Jeremy Ray Jewell

Folk Music Review: Dueto Dos Rosas, Five Songs

August 2, 2019
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Dueto Dos Rosas’s tunes can be classified as rancheras or corridos, but their style has a very particular historical resonance.

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Book Review: “El Norte” — Recovering a Greater America at the Southern Border

June 24, 2019
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Rather than focusing on Mexicans in the United States, historian Carrie Gibson posits an expansive transnational history.

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Book Review: “Where the Crawdads Sing” — Are the Rural Poor Noble Savages?

March 5, 2019
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Delia Owens suggests that the only forward movement for her outsider-protagonist and “swamp trash” is to become curators of ecological/cultural museums in the very places where they once struggled for an independent life.

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Book Review: “The Burning House” — Diversity in Segregation

February 2, 2019
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Anders Walker’s The Burning House sheds fascinating light on a forgotten piece of intellectual history in the Jim Crow South.

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Country CD Review: Charley Crockett’s “Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza” — How Did We Get Here, Charley?

January 3, 2019
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The unmistakable flavor of R&B can be found throughout Charley Crockett’s work

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Folk CD Review: Mountain Man’s “Magic Ship” — There’s Magic in Them Thar Hills!

December 9, 2018
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When Vermont’s Mountain Man brings us its Appalachian vocal stylings the trio is venturing into the hollers of both the Green and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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CD Review: “Boosie Blues Cafe” — Rap Reaches Back to the Past

December 1, 2018
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How will others in the Southern hip-hop scene react to this embrace of tradition by a Southern rapper with his feet firmly in the Gangsta Rap arena?

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Folk CD Review: Lonnie Holley’s “MITH” — An Act of Restoration

November 13, 2018
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Lonnie Holley’s music on MITH  sounds like a choir of better angels whose multi-layered voice is hard on the outside and soft on the inside, like so much Alabama clay.

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