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  • Mad Mechanics: The Liberty Overalls

    Mad Mechanics: The Liberty OverallsEpisode 10.4Written by: Emmitt OwensAs narrated by: Waylon Waylon, Intro: “Well now, folks, let me tell you about the day Derek Pemberton returned and learned that insurance mathematics don’t account for stubbornness, Reedus discovered the transformative power of forty-five dollar workwear, and the whole shop learned that sometimes the funniest thing… Read more

  • Northwest Alabama’s Independent Musicians Are Making a Scene of Their Own

    Northwest Alabama’s Independent Musicians Are Making a Scene of Their Own Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Russellville, and the surrounding Tennessee Valley — September 2026 When people outside Northwest Alabama hear the words “Muscle Shoals,” they usually think about the past — legendary recording studios, session musicians, soul records, Southern rock, and the long list of… Read more

  • Northwest Alabama Music News: The Music Is Still Being Made

    Northwest Alabama Music News: The Music Is Still Being Made September 2026 — Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and the surrounding Tennessee Valley If you live in Northwest Alabama, you don’t have to look far to find music. It might be coming from a stage in downtown Florence, a bar in Muscle Shoals, a community… Read more

  • Mic Check

    Mic CheckBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #12092020) Deshawn Bell had a system.   Every Thursday night, he’d walk the six blocks from his mama’s apartment to Rooster’s, the karaoke bar on Fenwick and 9th that let him in even though he’d only just turned nineteen, because the owner, Miss Odell, liked that he tipped the bartender in quarters… Read more

  • BREAKING: THE BUZZARD DUST EXPERIMENT APPEARS TO BE WORKING

    📰 BUZZARD NEWS BREAKING: THE BUZZARD DUST EXPERIMENT APPEARS TO BE WORKING By: emmittowens.com Staff – August 17, 2026 There comes a point in every experiment where you stop, look at the equipment, and say: “Well hell… I think this thing is actually working.” That’s where we’re at with Buzzard Dust. When this started, there… 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

  • From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Rapper

    The Buzzard Times From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Wrapper Florence, Ala. — There was a time when he packed heat. Mixtapes. Albums. Hard rhymes. Loaded pistols. Hard attitude. He wasn’t arranging anything. He was moving units. He spoke like a man who believed nobody could touch him,… Read more

  • Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Opens Submissions to Independent & AI Songwriters — and Appalachian Storytellers

    The Buzzard Times Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Opens Submissions to Independent & AI Songwriters — and Appalachian Storytellers By Staff Reporter BUZZARD ROOST, Ala. — If you’ve been writing songs and wondering where they belong, Buzzard Dust Mixtapes may have the answer. The independent mixtape series is now accepting music submissions from songwriters, musicians, and even… Read more

  • Behind the Project: Why Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Became What It Was Always Meant to Be

    Behind the Project: Why Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Became What It Was Always Meant to Be By EmmittOwens.com Staff Every music project starts with an idea. Buzzard Dust Mixtapes started with a question: What if every small town had its own soundtrack? But the story begins much earlier. I’ve been writing since 1999. It started as… Read more

  • Buzzard Dust Mixtapes: One Man’s Mission to Build America’s Largest Independent Appalachian Mixtape Network

    By EmmittOwens.com Staff In an era where independent musicians often chase viral trends, one project is taking a slower, more unconventional path—one rooted in regional identity, storytelling, and the culture of small-town America. Buzzard Dust Mixtapes is an independent music project focused on Southern, Appalachian, bluegrass, folk, country, and Americana-inspired music. Rather than operating as… Read more