Celtic
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The Sin of Sinners
I’m still struggling to digest Sinners. It was brilliant until the film decided to make the music of oppressed indigenous people from Northwest Europe, Scots and Irish–the latter victims of a genocide–the new “Devil’s Music.“ Why not silly cracker music like Turkey in the Straw and My Old Kentucky Home? Why not outright minstrel music?… Continue reading
About Me
Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).
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Well Bottom Blues 