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CREEM carpetbags Its Way Through a Few Pith-Ant Observations on the South, Where They Always Say "Howdy...Boy..."

November 1, 1974
Lester Bangs

For any magazine to try to sum up a whole section of the country in a single issue, much less one article, would seem mighty presumptuous, The “South,” after all, consists of several regions wherein the customs vary: the Gulf Coast and Louisiana bayous, the Mississippi Delta, the Appalachians, etc, Nevertheless, we at CREEM are bored with glam, with rock chauvinism, with the narcissistic infatuation with being bored itself: we're excited about the music coming but of the South tight now, and plan to report on its vast and largely untapped resources extensively in ihe coming year. (Actually we were just looking for a new market to exploit after using up the trendies.)

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