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Jesse Winchester, Southern Regionalist, RIP

Jesse Winchester, a tuneful poet from a small corner of southern America who had to flee America--at a time when it was going through one of its more invasively imperial stages--to find…
Russell Arben Fox
April 12, 2014

Jesse Winchester, a tuneful poet from a small corner of southern America who had to flee America–at a time when it was going through one of its more invasively imperial stages–to find his voice passed away yesterday. Anyone who knows the work of The Band or Reba McEntire or Jimmy Buffett needs no introduction to the story of this greatly talented and mostly ignored songwriter; for everyone else, check out his work in these two clips, and ponder what great voices emerge from little places:

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Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox is a Front Porch Republic Contributing Editor. He grew up milking cows and baling hay in Spokane Valley, WA, but now lives in Wichita, KS, where he runs the History & Politics and the Honors programs at Friends University, a small Christian liberal arts college. He aspires to write a book about the theory and practice of democracy, community, and environmental sustainability in small to mid-sized cities, like the one he has made his and his family’s home; his scribblings pertaining to that and related subjects are collected at the Substack “Wichita and the Mittelpolitan.” He also blogs–irregularly and usually at too-great a length–more broadly about politics, philosophy, religion, socialism, bicycling, books, farming, pop music, and whatever else strikes his fancy, at “In Medias Res.”

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