PRX - Pieces for Tagging: the South
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 00:02:26
The stories behind two giants of Southern Gothic literature.
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 00:29:00
- Added: Feb 12, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
- Purchases: 1
Texas slide guitar legend Johnny Winter became a star in the '60s and '70s, but his passion for the blues never diminished.
- Added: Jan 25, 2010
- Length: 00:45:30
Denise LaSalle is the reigning “Queen of Soul Blues,” and she’s not stepping down any time soon.
- Added: Jan 24, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
Tinsely Ellis created a high-intensity blues/rock style steeped in Southern soul.
- Added: Jan 23, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
Born in Drew, Mississippi, and now living in East St. Louis, Boo Boo Davis proudly says, “I am the blues.”
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
Louisiana-based singer/songwriter and slide guitar master Sonny Landreth has a sound like no other.
- Added: Jan 21, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
Harmonica legend Billy Boy Arnold is one of the creators of the Chicago blues sound and was a major influence on the British blues invasion of the ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
Bettye LaVette, the “Great Lady of Soul,” is so much more than a soul singer, melding all forms of American music.
- Added: Jan 18, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
This Alabama harmonica legend was one of the first white Americans who entered the blues in the 1960s.
- Added: Jan 16, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
A victim of polio, Delta blues singer Cedell Davis developed a unique style of playing slide guitar with a table knife.
- Added: Jan 16, 2010
- Length: 00:57:00
