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FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW: MACON MADE pg. 28

NO ENCORE:

DREW FORTUNE’S WEIRD & WILD ROCK N’ ROLL BIBLE pg. 16

NEW FEATURE: THE X FILE:

ALT ROCK NOT ALT-FACTS pg. 36

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• His favorite volunteer activity is spending time and setting a positive example for Bibb County elementary school students.

Cameron encourages them to never settle for less than their best.

• Cameron has been selected twice as the Macon Touchdown Club’s OrthoGeorgia Lineman of the Week and has recorded 50 tackles, 6 TFL, and 1 fumble recovery.

• Cameron aspires to play at the collegiate level and with his favorite subject being math, he plans to major in engineering or business.

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RUNNING COMMENTARY The Creek’s 3rd anniversary on July 8th came and went with very little fanfare. If any of you have been curious as to why, well, the answer is simple…

We busy.

Seriously, it’s non-stop down here, and when I consider everything we’ve managed to accomplish in such a short amount of time, I get breathless just thinking about it-- and excited about all the new things we’re working on for the future. Of course, one of the new aspects that most of you are already familiar with is 100.5 The X. The response we’ve gotten from Central Georgia in regards to “Macon’s Alternative” has been fantastically and spectacularly amazing, and in some respects, hilarious. On several occasions, I’ve walked into local businesses and been pleasantly surprised to hear the X playing overhead. Too cool, right?

I was fortunate enough to get involved with 100.9 The Creek at the very beginning with my rockabilly show, Honky Tonk Hell, and it’s evolved from there. Doing that show led to my Americana Madness 8pm-Midnight slot during the weeknights. Both have been a dream come true-and I mean that. To get to hang out and talk about alt-country, old rock n’ roll, and rhythm & blues? To enjoy the forum and freedom to explore those artists and songs and interact with folks all over the world who’s enthusiasm mirrors mine? And none of that would’ve been possible without Tina Dickson and the crew down at Ingleside Village Pizza. IVP has been the sponsor of HTH since before the show even aired. Tina recently joined me to record that “anniversary” show, and if you missed it the first time, it’ll be back around on Tuesday, August 6th at 7pm on 100.9 The Creek. Tina just celebrated her 27th year in business. You don’t get that far down the proverbial road without a lot of hard work, and you’d best believe that I believe when I proclaim that IVP has the “Greatest Pizza In The Land!”

And while we’re on the subject of belief, I’ll take the opportunity to thank all of you out there for continuing to believe in this fine publication and for tuning into the Creek and the X. Thank you for supporting the wonderful businesses that advertise on the air and between these pages.

I’ve never taken that support for granted. Even when I’ve managed to piss some of you off, you’ve reached out and shared instead of turning your back. Again, for that I thank you.

It ain’t always perfect, but I love the hustle. Y'all keep lookin’ and listenin’!

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OUR TEAM Aaron Irons Managing Editor

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WHAT'S INSIDE

_______________________ 09 11 Events _______________________ 15 Kirk West's 50,000 Shades of Gray _______________________ 16 No Encore: Drew Fortune’s Weird & Wild

Rock n’ Roll Bible _______________________ 21 Feels Like Local _______________________ 22 Eat This _______________________ 23 House Talks _______________________ 24 A Conversation with Caroline Spence _______________________ 28 Film Festival Preview: Macon Made _______________________ 31 The Dish _______________________ 35 Do This _______________________ 35 Bo Talks _______________________ 36 The X File: Alt Rock Not Alt-Facts _______________________ 38 The Creek’s Show Review & Americana Singles Chart _______________________ 43 Live & Local: Calendar _______________________ 45 Open Jams & Karaoke _______________________ August 2-August 14, 2019 // Volume 18, Issue #417

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STRANGER THINGS TRIVIA 8pm Friday, August 2 Reboot Retrocade & Bar 566 Cherry Street, Macon Time to finish that third season or binge-watch the entire Stranger Things series! Free to play and enjoy specials all night as part of Reboot’s First Friday Celebration!

FIRST FRIDAY FUN ZONE FREE! 5:30pm Friday, August 2 Third Street Park Macon Join NewTown Macon for the First Friday Fun Zone at the corner of Cherry & Third in Downtown Macon! Lawn games will be set up for the whole family. continued on page 10

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NEW IN CENTRAL GEORGIA Z BEANS ROAST YOUR OWN BLEND 9am-5pm Saturday, August 3 Z Beans Roasting Facility- 450D 3rd Street, Macon Create your own perfect blend using Z Beans’ natural, washed, and honey processed coffee beans! The Z Beans crew will guide you through the roasting process. They can grind your roasted beans or even put them in Z Cups- Keurig compatible cups at no extra cost! Large groups are encouraged as the RYOB event is a flat $30 fee. Come roast your own coffee and leave with a greater understanding of the process-- and 2lbs of freshly roasted beans! Visit Z Beans on Facebook for ticket information.

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MOVIE: THE BREAKFAST CLUB 7pm Saturday August 3 Grand Opera House- 651 Mulberry Street, Macon Arguably the greatest film depicting teen angst, John Hughes’ classic follows the relationships and tribulations of a “Brain, an Athlete, a Basketcase, a Princess, and a Criminal” as they navigate Saturday Detention! Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the box office or online at thegrandmacon.com.

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Featuring the Mahalo Band, Barry Darnell & the Mobile Slim Band, Low Frequency Messiah, and Southbound Mojo!

FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY 6pm Friday, August 9 Historic Downtown Perry Grab your family and friends and head to Downtown Perry for Food Truck Friday! A Kids Zone will be available with bounce houses and face painting will be available! Live music from Jettison Blue begins at 7pm! Leashed dogs are allowed, no outside coolers or alcohol allowed. Bag chairs are allowed and encouraged!

CHILDREN’S POTTERY FREE! 3pm Saturday, August 10 Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park- 1207 Emery Hwy, Macon Visit the park and learn how to make pottery using the American Indian coil method! Children may create their own clay pot to take home.

PAW PATROL LIVE: SENSORY FRIENDLY 12pm Sunday, August 11 Macon Coliseum- 200 Coliseum Dr, Macon It's the day of the Great Adventure Bay Race between Adventure Bay’s Mayor Goodway and Foggy Bottom’s Mayor Humdinger, but Mayor Goodway is nowhere to be found. PAW Patrol to the rescue! This special sensory adapted show includes a sensory cue overview of the entire show, pre-show tours for the child to acclimate to the venue, a calming, quiet room available prior to and during the performance, along with manipulatives and ear plugs.

