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This week in Salvation South, we introduce you to Jake Xerxes Fussell, whose music updates Southern songs from long ago.

Beloved newswoman Kay Powell tells us how her mama’s pimento cheese wound up being the subject of a sociology class in Colorado. (Recipe included.)

A special message to everyone who’s visiting us for the first time from Georgia Public Broadcasting.

Old Crow Medicine Show leader Ketch Secor shares his hopes about what the removal of the battle flag will mean for his children.

Some folks can’t cook the traditional Southern Christmas dinner. So one year, one of them tried spaghetti. Everyone loved it, including the cats.

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In his new collection, the Affrilachian Poets founder gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers and their families, aiming to uncover hidden truths inside Southern history.