The accusation, as it often is in Mississippi, was the confession. - Wright Thompson

When I tell my daughter, Wallace the story of the place she's from — when I play Muddy Waters or Son House or Skip James — I want her to see the complete picture. I want her to hear that music and know that people like us — planters and landowners, which we are — often caused the pain these musicians turned into beauty,

Nobody wants to hear what I have to say, which is just reps. Zen is a butt in a seat. There's no mystery. It's just reps.

I ordered us another, and we sat there, me and my father’s older brother and best friend, and we sipped this beautiful, rare, expensive whiskey and we didn’t need to say a thing.