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The Bitter Southerner Podcast
Hosted by Georgia Public Broadcasting · EN
The Bitter Southerner Podcast, hosted by Bitter Southerner magazine editor Chuck Reece, explores the culture and history of the American South. It is a co-production of Georgia Public Broadcasting and The Bitter Southerner magazine.
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BONUS: "Jamón, Y'all" from America's Test Kitchen
Mar 20, 202000:44:36Tap to summarizeTranscribe →Can the South Be Redeemed?
Mar 6, 202001:07:59Tap to summarizeTranscribe →Progress, Heartbreak & Art: The TVA
Feb 21, 202000:52:33Tap to summarizeTranscribe →Hillbillies Need No Elegy
Feb 7, 202000:36:34Tap to summarizeTranscribe →The Ways of Waffle House
Jan 24, 202000:41:53Tap to summarizeTranscribe →The Exactly Right Cake
Jan 10, 202000:44:27Tap to summarizeTranscribe →BONUS: Best Southern Albums of 2019
Dec 20, 201900:43:53Tap to summarizeHost Chuck Reece welcomes NPR Music's Ann Powers to help us run down the 10 best Southern albums of 2019.
Transcribe →An Undeserved Gift: Okra
Dec 13, 201900:34:59Tap to summarizeOkra is not native to North America. It arrived here at the same time enslaved Africans did. No one — no botanist, no historian — can confirm exactly how it got here. But it has connected Southerners across the lines of race, faith, and gender for centuries. In this episode of The Bitter Southerner Podcast, James Beard Award winning journalist Shane Mitchell travels to New Orleans to show how okra unites in the gumbo pot and in our lives.
Transcribe →The Blues Is Dead?
Nov 29, 201900:53:27Tap to summarizeThe spirit of High John the Conqueror keeps the wellsprings of American music, Southern blues and gospel, alive. GUESTS: Musicians Jontavious Willis (Georgia), Bobby Rush (Louisiana), Jake Fussell (North Carolina), the Glorifying Vines Sisters (North Carolina), and the late singer Precious Bryant (Georgia)....and Tim and Denise Duffy of the Music Maker Relief Foundation.
Transcribe →What We Talk About When We Talk About How We Talk
Nov 15, 201900:45:00Tap to summarizeDo you think a Southern accent means its speaker is dumb? In Episode 1 of our second season, we got news for you. GUESTS: Comedians Trae Crowder, Drew Morgan, and Corey Ryan Forrester...Bitter Southerner contributors Dartinia Hull and Lolis Eric Elie...Rapper Killer Mike...Bitter Southerner readers Kristy Wittman Howell and Jessica Whatley
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