Contributor Kelley Libby visits a shape note sing event in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Sometimes this style of singing is referred to as Sacred Harp. That’s because there’s an old tune book called The Sacred Harp, and most shape no
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he sings, it’s like he’s stepping right off of Beale Street in Memphis. This is his story.
I believe that okra symbolizes theever-evolving definition of the South. It is Southern to the core, but as anon-native plant, okra had to becomeSouthern. In my search for an answer to the question, "What isSouthern?" I talk to my grandmoth