We Are the Promised Land

From moonshine to Mollie Barr, we read the mycelial pathways of marronage in Hill Country clay. Then the kids talk business, imagine the past and future of the Ranch. Music Black Mattie performed by Napoleon Strickland courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity Othar Turner & Rising Star Fife and Drum Band : 2 of 9 , 1978 courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity maroon, distillery,...

EP 4: What We Had On Hand Annie and Annette follow their maternal line to cotton on to how their family has conjured abundance from what they had on hand. music Father I Stretch My Hand to Thee performed by Autreniece and Teena Ease My Troubling Mind traditional arr. by free feral poke salat, pluggin’ along, & change is a foot by free feral If It Wasn’t For the Lord performed by Annie and Conn...

Bill and Annette take stock of some sacrifices they’ve made to develop the land and negotiate a new approach. Music Lord Have Mercy On Me by Mississippi Fred McDowell courtesy of The Association for Cultural Equity Turner and Hooch, Waves and Depths, Regrets, You Can’t Help Who You Love, Moving On, Change is a Foot, Distillery, Miner Changes by free feral For sound design sources as well as poems,...

Bill, Annie, and Annette step back and look at how hospitality and community service make a part of their inheritance. Music Country meet cute by free feral Albert and Wilmer by free feral Come on Down by free feral Jam with Cam 2 by Cameron Jones and free feral Jam with Cam by Cameron Jones and free feral You Can’t Help Who You Love by free feral Walk in the Parlor by Lucius Smith & Sid Hemph...

Annette heeds the call to return to the land and begins to dig into the Hill Country’s legacies. Music “deep down” by free feral “Jamma” by Cameron Jones and free feral “Gathering Speed” by Damian “Yella P” Pearson “Jumper on the line” by RL Burnside, courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity and Wixen “Foxfire” by Lightning Malcom, courtesy of the artist “History” by free feral “The Old Day...

Our host, free feral, sifts through memories of their father to find a connection to their hidden roots. Music: Ricochet, Smokestack, Waves and Depths, and Suite Maria written and performed by free feral “Gathering Speed” by Damion “Yella P” Pearson, recorded by muthi reed Abschied from Schwanengesang D957 by Franz Schubert, performed by Allen Bonet and Andrea Liguori For sound design sources as w...

Nestled upon 80 acres in the Mississippi Hill Country is a little family business called Foxfire Ranch. Keeping with the local traditions of Sunday night juke joints, the Hollowells have hosted Blues shows at Foxfire for nearly two decades; the land, however, has been in their family for more than a hundred years. For the last decade, Annette has been collaborating with her parents, Bill and Annie...