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MACON FILM GUILD PRESENTS: THE SOUVENIR 2pm, 5pm, 7:30pm Sunday, August 11 The Douglass Theatre- 355 MLK JR Blvd, Macon In the 1980s a shy London film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) navigates a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man, defying her mother (played by Byrne’s real-life mom, Tilda Swinton) as she slips deeper into the intense relationship. There will be a discussion immediately following the 2pm show. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the box office or at douglasstheatre.org

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50,000 SHADES OF GRAY LOWELL GEORGE 6.15.79 Thanks, I’ll Eat It Here Tour Park West, Chicago

I was friends with Lowell after having been around Little Feat for a while prior to their breakup in ’78. Lowell was touring in support of his first solo album and it was a good one. Quite different from the Feat. I spent a good bit of time with him between shows and when he offered me a ‘bump’ of blow, I said, “No, thanks.” I was three years clean at the time, and I really didn’t want to seem uncool back in the day… And sayin’ no to a friend and hero definitely wasn’t ‘cool’... But ‘no’ was what I said. Two weeks later, Lowell George died of a heart attack.

The Fat Man in the Bathtub took his last bump after a show in Washington DC.

Kirk West is a photographer, archivist, and the host of Into The Mystic Wednesday nights at 7pm on 100.9 The Creek. He’s published two books of his work, Les Brers- Kirk West’s Photographic Journey with The Brothers, and The Blues in Black and White— a collection documenting his time on the Chicago Blues scene in the 1970s and 1980s. Kirk and his wife, Kirsten, own and operate Gallery West at 447 Third Street in Macon. Visit kirkwestphotography.com and Gallery West to view and purchase prints and canvases of the greatest artists in blues, country, rock n’ roll, and soul.

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NO ENCORE:

Drew Fortune’s Weird & Wild Rock n’ Roll Bible

BY BO WALKER

Real talk, I have been looking forward to this book for a long time. Drew Fortune is a friend of a friend, who’s writing I have been following since discovering his many hilarious and in-depth interviews with Mickey Melchiondo, aka Dean Ween. As a fair-weather musician and performer, this book appealed to me not just as a writer, but as someone thirsting for an unusual look behind that golden curtain of success and commitment to the craft. With 61 different artists, there’s a colorfully woven tapestry of tales. Some stories certainly involve enough drugs to down an elephant (though probably less than you’d think), but it might be the more innocuous ones that really brought a smile to my face. The Debbie Gibson chapter is a nice oasis between Zakk Wylde and James Williamson (The Stooges). There are also chapters that stand out, like Mark Mothersbaugh hanging out at Studio 54 with Andy Warhol and Michael Jackson-- then accidentally smoking PCP. Jethro Tull was a big surprise to me, both as a featured chapter and the hilarious stories. There are touching moments too, as tragedy and loss seem tied to several perspectives. Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) shares both wild and happy memories, as well as poignant reflections on the loss of childhood friend and bandmate Chester Bennington. No Encore! Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest, Wildest, Most Embarrassing Gigs covers a lot of ground, and I have had a blast traversing the various topographies. I got to chat with Drew about the project, and I’m really grateful for his time.

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BW- First of all, congratulations! I know this has been a long time coming and the culmination of a lot of your own personal hard work. How good does it feel to finally have these stories out there?

DF- That’s a great question. Everyone starts with, “When did you start?” Dude, honestly, it feels f-----g great. I all I ever wanted as a kid, or the only thing I was ever told I was talented at, was writing. And it sounds like a pipe dream, in college or certainly as a young adult. Sure you can do it, but it’s very tricky to make a living. I’m not saying I’m making a living doing it-- or I’m not rich by any means, so having a book baby is everything to me. I’d don’t think I’m ever gonna have kids-- I like kids-- but, I’m not married. (Laughs) But it’s like my little contribution to the world that will be around forever, so it feels amazing.

One of the things that immediately struck me was just the diversity within the chapter list.

You cover a ton of genres with this scope of interviews. Was that always part of your plan- to touch on as many different types and eras of music as possible?

Yeah, I sort of wanted it to be like a mixtape, almost? If you don’t like a song you can skip to another and, yeah, I definitely wanted to celebrate diversity. I could’ve done a book with just a bunch of white indie-rock dudes, you know? But no, I wanted to span genres, I wanted to span decades…

There are things that I wish had worked out better.

For some reason, it was just really hard to get hiphop artists involved.

That was another question, it might be a long list, but was there anybody that you really wanted, that you really had your heart set-on, but it just didn’t work out?

I mean, I thought Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips would be a no-brainer, just ‘cause I’ve interviewed Wayne three times in my career. But for whatever reason, it just didn’t happen. I’m sure some people passed because they weren’t interested, sometimes it was tour cycles, sometimes they were just laying low and not doing press. A lot of it came down to getting people who were interested in the idea, were actively doing press, or I just caught at a good time.

For instance, Wayne Kramer from MC5. I hit him up and, in an hour, he got back to me and said, “Are you ready to go right now? Let’s do it.” Sometimes it came super easy, like him, sometimes it came really difficult, like Insane Clown Posse, who I really had my heart set on from the beginning. Not that I’m a real big fan, but I knew they would have crazy s--t.

(Laughs) For sure.

So about a year ago, I reached out to some dude at Psychopathic Records and it was just a flat out “no.” So that bummed me out, but right as I was about to submit the finished manuscript they suddenly became available… And they are the last chapter in the book. A lot of this book was either happy accidents or relationships that I have cultivated over the years. But I mean, of course, I wanted Lady Gaga, I would’ve loved Madonna

or Bono! But you know… I certainly tried. Willie Nelson would have been really fun, but he was on a down press. So there were a lot of ones. Long story short, hopefully, a book two.

So, there is the possibility of a No Encore! 2?

Oh yeah, sure.

That’s awesome. It’s obvious early on in the book that there aren’t really any holds barred as far what the reader can expect. I mean, starting with Alice Cooper-- who’s a shock rock legend-- was there anything that didn’t or wasn’t able to make the cut? Anything too crazy for whatever reason?

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Too outrageous?

THEIR OWN

Yes! Or were you able to include everything?

PERSONAL AND

Like I said in the introduction, I wasn’t kidding, I love gnarly horror movies. The crazier the better, so no. I figured the GG Allen story-- I mean the guy literally s--t on stage and threw it at people-would probably be as crazy as it could get. But the Dave Navarro, heroin-blood syringe story I didn’t know existed until he told me. But no, nothing was too gnarly. There were a few stories that just didn’t work out because they weren’t gnarly enough. I really don’t want to say who, because I know it’s a bummer they didn’t get included…

PROFESSIONAL

That’s fair.

