My workplace has had a lot of excitement lately. Wendy Reed, whose office is right next door to mine, won an Emmy, and Dwight Cammeron, whose office is just across the hall, won a first place festival award. The festival award came from the Urban Suburban Film Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the documentary, “Not [Continue]
My wife and I recently attended the 5th annual North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic in Potts Camp, Mississippi. We’ve attended every one so far and it has become an annual tradition for us. The two-day festival features over 20 bands from the hill country of north Mississippi, an area with rich musical traditions and some [Continue]
The Southeastern Regional Emmy Awards were presented recently and I’m pleased to share that several of my friends won awards. Two of my colleagues at the University of Alabama, Wendy Reed and Roger Reid, won the Emmy for “Writer–Program (Non-News)” with the “Alabama in Space” episode of the Discovering Alabama series which is broadcast on [Continue]
Kenny Brown learned how to play guitar from Joe Callicott and R. L. Burnside. His guitar accompaniment was an important part of the sound of R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough popularized by Fat Possum Records a few years ago. Now that both Burnside and Kimbrough have passed on, Kenny Brown plays and records with [Continue]
