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	<title>A Southern Missive</title>
	
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	<description>A blog for Southern writers, readers, English teachers, and rebels.</description>
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		<title>A Review of To Live’s to Fly by John Kruth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r. pittman</dc:creator>
		
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To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth A Review by Rickey Pittman
This is the second biography I’ve read of Townes Van Zandt. And though I found many points that overlapped with the previous biography I reviewed (A Deeper Blue), I found To Live’s to Fly: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Alice: An Excerpt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r. pittman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Advice for Writers from an Award Winning Author
There’s a New York Times Bestseller entitled, Still Alice, a novel by Lisa Genova (Simon &#38; Schuster). For anyone with a parent suffering from Alzheimer’s, this is a must read. Though there are many things I could say about this novel, I chose to do an entry for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories of the Confederate South: A Review by Cassie A Barrow</title>
		<link>http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2009/07/03/stories-of-the-confederate-south-a-review-by-cassie-a-barrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r. pittman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories of the Confederate South: A Review by Cassie A Barrow, published in Confederate Veteran, July/August/ 2009.
It is essential in today’s society to have books that tell the story of the Confederacy to a younger audience. To do so successfully, the writer must be witty, entertaining, yet relate the truth about the time period, even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Original Song #9: “Look How Lonely”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r. pittman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the lyrics to song #9 for my CD of original songs. The melody and chords I had written years ago, but the lyrics only tonight. I&#8217;m excited! Only one more song for my first CD of original music.
“Look How Lonely”: A Song by Rickey E. Pittman
Verse 1
I guess we didn’t think the worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Busy Fall Ahead: Sam’s Club Book Signings</title>
		<link>http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2009/07/01/a-busy-fall-ahead-sams-club-book-signings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r. pittman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An important part of any author&#8217;s or musician&#8217;s life is the promotion of his work. This year, I&#8217;m signed up for author events at these Sam&#8217;s Clubs. Almost always, Sam&#8217;s will have high traffic.  So here is my Sam&#8217;s Schedule in Louisiana and Texas:
9/5/2009       9:30 to 11:30 Jackson, MS
10/3/2009 9:00 to 11:00 Longview
10/3/2009 4:00 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy: A Review</title>
		<link>http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2009/06/30/a-deeper-blue-the-life-and-music-of-townes-van-zandt-by-robert-earl-hardy-a-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>r. pittman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt 
by Robert Earl Hardy
A Review by Rickey E. Pittman
My recent interest in the life and music of Townes Van Zandt began with a recording on one of my Oxford Magazine music CD’s.  The song was “Nothin’” and it was sung by Townes himself. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Did Spring Come Early to Columbia?” A New Song by Rickey Pittman</title>
		<link>http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2009/06/29/did-spring-come-early-to-columbia-a-new-song-by-rickey-pittman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really am working hard on my songwriting. Here is song #7 for my CD I want to have made this summer. I&#8217;ll be &#8220;field testing&#8221; these songs on some audiences soon. I&#8217;m thinking of adding a couple of traditional songs that I&#8217;ve got my own arrangements for to the CD as well. We&#8217;ll see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Song for Johnny . . . A true story</title>
		<link>http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2009/06/27/a-song-for-johnny-a-true-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this song in memory and in honor of Johnny. I never knew his last name. He was Hispanic, and he was hired by the Pittman family to take care of my grandfather in his last months, when we knew he was dying. A hospice worker of a sort, I guess, who lived with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgotten Lullaby: A new song/poem</title>
		<link>http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2009/06/26/forgotten-lullaby-a-new-songpoem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second anniversary of my brother&#8217;s death. This poem, that I hope to turn into a song, came to me, so I scribbled it down.  With my friend Tom McCandlish&#8217;s help, I&#8217;m going to make a CD of original songs this summer. I&#8217;ve got six good songs already, so I need  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Laura Elisabeth Ulrich, an Extroadinary Vocalist</title>
		<link>http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2009/06/23/an-interview-with-laura-ulrich-an-extroadinary-vocalist/</link>
		<comments>http://southernmissive.booklocker.com/2009/06/23/an-interview-with-laura-ulrich-an-extroadinary-vocalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Elisabeth Ulrich is one of the brightest and most talented women I&#8217;ve ever encountered. We first met in my English class at ULM, and I was impressed with her writing, and later after hearing her sing, with her voice. She is passionate, loyal to her friends and family, and an achiever by nature. She [...]]]></description>
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