There were some that were a little too tepid-- they weren’t uninteresting, they just didn’t end up working with the flow of the book.

The axe fell on the other end of the spectrum, not on the wild and crazy side?

Exactly.

Well, you mentioned you knew what you were getting into a little bit, but were you ever surprised by how personal and open some of the artists were? If I’m not mistaken, the Al Jourgensen chapter really kind of surprised a lot of people.

HELLS AND ARE MORE-OR-LESS UNSCATHED IN THE END. I ALWAYS WANTED THIS BOOK TO REMAIN OPTIMISTIC AND FOR IT TO BE, ALL-IN-ALL, A FUN READ FOR ANYONE WHO PICKS IT UP.

He’s never told that Lollapalooza story ever, the one about him OD-ing. He had never told that publicly, so I was amazed. His publicist was amazed because I immediately went to her and said, “Is this true?” I Googled it, and nothing comes up. If you Google Lollapalooza, heroin overdose, and Al Jourgensen, there’s nothing. So that was cool and surprising, and I’m glad that for whatever reason, he hadn’t told that story because it’s an exclusive to us.

One that struck me was Robin Wilson, from Gin Blossoms. He’s the lead singer, but one of the guys behind their album New Miserable Experience, “Hey Jealousy”, and those big songs, he died of alcoholism [related suicide] in the early ’90s.

Robin told me that he had never, I don’t think, openly told the whole story publicly about Doug’s [Hopkins] death. And you would think, “Gin Blossoms, hey! This’ll be fun and poppy!” But that one’s kind of heavy.

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As awful and disastrous, dark, and heavy as some of them are, I personally have found a strange sense of encouragement and inspiration in a lot of them, I wonder if that’s part of what makes these stories so accessible. What do you think it is that makes these worst of the worst kinds of stories so appealing to people?

I KIND OF WANTED THIS-- IN MY LOFTY IDEALIZED VERSION OF IT-- TO BE THE NEW BIBLE FOR TOURING BANDS. AND HOW TO PERSEVERE, AND HOPEFULLY, THEY CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM THE HORRIBLE EMBARRASSING MISTAKES OF THEIR PEERS WHO HAVE COME BEFORE THEM.

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I think because they survived. There were things that people could have legitimately died from, addiction or some sort of self-destruction. Or you know, John Bell, of Widespread Panic… Colonel Bruce Hampton literally died on stage with him. If someone gave me a chapter that was just like, “f--k everything, this industry sucks, I hate music now,” I wouldn’t have included it. Because they weren’t survivors and they’re bitter. All these people went through their own personal and professional hells and are more-or-less unscathed in the end. I always wanted this book to remain optimistic and for it to be, all-in-all, a fun read for anyone who picks it up.

But I also thought as I was going, like, Our Band Could Be Your Life is a book by Michael Azerrad that I really admire. That’s sort of become a bible to touring bands. He got The Butthole Surfers and Replacements, Black Flag and all that. So, I kind of wanted this-- in my lofty idealized version of it-- to be the new bible for touring bands.

And how to persevere, and hopefully, they can learn something from the horrible embarrassing mistakes of their peers who have come before them. (Laughs)

Do you personally have a favorite chapter-either because of the interview, the artist, or the stories that were revealed?

Hmmm…

Is that a loaded question? (Laughs) No, no, I’m just thinking because I’ve said Dave Navarro in the past. I had never interviewed him. I had heard he could be difficult. I wasn’t expecting

him to agree to it, and he came in so fired up.

Told the story perfectly, twenty minutes. Bam, boom. Gave me everything I needed. If every interview could have been like that, this process would’ve been so f-----g easy, and I could have been done in like four months. But he surprised me with one of my favorite stories in the book. It’s raw, it’s revealing, and he can look at it from the perspective of modern-day sobriety.

That’s a big part of that story.

Oh yeah. If he was still struggling, it wouldn’t be humorous. Whatever you want to say about Fiona Apple and what he did to her (laughs)… Yes, he wrote a message on her mirror in blood, but the way he tells the story is comical because he was a drug-addled monster at that point. So that’s one I have to cite as being easy, gave me an awesome chapter, and there was no bulls--t with publishers or managers. He’s kind of like the cornerstone of awesome book subjects for No Encore. I love Dave.

This might be too obvious, but do you have a weird, wild, or most embarrassing interview that you’d be willing to share?

Hmm… Okay, this is bad. It was Lollapalooza, maybe 2009? 2010? I had been doing video interviews all weekend and I was really burned out. I went to interview St. Vincent-- and I couldn’t remember her name, Annie Clark. I couldn’t remember her artist name, St. Vincent.

I was so f-----g unprepared. I had no idea what her album was… (Laughs) It was the height of unprofessionalism. (Laughs) She was awesome!

But I f----d it up.

(Laughs) I guess it could’ve been worse.

No Encore! Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest, Wildest, Most Embarrassing Gigs by Drew Fortune is available for purchase now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BooksA-Million, and IndieBound.

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FEELS LIKE LOCAL

MACON FILM FESTIVAL MEMORIES The Macon Film Festival is truly a magical experience each year. It seems to always bring out the best in Macon. From the hardworking board of directors to the team of volunteers, the Macon Film Festival is a top-notch event that should not be missed!

My husband, Bill and I started attending the Film Festival about 5 years ago and instantly fell in love with the experience. We met filmmakers and directors, set designers, and a couple of actors along the way.

In 2016, we had the privilege of spending the weekend with an artist from Nashville, Sheila B. and her partner, Susan McGuire, an assistant director for Lionsgate Films and ABC. We laughed, we cried, and we laughed until we cried. We hit up every after-party and closed down the party each night with our newfound friends. We were able to see Macon through the lens of visitors to our city and what we saw was glorious.

The next year, I was able to watch a pair of emotionally intense films that changed something deep inside me. Holden On was a tribute to a smalltown Georgia teen that hid his mental illness at all cost. It was a harrowing look at the events that led to his eventual suicide. Unconditional was a look at the life of a young gay teenager that was kicked out of his home by his Christian parents. He turned to prostitution and eventually started using drugs before he stumbled upon Lost-n-Found Youth, a non-profit youth home for homeless LGBTQIA+ youth in Atlanta.

