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Emmitt Owens

Buzzard Dust Mixtapes

  • WALK — When You’ve Been Lost, Broken, and Still Choose to Go Home

    WALK A song about faith, regret, love, and finding your way home. There are songs you listen to. And then there are songs that find a piece of you that you’ve been carrying quietly for years. “Walk” is one of those songs. Performed by Byron Pelson and written by Emmitt Owens, this song isn’t trying… Read more

  • Backwoods Shit: A Song From Somewhere Down in the Hollow

    Backwoods Shit: A Song From Somewhere Down in the Hollow Some roads ain’t on no map. Some songs probably shouldn’t be on the radio. “Backwoods Shit” is the latest transmission from the fictional world of Buzzard Dust: Aluminum, supposedly recorded somewhere deep in the hills around Lost Creek, Alabama (Near Crooked Oak, Alabama), by a… Read more

  • Transmitter from the Shitter

    Transmitter from the ShitterA tale outta Churntown, Alabama I. The Man, The Myth, The Outhouse   Now Rusty Eaton had wrote him four hundred and twelve songs, and he knowed it exact, on account of he numbered every last one in Sharpie marker on the inside of the outhouse door, right up next to his cousin… Read more

  • The Long Habit of Making Things: A Profile of Emmitt Owens

    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

  • Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: I’m Building an Empire I Keep Telling You Isn’t Real

    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

  • The Froggies – Ice Cold Beer 🍺 | Official Music Video | Buzzard Dust: Aluminum

    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

  • More Than a Name: The Forgotten History Behind “Buzzard Dust”

    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

  • THE RETURN OF BUZZARD DUST MIXTAPES

    🚨 THE RETURN OF BUZZARD DUST MIXTAPES 🚨 After years of silence, Buzzard Dust Mixtapes is back. If you remember the original Buzzard Dust Colored albums, you’ll immediately notice something has changed. This isn’t rap. 🔥 This is a complete reimagining of the project… What began years ago as short, ten minute experimental releases has… Read more

  • No, Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Isn’t Rap—And That’s Exactly the Point

    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

  • Buzzard Dust Mixtapes – Derrick Mobley “Alabama” Lyrics

    Derrick Mobley – “Alabama”Written by: Emmitt OwensBuzzard Dust: Nickel [Verse 1]Red clay risin’, morning on the pines,Whippoorwill singin’ where the river winds.Dust on my boots, but Heaven knows my name—AlabamaAlabamaAlabamaAlabama [Verse 2]Front porch light where the old folks pray,Fields turn gold at the end of the day.No matter where I roam, my heart’ll say—AlabamaAlabamaAlabamaAlabama Read more