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Songs of the Revolution: ‘Dixie’ (with new lyrics)

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March 10, 2013

Matthew at Active South (who is also SNN’s resident artist) recently recorded a video with him playing ‘Dixie’ on guitar and singing. He adds some additional lyrics to the original version in this video. At the beginning of the video he also mentions a song by the band Seven Nations called ‘Scotland the Brave/Dixie’ which...
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‘Way Down Yonder in New Orleans’

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June 21, 2012
‘Way Down Yonder in New Orleans’

Massachusetts-born rock n’ roller Freddy ‘Boom Boom’ Cannon made a career out of singing songs about the South including ‘Tallahassee Lassie,’ ‘Okefenokee’ and ‘Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy’. His biggest hit was ‘Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,’ which he took to number 3 in the charts in both the US and UK in 1959-60....
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Songs of the Revolution: ‘My feet down in Dixie’

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February 12, 2012

Southern musician Jesse Winchester wrote songs such as ‘Yankee Lady’ and ‘Nothing But a Breeze‘ (see videos below). He was born in Louisiana, grew up in northern Mississippi and Memphis, but had to leave the United States to avoid being pressed into the US military and sent off to war in Vietnam. He was eventually granted...
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The soundtrack of Southern revolution

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August 31, 2011

If the Southern revolution had a sound track what songs would be on it? This is the question recently posed to my Facebook friends. They helped in compiling the following list. Where possible, each song is linked so that you can make your own Southern revolution soundtrack! Do you know of any songs that...
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Why the anti-Lady Antebellum hatred?

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January 2, 2011
Why the anti-Lady Antebellum hatred?

I will be the first to admit that I don’t listen to modern country music. I just don’t like it. It all seems over-rehearsed, too poppy and I guess as a New Yorker might say “done already!” I honestly don’t know who is at the top of the country charts. I can’t tell one...
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