Both films had a profound impact on my life and left me wanting to do more to help those suffering in our communities.

One of the unique aspects of the festival is the opportunity to meet and ask questions of the directors and writers of the films. Being able to uncover the heart of a film is without parallel. Many times, the films come from a place of personal experience and deep pain. There is so much power in this art of storytelling. I hope this year you will find a film that will change your life or perspective.

BY SCOTT MITCHELL Scott Mitchell is the owner of Travis Jean Emporium and is the co-host of Deconstructing Divas on 100.9 The Creek.

He enjoys spending time with his family and furbabies, volunteering, gardening, traveling, watching Broadway shows, and cheering on the Georgia Bulldogs.

Last year, my business, Travis Jean Emporium sponsored the Film Festival for the first time. It was tremendous to see all the visitors in my shop excited to see all that Macon has to offer. These lovers of film will be back in our city this month. Let’s make their time here one for the memory books!

The Macon Film Festival is August 15-18 in venues throughout Downtown Macon.

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House Talk

Ants In My Air Conditioner and Sweat On My Brow!

The inspiration for this article is currently standing outside my house with his hands inside of my air conditioning unit.

Him: It’s welded shut!

Me: What do you mean welded shut?

Him: Them dad-gum ants killed your air conditioning condenser.

Hello? What can ants possibly do to a four-ton condenser? It turns out that ants are one of the leading killers of HVAC units. Fortunately, the system can usually be resurrected.

But in the case of air conditioners, prevention is better than resurrection… And much cheaper! So read on!

I pressed on with my questions, and he told me that it was, “Them relays. Them ants messed up your relays!” He picked up a burnt-out looking module, gave it a shake, and a pile of dead ants fell out. The light went on in my head and I understood. He was talking about an electrical device called a relay. Consider a relay race. You have four runners on the same team. The first one runs his section of a race and then reaches out and touches (or hands a baton) to the next runner who does the same until all the runners have completed the course. If any of them fail to touch the next runner then they are disqualified. It is all about the touch. No touch, no race.

An electrical relay is similar in that it is a spring-loaded switch (think bear trap) with magnetic contacts. When electricity hits the relay or switch, it activates the magnets and the two sides snap shut, touching each other. The electricity flows onto a motor such as an air conditioning compressor. But what if someone put a piece of rubber between the jaws of the relay? Oops! When the jaws snap shut then they couldn’t actually touch, preventing the electricity from flowing!

Back to ants…

Ants are always looking for good spots to hang out-- such as around an electrical relay.

In fact, ants love to crawl and even nest around and inside relays and frequently they will be crawling between the jaws and when the jaws snap shut they squash some ants between them. When enough ants get squashed between the contacts then they act just like a piece of rubber preventing the electricity to get through (kind of a grisly picture if you are an ant). In the process, the relay tends to burn up and $350 dollars later a new relay is installed. If only we thought to spray around the controls with Raid!

It always seems to happen when the temperature is insanely high-- like yesterday. It was a sweaty night and a grouchy wife! I guarantee that if you go to your outside AC unit (the condensing unit), some of you, my trusty readers, will see ants around the bottom and crawling up the sides. So get out your can of bug juice, go over to that AC unit, and spray those babies down even if you don’t see any ants and save yourselves $350 dollars and an unhappy day and night. So easy!

By way of confession, this is not the first time that ants have done their evil deed to my HVAC system. You would think that a home inspector would know to check…

Ned Dominick has been inspecting homes in Macon, Warner Robins, and all of Central Georgia since 1978. He and his qualified inspectors have examined over 28,000 local homes. For more, go to www.housetalk.net or call at 478-738-0893.

”That will be $350, Mr. Dominick!”

Go out and spray those ants now and save your money for something fun!

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PHOTOS BY ANGELINA CASTILLO

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A C O N V E R S AT I O N W I T H

BY ASHLEY DOOLIN

Caroline Spence has been amassing accolades and building credibility since the release of her first EP in 2013. Since then, the Virginia born songwriter has become a force among the Nashville roots scene where she takes an honest approach at crafting songs.

2017’s Spades and Roses was an introduction for some and included the evocative road song “Hotel Amarillo”. Now signed to Rounder Records (a label she shares with her hero, Emmylou Harris), Caroline’s latest, Mint Condition, is a beautiful follow-up that finds her flexing her troubadour muscles and settling in for the long haul as a songwriter.

Deconstructing Divas host, Ashley Doolin, caught up with Caroline at home to discuss the new album, her writing process, and what comes next.

AD- Your Spades and Roses album from 2017 was spectacular. I fell in love with it from the first time I heard it. I didn’t think you could get any better-- but you did! Tell me how Mint Condition came about.

and has always allowed me to figure things out as I go along in the writing process. So I don’t pick up a guitar because I fully understand what I am feeling, I pick up a guitar because I don’t… And that will help. That’s what that meant to me.

CS- The way I make records has always been somewhat similar. God, I love that! So in this process, do you do any people I just take stock of the songs I have been watching? I mean, how do you gather all writing, and I always think it’s a fun and of this? surprising process every time. It kind of gets down to when you have chosen (Laughing) OH YEAH! I travel so much that the songs and recorded the songs, and it is like my second hobby! Yeah, I mean you have to put them in order for the so much of my music is about personal album... I feel like that’s when the story of relationships and people. That is just what I don’t pick up a the record, it presents itself to me clearly fascinates me, the way we relate to each guitar because I for the first time, and this one was no other, the way we relate to ourselves… I different. I enjoyed learning about myself will definitely be in the airport watching a fully understand and where I had been in the last few years couple, writing the script in my head. through this record, hearing it all together what I am As a touring musician, what are the best in this timeline.

I have read where you stated that people often tell you to write about what you know, but a lot of the time you write about what you DON’T know. Can you elaborate on that for me?

feeling, I pick up a guitar because I don’t… And that will help.

What that means to me is that every time I pick up a guitar, I am searching for something. I think a lot of times I have been able to say something in a song that I couldn’t say in a normal conversation, even a conversation with myself, journaling, whatever… There is just something about the space that music gives me, and writing gives me

and worst parts of being on the road?

The best part is just being able to connect with the audience, to speak to them at the merch table, and to be able to hear that the music is reaching them. And that exchange of energy between me and the musicians on stage and the audience is really something that keeps me going. So for that, I am always very, very thankful for touring The hardest part is just it’s hard to get into a routine. It can be hard to find time to take care of yourself and to find the things that make you feel well adjusted.

