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  • 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

  • Buzzard Dust: Aluminum — 62 Tracks, Nearly Two Hours of Appalachian Folk, Bluegrass & Dead Air The second full-length installment of the Buzzard Dust Mixtape series has arrived. Following Buzzard Dust: Copper, the project continues with Buzzard Dust: Aluminum — a bigger, stranger, and considerably longer entry in the series, running 62 tracks across one… 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

  • 📰 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. “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

  • 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

  • 🎬 “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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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