Tom Daniel discusses blues music, from the 2022 Abbeville Institute Summer School at Seabrook Island,…
Tom DanielSeptember 29, 2022
In a significant departure for this series, the 9th installment of What Makes This Musician…
Tom DanielSeptember 22, 2021
Freddy Fender? You mean that Mexican fella? No, I mean the Southern musical pioneer from…
Tom DanielSeptember 15, 2021
As I talk to people about American music and Southern music, I’ve noticed that many…
Tom DanielSeptember 8, 2021
The sixth Southern musician to be examined in this series of What Makes This Musician…
Tom DanielAugust 31, 2021
In this fifth installment of the series “What Makes This Musician Great,” we will travel…
Tom DanielAugust 25, 2021
In this third installment of the series “What Makes this Musician Great,” I will try…
Tom DanielAugust 11, 2021
This is the second installment of the series ‘What Makes this Musician Great,” and will…
Tom DanielAugust 4, 2021
Recently, I started looking into the connections between musical preferences and personality types. In the…
Tom DanielJuly 27, 2021
Sometimes, you need to go halfway around the world in order to make a point,…
Tom DanielMarch 31, 2021
I have written here before about my beloved hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama. Forgive me if…
Tom DanielMarch 8, 2021
If these were normal times, we’d all be unpacking our Mardi Gras gear right about…
Tom DanielFebruary 16, 2021
Rock ‘n Roll may be the most significant cultural export in American history. There is…
Tom DanielJanuary 27, 2021
In the late 19th century, Romantic composers were driven by nationalism as a means to…
Tom DanielDecember 4, 2020
When you hear the word “jazz,” what type of music pops into your head? What…
Tom DanielNovember 27, 2020
I have written here before about the history and mechanics of Sacred Harp singing, shape-notes,…
Tom DanielJuly 29, 2020
Hot 'Lanta - Allman Brothers Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSoo3bLhIc The typical standard jazz composition that would be…
Tom DanielMay 15, 2020
If you’ve come across some of the other things I’ve written for Abbeville, you might…
Tom DanielApril 24, 2019
I need to tell you one story in order to tell you another. The Czechoslovakian…
Tom DanielMarch 22, 2019
Why do Southerners continue to fall into that trap where we only talk about the…
Tom DanielDecember 14, 2018
“American Idol,” a reality-based music singing competition on the Fox Network, has come to an…
Tom DanielApril 11, 2016
For anyone with a casual knowledge about Alabama’s juicy and active history, the words “Tuskegee”…
Tom DanielMarch 7, 2016
As I watched my local Montgomery, Alabama news station this morning, I saw that question…
Tom DanielFebruary 1, 2016
Well, another year has come and gone that the Auburn Heritage Association did not invite…
Tom DanielOctober 16, 2015
As a teenager, I always loved Sydney J. Harris’ syndicated newspaper column called “Things I…
Tom DanielJuly 9, 2015
I used to always wonder if other Southern children were taught the same thing we…
Tom DanielMarch 23, 2015
I’m still a little chapped about that recent story from Chicago where it’s considered racist…
Tom DanielJanuary 9, 2015
Malcolm X once famously observed that the violence and racial strife in America was indicative…
Tom DanielDecember 29, 2014
I have written before here at Abbeville about the legendary music that came out of…
Tom DanielNovember 26, 2014
If you were to conjure up an image in your head of an exploitive, money-grubbing…
Tom DanielOctober 14, 2014
Scotland has certainly lit the fire under a lot of folks who are warming to…
Tom DanielSeptember 24, 2014
I think all of us have probably experienced this in one form or another. You’re…
Tom DanielSeptember 8, 2014
The Abbeville Institute is dedicated to promoting Southern culture, and doesn’t shed a single calorie…
Tom DanielAugust 27, 2014
My wife and I lived in Iowa during the mid-90’s, and we thoroughly enjoyed playing…
Tom DanielAugust 21, 2014
As I’ve mentioned before, my hometown is Tuskegee, Alabama, which is not famous because of…
Tom DanielAugust 1, 2014
It seems like every family is thankfully blessed with that one, highly motivated individual who…
Tom DanielJuly 21, 2014
About ten years ago, I was invited to participate in a cemetery tour in Auburn,…
Tom DanielJuly 16, 2014
I was killing time the other day in my office looking through human interest websites…
Tom DanielJuly 14, 2014
I’m afraid we may be looking at an upcoming generation of Southern children who don’t…
Tom DanielJuly 10, 2014
On April 4, 1964, The Beatles achieved American chart success that will almost certainly never…
Tom DanielJuly 7, 2014
Notwithstanding Ole Miss fans, those opening few bars of “Dixie” sends chills down the back…
Tom DanielJune 30, 2014
One of the unwritten great things about the South is our obsession with colorful nicknames.…
Tom DanielJune 19, 2014
You can count me out of the trendy Redneck Renaissance going on. I guess I’m…
Tom DanielJune 17, 2014
If I ever got started writing about Southern good manners, I’m not sure I could…
Tom DanielJune 12, 2014
They say that writing is good for the soul, and my soul needs something good.…
Tom DanielMay 27, 2014
They say that writing is good for the soul, and my soul needs something good.…
Tom DanielMay 27, 2014
In a recent Abbeville blog, I wrote about the correct pronunciation of the racetrack located…
Tom DanielMay 22, 2014
In a recent Abbeville blog, I wrote about the correct pronunciation of the racetrack located…
Tom DanielMay 22, 2014
About ten years ago, one of my colleagues suggested to me that Americans listen to…
Tom DanielMay 19, 2014
About ten years ago, one of my colleagues suggested to me that Americans listen to…
Tom DanielMay 19, 2014
Twenty years ago this Spring, I lost the greatest friend I never met, Lewis Grizzard.…
Tom DanielMay 13, 2014
Yankees don’t understand the Southern obsession with college football, and if they don’t understand it,…
Tom DanielMay 8, 2014
Although I’m not a mountain man, and I would never dare call myself smart enough…
Tom DanielMay 1, 2014
Have you ever wondered about that cryptic third verse of “Sweet Home Alabama?” The music…
Tom DanielApril 29, 2014
Grits can simultaneously be both an item of pride and an item of derision. On…
Tom DanielApril 24, 2014
Here’s another one of those things about our lives controlled by Yankees – ice quantity.…
Tom DanielApril 17, 2014
I decided to rank my own favorite Top Southern Rock Bands with some added personal…
Tom DanielApril 15, 2014
Lately, I've been doing a lot of thinking about Southern Rock, which is something very…
Tom DanielApril 11, 2014
We Southerners know a little bit about music. “American Idol,” for those who haven’t watched,…
Tom DanielApril 8, 2014
“Watch what you’re doing – you never know who’s watching you.” I can still hear…
Tom DanielApril 4, 2014
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