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after soundcheck, making sure to eat right, it’s the little things that make you feel human.

What is one thing you can’t live without while on the road?

I usually always have a book that I have been reading. A lot of times it just sits. I try to read in the van or in the green room and most of the time it happens first thing in the morning with my coffee in the hotel or wherever. That makes me feel like I am taking care of my mind a little bit, even if I only get to squeeze in a couple of pages a day.

I can only imagine the excitement that you felt-- because I know I would have felt it-- when you found out that Emmylou Harris would be singing harmony vocals on “Mint Condition”.

How did you find out and what was your reaction?

ME TOO!!!

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Thank you! I think she adds so much to that song. It’s the perfect version for me, having her voice on it.

We have had the honor and the privilege of having you in our studio... You came through Macon and you played a Creek Session for us (which can be viewed on our YouTube Channel).

You were wonderful. Your voice is always amazing. Your friend, Tyler Childers, also played a Creek Session for us and I know you two will be performing together later this year. Will you be performing any duets together?

I feel that the people in my peer group, the women in my peer group are just kicking so much butt right now and putting out such great material, and I think they all have their heads on straight in what matters and what doesn’t matter.

Well, when I wrote this song, “Mint Condition”, years ago her voice was what was in my head as I was writing it. It felt like an older more mature story. She is the pinnacle of who I would ever want to record that song! So in my head, I was like, “Let’s set the bar there and try and do it.” When we were making this record, serendipitously, my producer Dan Knobler, had worked with [Emmylou]. It’s SO unlike me to ask things, but I thought if I don’t ask him because I am afraid, I would feel really silly. So I asked him if he would feel comfortable reaching out to her and seeing if she would sing on it. She said send me the song and then she said yes-- and this was before I had my record deal. This was just going to be another independent release as far as I was concerned. The fact that she said yes and came in and was just so wonderful and complimentary of the song... It just will forever be one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

I am so glad you asked her!

The first time that I heard “Mint Condition”, no exaggeration...

Tears. It is a beautiful song and both of your voices just mesh into the best combination ever possible!

We haven’t talked about it yet, but he’s going to have this whole new record coming out and I am really excited to hear more of that, especially on those nights that we are out together! It’ll be fun!

You have been writing and playing music since you were itty bitty... Did you ever think in your mind, “What if this doesn’t pan out for me?” What would you be doing now if it weren’t for your music? What road would you have taken?

It took me so long to even take this path seriously, I think that further down the road making other plans than music... I mean, after my first record came out, I was like, “Do I need to go to Grad School?” Yeah, it took me a long time to really believe that this was possible for me, so when anyone is like, “Would you want to be doing anything else?”, I’m like, “I can’t believe I am doing this!” One of the jobs I had done for a really long time before I was able to do music full time was as a Nanny, and I LOVED taking care of children. I contemplated getting my Montessori certification, my Masters in Education, all of that stuff. I was further down that road than I was believing in myself as an artist and songwriter, to be honest. I feel so lucky that this is the path that I am on.

So my own opinion, well actually it’s a lot of women’s opinions…

Sports and the music industry have a lot of parallels when it comes to women and equality. Do you ever feel that a lot of radio stations fail to include women in their everyday playlist?

And why do you think that is?

I am fortunate enough to be outside of the “Country Radio Sphere”. I do feel that the Americana and the Triple A stations, I’m sure, reflect on the inequality of the world, but I feel like there is not as much as a profound difference. I don’t know?

I mean, I try not to dwell on it too much and when it really comes down to it, I feel that the people in my peer group, the women in my peer group are just kicking so much butt right now and putting out such great material, and I think they all have their heads on straight in what matters and what doesn’t matter. I think we all just put our heads down and do the work and hope it gets heard and if we write good enough songs that they’re going to play them. So that’s how I have gotten through those moments when it has felt like the playing field wasn’t equal.

If you could put together your dream team of all-female performers for an album, who would you want on it?

(Laughs) Oh my goodness, well, Emmylou would be amazing.

So many other women that I grew up listening to, like Mary Chapin Carpenter, she is one of my all-time favorite artists in the entire world. Lucinda Williams. The women that showed me that this is a career path and a path you can be on where you’re a songwriter AND a singer AND you can have other people record your music. Lucinda and Patty Griffin were that for me.

That would be AWESOME! My co-worker, host of Honky Tonk Hell, Aaron Irons has an adorable 2-year-old daughter, Carter Wray, that adores you. She requests to listen to your song “Who’s Gonna Make My Mistakes” over and over to anyone that is operating the radio.

WHAT?! (Laughing) Oh my gosh! That’s amazing!

What advice would you give her if she were to pick up a guitar, want to play the drums, want to be in a band, write music-- if she wanted to follow in your footsteps?

I would say do it for YOU! Do it because it makes YOU happy.

I think about myself as a kid and how much music made me

happy and how it was always what I was drawn to. And the more I work in the business side of it, I work fiercely to try and protect the childlike part of my life and my love for music. So I would just say just do it because you love it, and you should always chase what makes you happy-- and you should always fiercely protect that happiness.

What are your goals going forward with the new album out?

What are you hoping to accomplish and tuck under your belt next?

I just look forward to being able to do this all again. I really want a career, I want to keep putting out music as long as I can.

I hope that with every album that I get to reach more people and play in front of more people and have more people hear the record. I feel so lucky to be doing this, I know I have a lot more songs up my sleeves, so I am just looking forward to being able to do it all again.

Would you ever consider publishing a book of your songs?

Things that didn’t make it as far as you wanted them to or things you feel weren’t ready?

I’ve never really quite thought about that, but you know there are some songs I will push aside for two albums that I will pull back out and pick up-- and all of a sudden that song means something new. So I think that’s just part of my journey. I try and keep up with everything I’ve written and you never know when something is going to speak to you more clearly. So those little things I have tossed aside might still have life in them. That was true with a couple of songs on this record.

I look forward to so much more out of you. I know our listeners do as well. I’m hoping to be able to catch you around here-- or to get you back here in Macon! I want to thank you so much for taking the time for me today!

Thank you so much for having me and for playing me back when I was an independent artist! I just realized, and I am not even kidding, I am wearing my Creek WNEX t-shirt that you all gave me! (Laughing) So thanks, guys!

Tune into 100.9 The Creek to hear the latest from Caroline Spence and visit the artist at carolinespencemusic.com.

