Jay Moye, Author at Salvation South

FOURTH OF JULY VACATION WEEK
To tide you over till our next weekly edition on July 13, we bring back four pieces from the last three years—worthy perspectives on what it means to be an American.

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Jay Moye

Blue Country Mystic

How Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor moved to North Carolina from California and found his voice in the South.

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Old Fort’s New Start

How a diverse crew of community-minded visionaries is betting on outdoor recreation to blaze trails to a more inclusive future for a sleepy Western North Carolina town.

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In this centennial year of the North Carolina banjo legend’s birth, bluegrass wizard Tony Trischka extols his Earlness with a masterful tribute.

In 2015, novelist Jonathan Odell, a Mississippi native, shared the stage with a legend of Southern literature, Pat Conroy, at Georgia’s Decatur Book Festival. In this lovely remembrance, he recalls how Conroy treated his fans like family.

How can a music festival transform a city? The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville is bringing the community together in ways folks never dreamed of only a few years ago. This is the second in a three-part series exploring how Big Ears is creating little miracles in Tennessee.

Shelley Johansson shares the story of how sewing has sustained the women of her family for almost a century — from bandages during World War II to masks for the current pandemic.

From Magic City, a lyric cry of solidarity against shame and silence.

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After her daughter was caught in the crossfire of a shootout, Jacqueline Allen Trimble penned a poem that asks: how do we sing when every note sounds like a gunshot?

FOURTH OF JULY VACATION WEEK
To tide you over till our next weekly edition on July 13, we bring back four pieces from the last three years—worthy perspectives on what it means to be an American.

Jay Moye

Blue Country Mystic

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Old Fort’s New Start

By Jay Moye /

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FOURTH OF JULY VACATION WEEK To tide you over till our next weekly edition on July 13, we bring back four pieces from the last three years—worthy perspectives on what it means to be an American.

Jay Moye

Blue Country Mystic

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Old Fort’s New Start

By Jay Moye /

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FOURTH OF JULY VACATION WEEK
To tide you over till our next weekly edition on July 13, we bring back four pieces from the last three years—worthy perspectives on what it means to be an American.