Thanks to John Shelton Reed for sharing the below music video about Lexington barbecue. Eat your heart out, MTV:
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Barbecue Any Old Time: Blues From the Pit 1927-1942
Posted on October 31, 2011 by Porky LeSwine
“In the early twentieth century, millions of Southerners moved from hardluck farms to the big cities of the North and West. As the Great Migration carried Southern barbecue to new locales, it did the same for Southern music.”* If BBQJew.com had a soundtrack, without a doubt it would be the terrific new barbecue-blues compilation album, “Barbecue Any Old [...]
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Barbecue Bob & The Piedmont Blues
Posted on September 16, 2011 by Porky LeSwine
Barbecue and tobacco go together like tobacco and blues, and through the transitive property barbecue and blues go together just as well. In fact, the history of blues music and barbecue are both intertwined with tobacco. While pig pickings were a traditional harvest time tradition in the country, blues musicians crowded urban tobacco auction sites [...]
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BBQ&A: Joe Kwon, Musician and (Food) Groupie
Posted on June 1, 2011 by Porky LeSwine
Joe Kwon is the high octane cellist (eat your heart out, Yo-Yo Ma) for the Avett Brothers, a North Carolina-based band that has steadily grown its reputation and commercial success over the past few years. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Avetts reached new levels of success following Kwon joining the band in 2007 [...]
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BBQ&A: Anoop Desai, Barbecue Hero and American Idol
Posted on September 8, 2010 by Porky LeSwine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumnus Anoop Desai is perhaps best known as the author of an undergraduate honors thesis in American Studies entitled Why Barbecue Matters in the South. The 60-page paper takes a scholarly look at southern culture through the grease-streaked lens of barbecue. “If one examines the Durkheimian paradigm in [...]
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By Golly, Barbecue and Hot Tamales
Posted on August 30, 2010 by Porky LeSwine
As the summer winds down, it’s high time for a road trip. After all, even Porky LeSwine can’t eat North Carolina barbecue at every meal. Sometimes he needs to eat barbecue from other states (and refer to himself in the third person). So strap on your computer’s seat belt and come along for a ride to [...]
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Hip Hop You Don’t Stop The BBQ Mop
Posted on August 25, 2010 by Porky LeSwine
When most people think of the music that best goes with barbecue, they undoubtedly name blues or bluegrass. But rap music may be a contender on the barbecue scene. Witness hip hop icon Snoop Dogg, who according to an incredibly uninformative article in the UK’s Mirror, is reported to be ”sniffing out a recipe to make his [...]
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Weekend Double Feature: Cuegrass & Fire
Posted on April 12, 2010 by Porky LeSwine
Looking for something pork-related to do this weekend? You have at least two good options. 1) The 14th annual Kings Mountain Firehouse Barbeque Cookoff. There are 35 teams confirmed to compete in the KCBS-sanctioned cookoff and more than twice that many confirmed judges… hmmm. 2) The 2nd annual North Carolina Cuegrass Festival at The Pit in downtown [...]
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Struttin’ with Some Barbecue
Posted on March 15, 2010 by Porky LeSwine
If you like barbecue and jazz (both southern delicacies for sure, though I prefer the former), you should familiarize yourself with the song, “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue.” It was first composed and recorded by none other than Louis “Brunswick Stewy” Armstrong. According to Allmusic.com, “Struttin’” has been recorded by dozens of artists since Armstrong’s original version under, appropriately enough, both the [...]
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Smokin Grooves and Hooves
Posted on April 3, 2009 by The Rib Rabbi
BBQ Jews don’t spend all of their time lusting after the divine swine. We have our diversions, too. Like finding barbecue music. On that note, there’s just something cool about a musician with a backing band called the Barbecue Swingers. Such is the case for Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers. But these cats don’t [...]
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