Gyrate: A Bragg Jam Recap
After Bragg Jam, I happened to come across an old episode of 99% Invisible called “Frozen Music.”…
Read MoreJared Wright came to Macon over a decade ago to attend Mercer University and has more or less stuck around since then. Since that time, he’s received a M.A. degree in history and has served as a historian, curator, archivist and writer for various musical organizations and museums, including the Otis Redding Foundation, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, and the Tubman Museum. He’s also played in a variety of local bands over the years, and he’s considered the world’s foremost expert on Bob Dylan karaoke.
After Bragg Jam, I happened to come across an old episode of 99% Invisible called “Frozen Music.”…
Read MoreAs I’ve intimated in this forum before, a meticulous, minute-by-minute plan for Bragg Jam is essentially worthless, but you do have to do some sort of planning or else you’ll be lost, doomed to wander through the whispered asides of history with the likes of Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Roanoke Colony…
Read MoreSomewhere on the wall of the kindergarten classroom of my mind there hangs a poster. It’s printed in garish primary colors, dinged by errant building blocks and its title is written in Comic Sans, the favored font of boat owners and party planning committees…
Read MoreJust across the street from the Macon-Bibb Convention and Visitors Bureau, I take a turn down an alley that splits Cherry and Poplar Streets to find myself at the foot of a small stream…
Read MoreThere’s a certain point in the Macon summertime that the heat takes a drastic turn upwards. Without even consulting a calendar, it’s obvious that July has arrived and with it, a special kind of scorching temperature…
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