Evening Read for Sunday Night

What’s Haunting Justin Townes Earle? by Jonathan Miles (Garden & Gun)

That [living in New York City] doesn’t mean he’s turned his back on the South. Clear evidence for that can be heard in every song on his third full-length album, Harlem River Blues, on the Bloodshot Records label. The title track’s geographic reference notwithstanding, Harlem River Blues is an unabashed sonic tribute to the South. Fro

m a Hank Snow– and Hank Williams–infused rockabilly romp (“Move Over Mama”) to a chicka-chicka train song pulling loads of Jimmie Rodgers influence (“Workin’ for the MTA”) to the Memphis guitar licks that go skittering through “Slippin’ and Slidin’” to the down-home gospel choir and Hammond B-3 organ swirls backing him on the irrepressible title track, Harlem River Blues is a thirty-one-minute road trip through the South’s musical landscape.

Diffusion of technological products in the US by Nicholas Nova (Pasta & Vinegar)

For a better look you will have to click on the link above. 😉

The People Who Mattered in 2010 (The Onion)

Barack Obama, the first black president, proved to millions this year that he is either trying his best to lead the nation during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, or he is the modern-day incarnation of Adolph Hitler. One of the two.