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Charlie Christian, Miles, Monk, Coltrane, Ornette

Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin.

fried chicken.

Slint
KFC
Pavement (Bob Nastanovich, Stephen Malkmus , and Steve West met there, however Gary and Scott were from California)
subject matter for many good songs
very beautiful girls.

Sweet Potato Pie.

Hush Puppies.

Many other fine things, I'm sure, but those are the ones that stuck with me after a recent trip down there.

And Chik-Fil-A (sp?).

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Sweet Potato Pie

A Proper Mint Julep

The Southern Poverty Law Center

Shrimp and Grits

Eastern NC BBQ, as noted above

Our brand of Jangle Pop, ca. 1982,83,84

Western NC BBQ, also noted above

Our brand of indie noise rock, ca. 1989,90,91

Real Corn Liquor and small batch bourbon

Mosquitos the size of small child
(oops, that was supposed to be on my "worst things" list along with oppressive humidity, kudzu, Jesse Helms and South Carolina).

-A

ZZ Top
James Brown
Stax
Bourbon
Black Oak Arkansas
Southern Food
Cormac McCarthy
Batshit Crazy Women.

me.

Really Red

Angus Jung wrote:

Maurice wrote:Bedhead
Charlie Christian, Miles, Monk, Coltrane, Ornette

Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin.

Yeah, too many best things to name, really. Hopefully this thread will continue for a while and after 20 or 30 pages we can stack up our list against political, sociological and cultural trends deemed to be "southern." See how things compare.

To continue:

William Faulkner

Mark Twain

Kate Chopin

Charlie Patton

Skip James

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Willie Brown

Ishman Bracey

Big Joe Williams

T-Model Ford

Langston Hughes

Zora Neale Hurston

Claude McKay (born in Jamaica but arrived in the south and studied at Booker T's Tuskegee Institute)

Robert Penn Warren

Tennessee Williams

Flannery O'Connor

Martin Luther King, Jr

Donald Barthelme