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SoLost: Calli Jo, Tennessee Cowgirl

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SoLost was innocently driving through the hills of Southern Tennessee, having just come through the idyllic town of Franklin. Heading South and having turned down a side road, we caught sight of an abandoned shed and stopped to take some pictures. That's when a beautiful cowgirl wearing Daisy Dukes, a bikini and riding on horseback came sailing over the crest of the hill. This was very surprising. SoLost is not used to such sights. And what was even…

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    SoLost: Calli Jo, Tennessee Cowgirl

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    SoLost was innocently driving through the hills of Southern Tennessee, having just come through the idyllic town of Franklin. Heading South and having turned down a side road, we caught sight of an abandoned shed and stopped to take some pictures. That's when a beautiful cowgirl wearing Daisy Dukes, a bikini and riding on horseback came sailing over the crest of the hill. This was very surprising. SoLost is not used to such sights. And what was even…

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    SoLost: Automatic! (A Day at Weaver D's)

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    Athens (Georgia) culinary institution Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods was made famous when founder/owner/head chef Dexter Weaver's trademark slogan "Automatic for the People" was lovingly appropriated by Athens-based R.E.M. on its landmark 1992 album of the same name. Born in Athens, raised in Baltimore, and relocated back to Athens in the early 80's, "D," as he is known to his devoutly loyal followers, is a unique character. Barking "Automatic"…

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    SoLost: Yee Haw Industries

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    Letterpress printing maestros Kevin Bradley & Julie Belcher created Yee-Haw Industries in 1996 and have been covering America with unique, art-like products ever since. They opened up shop from a back-40 barn in Corbin, Kentucky, with salvaged, antique equipment previously put to rust. Their vibrant, folk art, wood cut prints of country music's classic stars, such as Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn, caught eyes and told stories. Handmade posters featured…

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    SoLost: Madame Lynn's Golden Slipper

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    Born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, and attending grade school in the 1950's, young Charles Lockhart was never like the other boys. He dressed and acted like a girl. Eventually becoming known as "Madame Lynn," she left Arkansas in the early 60's to dance (as a female) in well-known mob-owned nightclubs of Kansas City. After stints with several traveling circuses, Lynn went to dance in New Orleans and later to New York, where she danced at the legendary…

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    SoLost: Making Skillets at Lodge

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    America's only manufacturer of cast iron skillets is Lodge Manufacturing in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. Lodge has been operating since 1896. SoLost took a trip through their foundry... Producer / Director: Dave Anderson Photography Editing and Postproduction: Jonathan Childs Motion Graphics: TJ McCoy Music: Black Enterprise Executive Producer: Warwick Sabin SoLost is an Oxford American production. (c) 2010 The Oxford American Literary…

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    SoLost: Wayne White Goes Thrifting

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    Are iconoclasts normally cheerful and wry? Wayne White certainly is. The Chattanooga (well Hixson, really), Tennessee-born artist is the product of a feverishly-decorated-and-redecorated Southern home where boys played football and art-making was not what a boy should aspire to. A rebellious teen, White wisely put sports in the background, studied art at Middle Tennessee State University, then moved to New York City in 1979 to pursue his calling.…

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    SoLost: Rockabilly Legends Honor Billy Lee Riley at the Silver Moon Club

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    Legendary rockabilly frontman and session player Billy Lee Riley died this summer and was honored with a benefit concert at the equally-legendary Silver Moon Club in Newport, Arkansas, which lies along the newly-dubbed Rock'n' Roll Highway. Artists that performed at the show included many of his Sun Records labelmates as well as a host of other pioneers of rock music: Sonny Burgess and the Pacers, W.S. Holland (from Johnny Cash's and Carl Perkins'…

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    SoLost: Carmichael's Store

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    The Carmichael general store near Utica, Mississippi was opened in 1898 and run by three generations of Carmichael men until its closing in 2005. W.D Carmichael founded it in 1898; his son D.A. ran it from 1918-1945, and his son Harris Carmichael took it over and operated it for sixty years until his passing in 2005. A genuine time capsule, the decaying country store still draws the curiosity of passers-by and the affection of former customers years…

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The Oxford American introduces its new original video series, SoLost, which celebrates getting lost in the American South. SoLost is an off-kilter video journey through the side roads, backrooms, cellars and psyche of the modern South. With subjects prospected by master image-maker and Southern back-roads champ Dave Anderson, we delight in the tastes, sounds and myriad cultural delights of this our glorious landscape. Join

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The Oxford American introduces its new original video series, SoLost, which celebrates getting lost in the American South. SoLost is an off-kilter video journey through the side roads, backrooms, cellars and psyche of the modern South. With subjects prospected by master image-maker and Southern back-roads champ Dave Anderson, we delight in the tastes, sounds and myriad cultural delights of this our glorious landscape. Join us every month as we unveil a new episode of SoLost: artful, online video shorts that explore the complexity and vitality of the American South.

The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," and "The New Yorker of the South," it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992.

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