Jeremy Ray Jewell
In Home Reading Service the literary and the illiterate rub shoulders, and we are given a vision of people tentatively emerging from behind walls.
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What makes these two albums stand apart? They are content to showcase the elemental power of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s voice.
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Jaun Cirerol has been accused of idealizing desperation. He disagrees. “I am well-anchored,” he responds.
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‘Lived experience’ doesn’t automatically confer moral or political insight, argues social critic Ben Burgis, but if we can make others laugh at that assumption we might be getting somewhere.
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This is a noble effort to reconcile with the Southern past — but are suggested changes in nomenclature — rather than statements of moral and political clarity — good enough?
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“Fate loves irony” opines the billionaire. Will we be in on the joke, or left out in the cold?
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Minari is about the triumph of folkways, both Ozark and Korean.
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Producer Ted Olson is on a mission in We Shall Be Reunited to do justice to the past; he imagines a beautiful alternative to the current ballyhooed origin story of country music.
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The Atlanta-based label Dust-to-Digital would like to show us the flip side of The Anthology of American Folk Music, but they don’t like what they hear.
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Cultural Commentary: Goodbye Columbus — Mexico City’s “La Joven de Amajac” and “Tlalli” Sculptures
Mexico City settles on Columbus’ replacement, but finds that removal and substitution is agonizing in society which hasn’t changed all that much.
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