Resource Roundup #70
For the week of March 10th.
Happy Friday Folks,
It’s been the kind of week that leaves me feeling intense amounts of happiness, fulfillment, and love. I am so grateful for this life, and for all the artists who I call friends and collaborators. There is so much beauty out there in the world when you hold space for it— and so many people who will make you feel that love if you let them. I was listening to back to our final episode of season one of the podcast, where Vic and I got into a bit of Good Folk lore, and I found myself struck by this line of Vic’s: “You will look back in five years and you will be so excited to see how far you came. It will come. Whatever you are looking for, it will come. Maybe not in the way that you thought it would, but it will come and it will fulfill you in ways you never thought would happen.”
If someone had told me even then the life I would be living now, I would not have believed it. There is so much hope and comfort in that. There is so much joy to be found.
Speaking of the podcast, we published a new episode this week with Moore County based band The Violet Exploit. I love love love this band and this conversation. Catch up above, and stay tuned for the transcript next week (and just FYI, we’re now alternating episodes and transcripts, so you get the episode first and the transcript the following week).
When worlds collide… I am so very lucky to be working with the incredible Down Yonder Farm (uniting Hillsborough arts since 1978!) for a thesis-related project, and the equally incredible folk trio Palmyra will be playing a show there this spring alongside Dissimilar South— aka all the things I love in one place. Do not miss this. All the cool people will be there. I promise. Catch up on our podcast episode with Palmyra here, and then go get your tickets.
A very important read on the effects of lapsed Covid relief in Louisville.
Really enjoying the Rooted Substack, and especially this piece, “An Ode to the Southern Exile.”
I’ve spent most of this week working on a paper about climate apocalypse through a Southern Gothic lens, and I really loved this graphic series about the Kentucky mudslides by Austyn Gaffney and Martha Park in Bitter Southerner.