'Garden & Gun' offers Southern comfort
Posted on Mon Jan 4 2010
About 10 years ago, I fell in love with everything Southern. I blame my favorite band, Son Volt, for this. For those of you who don't know me, I have several cowboy shirts in my weekly clothing repertoire; I have a giant collection of alt-country, country rock and roots albums and memorabilia; and I enjoy eating barbecue most of all foods. So, of course, one of my favorite magazines of late has been Garden & Gun, which provides a hefty helping of life below the Mason/Dixon line—including great past features on supper clubs (after reading it, I wanted to start my own!), the best Southern rockers (there was a fabulous feature recently on Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams and her poet father) and, of course, hunting, shooting and everything gun-related. (I must admit, I'm not a gun owner, but I've had a hankering to be a hunter for a long time.) You might think, for a native New Yorker, this taste would seem out of place, but give this 'zine a good read and you'll know exactly what I'm getting at.
—Posted by Will Levith
