Alon Shaya, Author at Salvation South

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Alon Shaya’s Blue Crab and Roasted Corn Hummus

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Sometimes, when we’re gutted by loss, we go ahead and sing about it. This Mississippi poet does just that.

This week’s edition of Salvation South begins with the haunting memories of a childhood incident and ends with a trip into Afrofuturism — with a stop on the Alabama coast just for fun.

In which an impish, six-year-old girl finds solace in the arms of a laughing son of God.

Borscht, chemo and Southern hospitality: the story of how St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis stepped in to help Ukrainian children fleeing war and fighting cancer.

Nat Myers’s sound is reminiscent of Charley Patton and Memphis Minnie, but his perspective as a first-generation Korean-American raised in Kentucky brings a fresh twist to the fingerstyle blues tradition.

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A long, early-morning bike ride sparks recollections of a long-ago friendship—with its unspoken words and unresolved tensions.

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