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A spotlight is being cast on a crop of homegrown filmmakers during this year’s Macon Film Festival. For the first time, a “Macon Made Shorts” film block will be showcased Saturday, August 17th from 10:30amNoon at the Hargray Capitol Theatre. The four short films featured in the 14th annual festival were all hardpressed for production in Macon’s fledgling local film industry, but all the filmmakers involved agree on Georgia’s potential.

Getting into the field is the first obstacle to overcome.

William Adams worked as a registered EMS, a news reporter at the Citizen Georgian, and also had a landscaping job with Real Turf Solutions in Fort Valley, GA. He recalled, “My God… In the middle of the summer heat, I thought I was gonna die. Everything in me was telling me, ‘You can’t do this, you need to quit!’” But after a lot of hard work, Adams is now the media producer for Real Turf Solutions. “It’s worked out great,” he said, “but the time in the field was real beneficial to me as a person.”

Film Festival Preview macon made

By Madelyn Reuter

Adams’ role at Real Turf coincides well with his production company, ShadowCast Studios. At only 23 and completely self-taught, Adams has turned his house into a full recording and editing studio with all of the equipment needed for both jobs. He built a professional sound booth out of a towel closet, ran all of the cables and acoustic paneling, and set up his website and online booking system. And if that’s not dedication, he also sleeps on the floor of his studio in a sleeping bag because he likes to wake up and get right to work.

On Adams’ short film, The Come Back, he worked with Macon actors Cedric Logan and Donja Harper.

He said he owes a lot of credit to Dez Giles who was the executive producer and plays “Big Ron” in the film. Adams hopes to continue working with these friends, build a solid crew, and grow his net worth. He is currently working on another script and has already sent treatments out to his connections.

Filmmaker Phillip S. Wheeler of Rectify Productions pulls inspiration from his life in Macon and Centerville.

“I want to show what making the right choice looks like, to show what people don’t like to discuss,” Wheeler said. His film, Euphorica, touches on substance abuse, which he has seen affect a lot of people in the community. Wheeler finds that he absorbs his environment and then releases it in his content. His next project, a feature film titled Centerville Hills, has a sensitive, deeper meaning with improved characters, dialogue, and story structure.

Wheeler is currently enrolled at Middle Georgia State and studies in their New Media and Communications program. On Euphorica, Phillip worked with a lot of his family, including his little brother and sister and his cousin, Steven Bell. Bell was in the Warner Robins

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band, Crescent Moon Dogs, and helped Wheeler score the film. Another band, Fantasy Guys out of Atlanta, added a groove to his vision of a colorful film. Wheeler also worked with Macon actor and fellow student Jelani Perkins and Mark Madden.

For a beginning director, it’s difficult to create a script, find a team, and get a film rolling, but Wheeler used reserved from over the years to produce Euphorica within four months. He hopes to spend more time on his next project but is happy with the momentum that Euphorica has given his career at only 21 years old.

Chris Hall of Mayhem Productions began making films back in 2004 after he started watching Film Riot videos on YouTube. Hall is mainly interested in writing and directing, but he can do a bit of everything if that’s what a film needs: “For 11-13 years, I’ve been in some type of management role, and I think that developed me into a leader… But at the same time, if I know someone could do better with the project, I’d be willing to hand it off to them and take a backseat in another role.

Ultimately, it’s the project that needs to be its best.

It’s like a guitar player in a band-- if all you’re doing is playing solos, you’re killing the song. The whole song’s gotta shine, and sometimes that means taking a step back. I just want to tell stories.”

His hope for Central Georgia is to create enough noise to inspire a movement for film to flourish. Because the filmmakers here are still a relatively small group, they often network and collaborate. Dez Giles stars in Adams’ The Come Back and will feature in Hall’s festival selection, This Day Sucks. In addition, Wheeler and his continued on page 30

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cinematographer, John Carrol DeShazier, have both worked with William Adams.

For the This Day Sucks soundtrack, Hall reached out to a friend in the Macon band 8 Second Ride and used their song, “Outlaw”.

CXL, the project from local artists KaPP YounGG and Cedric Logan, is also featured in the short. After wrapping his film, Hall worked on a music video for CXL’s “Woozy”. To continue down the rabbit hole of Macon collaborators, Donja Harper of The Come Back also starred in “Woozy”!

Growing up in Macon, Hall feels he had a bit of a sheltered childhood, but his uncle and other family friends were heavily involved in the film industry. His uncle would tell him stories about filming in Cancun and Hawaii, and he gave Hall an original copy of the Fried Green Tomatoes director’s script which has given Chris a lot of his inspiration as a writer. Quentin Tarantino and Pulp Fiction heavily inspired This Day Sucks. The film has already won an award for “Best Homage in a Short,” from the Metro TV and Film Awards.

These filmmakers traveled all across Georgia and even Florida to bring their films to life. Wheeler’s Euphorica began filming in Atlanta’s Botanical Garden. Filmmakers Griffin Ver Steeg, Rachel Hastings, and Ryan Fordham went all the way to Panama City Beach on a 24-hour trip for the most crucial scenes of their film, Erasure.

Griffin Ver Steeg has since become an editor in New York after making Erasure with Fordham and Hastings. The three met as students in Middle Georgia State’s New Media and Communications program.

“It was a passion project for all of us, really,” Ver Steeg said. “This was our first real film endeavor, and we wanted to give it our best.”

Fordham, Hastings, and Ver Steeg bonded over their love films like Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Upstream Color, and the work of Terrence Malick.

The first scene of their film takes place at BJ’s Billiards in Macon and was filmed while the pool hall was open and busy. “They kinda let us take over for an hour,” Ver Steeg said. “There were people just walking around, having drinks, walking in our shots… It gave the scene a real, authentic feel that I really, really liked.” It also gave the team a “free sound design” that they were able to use in the film.

Growing up in Macon, Ver Steeg always appreciated the local culture. “A lot of my inspiration for story ideas or scripts comes from my experience spending time around old, historical, forgotten parts of Macon that people don’t tend to think about or see, or even know,” he said. He recommends embracing the history and changes of Macon: “You’re not getting away from that,” he said. “There’s something significant about Macon. People tend to always want to get out of Macon. Growing up, it was always about ‘I’m getting out of here as soon as I can,’ and I was always excited about Macon and its progress…I think it’s beneficial to lean into it and grow with it-- and I say that from New York where I’ve moved,” he said with a laugh.

Being from Macon has been beneficial to everyone as they’ve worked to find their footing. Chris Hall said, “A rising tide will raise all ships,” meaning that as the filmmakers of Central Georgia continue building each other up, the film industry here will become a force to be reckoned with.

