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When I was destroying this paper by
dragging a shitty car through the Mis-
sissippi Delta, having fled New Or-
leans due to gun shots, the literal fuck-
ing smell of death, and overwhelming
indignation—what does a bratty jour-
nalist do in the face of true suffering
and abandonment, when it’s time to
drop the pen and pick up a shovel?—
we turned to a search of the American
bluesman scene. R.L. Burnside had
just died, and I thought maybe we
could talk to his peers. David “Honey-
boy” Edwards had just visited Iceland,
so octogenarian bluesmen were on the
mind.
Enter T Model Ford. James Lewis
Carter Ford, then guesstimated to
be 88, was famous with a booking
agent, etc., but that didn’t stop him
from showing up at Red’s juke joint in
Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he was
promised $200 cash and a pint of Jack
Daniels.
Blues Redeemed Me:
GravelRoad And The
Reykjavik Grapevine
The scores of shitty decisions I made during my fevered dream of a run as editor of this be-
loved magazine sometimes haunt me. On the bright side, I hired and trained the staff that
would see this magazine into solid stewardship. On the down side, I fired a lot of good people,
I consumed something called Smirnoff Ice on a spring night, and I once spent money we
didn’t have to fly our exhausted asses to Orlando so that we could drive a PT Cruiser to New
Orleans to cover Hurricane Katrina. Why would an Icelandic travel magazine cover Hurri-
cane Katrina, you ask? I don’t have a great answer. I wish I could blame a Montessori educa-
tion, but I was raised on public school discipline with a focus on fear over creativity.
Photo Anna Domnick
Words Bart Cameron
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