Music

  • πŸ“° 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 Some roads ain’t on no map. Some songs probably shouldn’t be on the radio. β€œBackwoods 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

  • The Buzzard Times From Packing Heat to Packaging Bath Salts: The Strange Career Evolution of a Wrapper Florence, Ala. β€” 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

  • The Buzzard Times Buzzard Dust Mixtapes Opens Submissions to Independent & AI Songwriters β€” and Appalachian Storytellers By Staff Reporter BUZZARD ROOST, Ala. β€” 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 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

  • By EmmittOwens.com Staff In an era where independent musicians often chase viral trends, one project is taking a slower, more unconventional pathβ€”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

  • Flossin’ (With Welding Wire)A Multisyllabic, Whimsy, Stream of Consciousness RhymeBy:Emmitt Owens(Index #01032026) [Verse 1]In the age of alarm clocks, I missed the cueHit snooze on myself, let the weird come throughStatic in my bloodstream, dial-up soulTryna download peace on a cracked flip phone Pajama-pants swagger, Jordans feel newSlingin’ spaghetti out the window of my confused… Read more

  • SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume IV (1950-1970)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owen(Index #11032025 – 11062025) ─────────────────────────────── LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€β”€     This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary.    It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use… Read more

  • Unbreakable Spirits, Robin Songs, and Childhood Fears    The clock had just struck ten on this Friday night at Chill n’Fill, and the weekend energy was already crackling through the air like electricity before a storm. Behind me, tonight’s painting had appeared as Norman Rockwell’s “Saying Grace” from 1951, that tender scene of a grandmother… Read more

  • Bob’s Great Hot Dog Roller Caper Β Β  I arrived for my Tuesday shift at Chill n’Fill to find Bob crouched behind the counter like a surgeon preparing for the operation of a lifetime, surrounded by what appeared to be the dismantled remains of our hot dog roller. Tools I’d never seen before were spread across… Read more