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THE Z BEANS STORY

THE INEVITABLE BALANCE: LIFE WITHOUT COFFEE

BY SHANE BUERSTER

Life is a balance. You win, and you learn.

I refuse to believe I have ever lost, and I encourage you to think the same way. We are all familiar with the term “beginner's luck.” We will try something for the very first time, and voila, it works. We try it ten more times and have no such luck. Why does this it happen? I like to call it The Inevitable Balance.

Immediately, I rushed to check the inventory we had left. One 100-pound sack. “This isn't good.” I started thinking of ways to keep pushing forward while also cutting back. "How in the world could a coffee company survive without any coffee?"

On the flip side of the 'beginner's luck' coin, we have the instances where we work extremely hard, try something for the first time, and fail.

We go back to the drawing board, figure out what we did wrong, and try again. Our second attempt runs smoothly, and we are able to get the job done from there on out. Hence, we never lose. We learn.

I received an email on Friday, July 13th at 2:15 pm. Again, it was the freight forwarders.

This is the founding principal upon which Z Beans is built.

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On June 9, 2018, I expected to return from my fourth trip to Ecuador. I stayed there for 3 weeks, working on gathering all of our different coffees and putting together the new supply chain that would allow us to ship by boat. However, I couldn't get the job done.

I couldn't get the right pieces in place, the freight forwarders and custom brokers weren't directly coordinating with Marie and Fabricio at Caffe Marie, and I couldn't get the shipping company to the new farmers in northern Ecuador in time.

I took a step back. I reset the plans, pushed my return date back a week, and slowed everything down. After that, the supply chain ran smoothly. We got all of the coffee to Pinas, processed it, and loaded it up on our first 20foot container. I returned to The States on June 17th, expecting the coffee to arrive at the port of Savannah on July 7th.

I got a phone call on June 28. It was the freight forwarders.

"Shane, the container was held up at the Panama Canal, and it didn't make it on the ship. The shipment will be delayed a week."

The time passed. We made it work.

"Shane, everything looks good. The FDA has released the product, and it will be available for pickup on July 16th."

I was ecstatic. I gave our shipping company a call and told them the great news. They told me that their truck would be there first thing Monday morning, and I would have the coffee Monday afternoon.

My phone rang. It was Friday, July 13 at 2:37 pm… And it was the freight forwarders "Shane, I'm sorry. But customs border patrol placed your container under a manifest hold.

They will check over the documents once more on Monday or Tuesday then more than likely send it through the scanners. You should, hopefully, get it within a week."

I sat for a few seconds. Head up. Eyes forward.

I tried my best to stay positive. I tried my best to learn.

"What can I do to ensure this doesn't happen again?" I asked.

"This happens, Shane. Customs has the right to inspect and place a hold on any container they want. They don't need to have a reason. We will update you throughout the entire process."

I walked over to our bin of roasted coffee. It was empty. I walked back to my chair and sat down. I kept my head high. I stayed positive. I accepted my current fate, and I learned from it.

For the next week, we would be a coffee company… Without coffee.

1. REQUIRED LISTENING

THE LOST TAPES- MUDDY WATERS The Lost Tapes was both a lesson and a lecture that I didn’t know I needed. My grandpa first taught me the 12 bar blues on guitar, and as a wide-eyed kid, I thought that was it: just a few steps and you’re feeling the blues. Besides that lesson, Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy” riff was the sum of my knowledge.

I could recognize the blues sound in Elvis, The Beatles, and even current pop music, but the blues itself remained a mystery, like a cartoony element of sadness that artists picked up when they felt glum.

But this genre is as much a war song as rock or punk. In The Lost Tapes, you can hear the audience moved by the lyrics, Muddy’s personality with his band, and the unique, yet stable live improvisation.

Instinct and emotion drive the songs lyrically and sonically. “But someday, baby,you ain't gonna trouble poor me anymore,” changes from a hopeful dream to an empowered proclamation. A prophecy is foretold and by the end of the song, it’s gospel. Part of Muddy’s relaxed, instinctual ability comes from his upbringing in Mississippi. He kept his sound acoustic until he went to Chicago-- he needed the amps and electricity to be heard in the city. Willie Dixon said that Muddy Waters set himself apart by singing his blues with a little “pep” while other artists kept to their sad tunes. I guess I wasn’t the only one who thought you had to mope around with the blues. Muddy transformed the scene with his energetic style while remaining relatable to the genre. He was singing about his troubles, but he was doing something about them at the same time.

The Lost Tapes is a complicated recording of a wildly intelligent musician... But all of Waters’ work is like the “ABCs” for anybody getting acquainted with the blues.

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2. DRINK THIS

ISAAC BOWMAN PORT BARREL FINISHED STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY I’ve got some favorite labels when it comes to bourbon, and Bowman’s is one of ‘em. The Bowman Brothers Small Batch is go-to, and from the accessible to the “I’m only gonna get to try this once, so I’m payin’ for it,” I’ve never had a bad bourbon from the Fredericksburg, Virginia outfit. The Issac Bowman Port Barrel Finished is no exception. Generally, I don’t seek out “wine” barrel finished varieties. With very few exceptions, it’s not my thing. But the Isaac Bowman’s just called to me from the shelf, so I gave it a whirl. There’s no age statement, but it’s probably at least a 4 year old bourbon that gets another 6 or so months in a port wine barrel. All the sour oak-y, woodsy goodness you want from a bourbon, but with some sweet and spicy fruit notes. I plan on enjoying a glass of the Issac Bowman’s outside once the weather cools off with a hardwood fire and a few friends to share it with me.

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3. READ THIS

THE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING This is one of my favorite books of all time. A little snail finds the author, Elizabeth Tova Bailey, and during their time together, the snail becomes Bailey’s entire world. This book is better than any essay or report on snail activity. Were it not for this book, I can’t say I ever would have cared to learn about snails: their 2,640 teeth (eighty rows of 33), their mossy houses, complicated courtships and romances, even their nocturnal sleep schedules. But Bailey saw the snail as her friend, just as we see any other pet. She watches it as it eats, and says, “I thought my snail’s tendency to gently nod its head as it ate was just a personality trait—but there was more to it than that,” and so we learn about the meaning behind its name “gastropod”—iterally, “stomach-foot.” They are part of our environment. Like a fish or hamster, the snail found a home on Bailey’s nightstand and proved itself to be just as fascinating as any other animal.

