About Me
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The Long Habit of Making Things: A Profile of Emmitt Owens In 1999, Emmitt Owens was recording songs on a five-dollar microphone connected to a Windows 98 computer, using FruityLoops to build tracks in whatever room of the house happened to be free. He released the material under a home operation he called Plizaya Productions,… Read more
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Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: I’m Building an Empire I Keep Telling You Isn’t Real The independent music circuit is full of self-proclaimed “moguls” buying plastic trophies and inflating their stream counts to project an illusion of global stardom. I’ve decided to do the opposite. I’m building a sprawling musical empire out here in… Read more
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🎬 “Tweaker Energy” — A.W. Carter Releases New Music Video Sometimes one little project turns into ten. And sometimes Granny ends up dancing in the garage at 3 AM. A new music video has arrived for “Tweaker Energy” by A.W. Carter, from Buzzard Dust: Copper, written by Emmitt Owens. The song is a fast-moving country… Read more
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Abraham Morris – Count Them If You Can | Official Lyric Video | Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: Copper ⭐ “Count Them If You Can” by Abraham Morris From Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: CopperTrack 9Written by Emmitt OwensIndex #02092024 Inspired by Genesis 15, Count Them If You Can reflects on the moment when God led Abraham outside and… Read more
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The Froggies – Ice Cold Beer 🍺 | Official Music Video | Buzzard Dust: Aluminum 🍺 “Ice Cold Beer” by The FroggiesFrom the upcoming album Buzzard Dust: Aluminum Written by Emmitt OwensBuzzard Dust: AluminumIndex #07132026 Pull up a stump, crack open a cold one, and spend a few minutes with The Froggies—Buzzard Dust Mixtapes’ favorite… Read more
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The Buzzard Times More Than a Name: The Forgotten History Behind “Buzzard Dust” By Staff Reporter BUZZARD ROOST, Ala. — To many people, the phrase “Buzzard Dust” sounds like something made up for a band name. According to Appalachian folklore, it wasn’t. Long before it became the title of an independent music project, buzzard dust… Read more
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The Buzzard Times No, Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Isn’t Rap—And That’s Exactly the Point By Staff Reporter BUZZARD ROOST, Ala. — Every so often someone stumbles across the name Buzzard Dust Mixtapes and assumes it’s another rap project. The Buzzard Dust crew says that couldn’t be further from the truth. While the original Buzzard Dust Mixtapes… Read more
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Moses Windwood – Count Them If You CanBy: Emmitt OwensBuzzard Dust: Copper (W-D-A-R, Dead Air Radio)(Index #02192026) Old man, older wife, a promise cracked the math wide open,Desert night gone cold and quiet, fire burned down to a coal.He’d learned to live on less and less, stopped hoping, stopped the reaching,Then a voice split through… Read more
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Mad Mechanics: A Pisces With Blue EyesWritten by: Emmitt OwensAs narrated by: Waylon(Index #05282026) Waylon, Intro: “Well now, folks, gather close, because this here is the story of how a man who hadn’t caught anything meaningful in six years went down to a creek on a Tuesday morning in April with a pole, a half-eaten… Read more
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50 Days and Foreverfor the one Providence cast toward me… Day One · The Water Before I knew you, I knew the river …the hush of current, the patience of the line,how a man learns to wait on something greaterthan himself. Then you stood at the water’s edgeand I forgot I was waiting at… Read more
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