness at 10:53 AM on February 7, 2011

The remarkable, painterly writer Susan Straight told me once that literary novelists are tiny rowboats next to the ocean liners of popular culture. “We’re rowing our leaky little skiffs like mad,” she said, “as we bail with a coffee can; and meanwhile there goes the giant Stephen King cruise ship or the James Patterson aircraft carrier, fully lit, the music playing, the passengers peering down at us from on high.” So Tom Franklin just got a bigger boat....  read more

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Listen Up: Souls, Slots and Other Strange Transactions in Tunica

By Rachael Maddux at 8:00 AM on July 12, 2010

Thirty-five miles or so north of where U.S. Highway 49 hits Highway 61—the crossroads where bluesman Robert Johnson allegedly bartered his soul off to the devil—sits a cluster of casinos, just three among many splashed out on the eastern banks of the Mississippi River, where on Friday night I watched an innumerable amount of perhaps even stranger transactions taking place...  read more

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The Booky Man: How I didn’t meet Eudora Welty

By Charles McNair at 10:57 AM on July 6, 2010

I once nearly met Eudora Welty, the greatest writer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize and be a member of The Junior League of Jackson, Mississippi....  read more

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Starkville, Miss. to re-issue pardon for Johnny Cash

By Rebecca Bowen at 4:00 PM on October 15, 2008

Has Johnny Cash’s spirit rested easier since...  read more

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B.B. King Museum to open this Saturday

By Ashley Melzer at 3:03 PM on September 11, 2008

BB King may feel like a million when his baby calls his name, but he’ll surely feel like 14 million, when The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center opens this Saturday, Sept. 13 in Indianola, Miss....  read more

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