Creative nonfiction finds a way between the personal and natural worlds that often feel so disconnected, and this book is a perfect bridge between the two.

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LIFE AFTER FLASH

I My dad took me to see Flash Gordon in the theater when I was 3-years-old, and it remains one of my earliest and fondest memories. The over-thetop performances, brilliant set-designs, and epic soundtrack by Queen amazed me then and the movie is still a wonderful treat today. But I was a little surprised when Flash’s popularity seemed to explode a few years ago… Turns out the film and its star, Sam J. Jones, got a bit of bump (if you will) from Seth McFarlane’s Ted that introduced the adaptation of Alex Raymond’s iconic comic strip character to a whole new audience. But aside from becoming somewhat of a pop culture icon, what happened to Jones? Told from the point of view of his co-stars (Melody Anderson, Topol, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Richard O’Brien & more), family, friends, and the man himself, Life After Flash takes a look at Sam Jones’ near-leap to superstardom and inevitable fall. The camp of Flash Gordon’s production, Brian May’s breakdown of the music, the culture surrounding Flash Gordon, and Jones’ evolution from Hollywood actor to highend bodyguard are all covered in this documentary available to stream now with Amazon Prime.

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BO TALKS Crazy Pills

I know sometimes I try a bit too hard to stay relevant and topical.

It’s not always easy these days, as “dad-brain” is apparently a real thing. We used to give my dad grief for one time calling the band Ace of Base, “The Big Base.” I knew I was starting to slip when, a few years ago, I was playing with my boys and casually called Batman’s cowl his “hat.” It was a real eye-opening moment. Still, I’d like to think I’m not too old to find the cultural pulse enough to share opinions on things. What I can’t do, however, is keep up with people’s nanosecond long attention spans. Social outrage flies on the fickle wind of these summer heatwaves and on top of that, some people are just plain crazy.

In the week between me writing my column on the live-action Little Mermaid, and it being published, nearly the entire conversation vanished. Replaced might be more apropos since there’s always something dancing on the tongues of the masses. It’s no wonder w e can’t solve any of our big problems, we can’t even stay angry about the same thing for longer than a week! I bet some

of you were never even angry, to begin with. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are people out there who have no clue what I’m even talking about, and it’s those I envy most. They’re the safest from the Russians.

What Russians, you ask?

One of those replacement topics seemed to be an app that edits photos. Perhaps you’ve seen it? It shows you what you’ll look like as an old person, and it might also grant access to your personal information to the Russians. I’m no strategist, but if there’s one thing I imagine the Russians can put to vital use, it’s pictures of your cousin Dustin as an old man.

They’re as excited to have that intel as Instagram is having all those pictures of your bath bombs and brunches. But seriously, if you’re reading this on a smartphone then your privacy is already shot. Wave and say hello because they’re always watching.

Another thing has been this Area 51 raid. A really solid source for quality memes, but (*Principal Belding voice*) hey, hey, hey, what is going on here?? Doesn’t this all

start to sound a little crazy? In under a week, people have gone from being pissed about the Little Mermaid being black to spreading Cold War techno-fear through photo manipulation to raiding Area 51! I’m just trying to surf some tasty waves on the world wide web, and it feels like the walk back from the water fountain after having to take your Ritalin in grade school. Everything moves in slow and fast motion at the same time. People are familiar, yet you notice little differences about them that you never really saw before. Or that’s what I imagine it feels like.

Maybe it’s just me and I’m blossoming into another old man yelling at the clouds. Maybe this is who I am now. Maybe, just maybe, the Russians are using this privacy hysteria to somehow fuel the Area 51 raid, because they already know what’s in there… A little, black mermaid.

Bo Walker is a local writer who wants you to know that until Nicolas Cage joins the raid on Area 51, it will be doomed to fail.

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Netflix and Nickelodeon have teamed up with creator Joe Murray to present Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling, available to stream on 8/9. After 20 years in space, Rocko struggles to adjust to life in present-day O-Town and fights to get his favorite show back on the air...

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Panic! At the Disco, Billie Eilish, Vampire Weekend, Walk the Moon, Cold War Kids, Shaed, and more will be in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park for Music Midtown 9/14-15…

Also on 10/4, Wilco will release Ode to Joy. Jeff Tweedy has said the LP will consist of “really big, big folk songs, these monolithic brutal structures that these delicate feelings are hung on.”

Look for Tina Hutchence’s biography of her brother, Michael: My Brother, Lost Boy of INXS on 10/1…

Congratulations may be in order for My Chemical Romance heartthrob Gerard Way. The Netflix adaptation of his Umbrella Academy comic has received two Emmy nominations-“Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More)” and “Outstanding Special Visual Effects.”

Here’s hoping Gerard takes home two golden statues on 9/22 then reunites the band…

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Georgia National Fair with the Gin Blossoms on 10/8. The Arizona band rocketed to stardom in the ’90s with melodic folk-infused rock and songs like “Hey Jealousy” and “Found Out About You”...

Alice In Chains frontman William DuVall will release One Alone on 10/4. The album is entirely acoustic, and according to DuVall, is “strictly one voice, one guitar. It reveals the very core of who I am as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter.” Check out the lead single, “Til the Light Guides Me Home”...

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The Dickey Betts Band just

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Lasers Lasers Birmingham-- what the heck does that even mean? We don’t know, but the Los Angeles outfit led by Alex Owen is killer (if off-filter) Southern California Country Gold, and worth your time. The new album, Warning, is available now…

“We went in without any preconceived notions and came out with a really sleazy, steamy rock ’n' roll record...

It’s definitely my most psychedelic. And also my heaviest. I had this idea that it’d be really cool to animate some of these songs, and we ended up with a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic samurai film.”

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Sturgill Simpson’s next album is the soundtrack for a Netflix Anime film?

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The debut album from Highwomen-Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, and Maren Morris-will be out on 9/6. The Dave Cobb produced super project will feature songs written by The Highwomen as well as Jason Isbell and Ray LaMontagne…

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Country Music: An Illustrated History will be

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Corb Lund’s new EP, Cover Your Tracks, will drop on 9/13. I’ve already pre-ordered mine at store.newwestrecords. com. As rumored, Corb has put together a collection of covers including the Shel Silverstein penned “The Cover of the Rolling Stone”-- and featuring Corb’s pal Hayes Carll…

Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes will release Jaime on 9/20…

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Monday 8/5 FRIENDS ON THE HILL (WARNER ROBINS) Double Down Service Industry Night

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ROCO’S BAR (BONAIRE) Delta Moan 9pm

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