Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of Closed Ranks and I Just Make People Up, and the editor of Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore.

Dirty Boots: Drivin’ N Cryin’ @ Saturn Birmingham
November 2024

Dirty Boots: 1994
November 2024

Lollapalooza ’92
August 2022

Reading: Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia by Gordon Lamb
October 2020

Dirty Boots: Before some ol’ fool come around here
November 2019

“And he said, ‘My name’s Johnny and it might be a sin . . .”
October 2019

Dirty Boots: Ken Burns’ “Country Music”
October 2019

“The Source for Some Definitive”: 30 Years since “Closer to Fine”
April 2019

Dirty Boots: “For What It’s Worth”
January 2019

Dirty Boots: Adia Victoria @ Saturn Birmingham
September 2016

Listening: Margo Price’s Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
August 2016

Listening: Sturgill Simpson’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
April 2016

Dirty Boots: What’s New in Old School
February 2016

Dirty Boots: The “There’s Hope for This Generation’s Music” Playlist
December 2014

“Panic On!”
November 2012

10 Albums for a Desert Island
March 2011