This site is sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. The oldest prison rodeo in the nation takes place every Sunday in October. More than one blues musician, including the great Leadbelly , found inspiration at this Louisiana state penitentiary. The inmate band plays the rodeo. County Records County Records offers an extensive selection of bluegrass, country, and old-time music.
Site includes a newsletter, catalogue, online ordering, and collectibles gift shop.
Mississippi Delta fish fry, crawfish boil, and John Busby's world famous BBQ are also available. Ever since Pylon, the B-52's and REM, this college town has been at the heart of the alternative music scene. All I can say is that there's a sweetness here, a Southern sweetness, that makes sweet music. . . . If I had to tell somebody who had never been to the South, who had never heard of soul music, what it was, I'd just have to tell him that it's music from the heart, from the pulse, from the innermost feeling. And that's the South.