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On the latest SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier, from Nashville by way of New Orleans. She started late as a musician, after a lifetime of drinking and drugs, and her songs reflect hard times leavened with moments of humor and hope.
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SouthBound celebrated its third year in 2020, and Tommy Tomlinson selected a handful of his favorite episodes from this past year.
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Roy Wood Jr. has spent a career telling jokes with sharp edges. He grew up in Birmingham and has spent more than 20 years doing stand-up, returning again to his experiences as a Black man and a Southerner. For the last five years he has also been a correspondent for “The Daily Show,” often coming back down South to poke at our contradictions and absurdities.
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Issac Bailey has had to jump a lot of hurdles.He grew up in a family marked by violence -- including the arrest of his brother for murder.He developed a…
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You can’t understand the South without trying to understand Charleston, South Carolina.Tourists know it for the pretty houses and five-star restaurants.…
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Anthony Hamilton, the Grammy-winning singer and songwriter from Charlotte, has spent his career working a fertile patch of rhythm and blues.Sometimes he…
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Fawn Weaver is the author of a best-selling book on happy marriages. Her husband is a movie exec. They were happy and comfortable in Los Angeles. But then…
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Eddie Glaude, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton, is the author of a new book called “Begin Again,” about the writer…
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SouthBound: Karen Cox on Confederate Statues, Plantation Neighborhoods, And Other Old South RemnantsThe links to the South’s Confederate past are beginning to come down – some by law, some by force. But this part of the country is still strewn with…
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Clint Smith grew up in New Orleans until his family had to relocate to Houston in Hurricane Katrina. He has grown up to become one of America’s most…