Funeral in the South: A Journey of Family, Faith, Friends and Food for the Soul

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About the Work: Funeral in the South A non-fiction work, it is a poetic memoir and brutally honest account of family and culture, an unspoken and internal search for emotional survival and spiritual peace. Funeral, is Brown's Dixie-based account of the journey of life, along the swampy, tobacco roads of the Carolinas, and one family as well as one man's discovery of its authentic self. An authentic southern tale of laying the past to rest... and the amazing grace that got them Home.

john hound' brown. Born into the chaos of the late '60s and torn between the unyielding philosophies of the Bible Belt, the spirituality of the Civil Rights movement, and the idealism of the hippie culture, John Hound Brown is a Nashville-based musician/singer-songwriter/satirist/author. He has toured, written, and recorded with national country acts since 1993 including the Zac Brown Band, John Berry, Susie Bogguss, Billy Dean and more. Career highlights include numerous album credits as a musician and writer, including a Grammy winner, a full length musical, The Bell Witch, and three indie albums/EPs: Next of Kin, Plowology-Stompin' Grounds and Rolling Smoke. All are available on iTunes. Brown co-penned the Joe Nichols Universal title-track, Real Things in '07, and his literary work was featured in the Zac Brown Band folk art/cookbook Southern Grounds in 2010. Brown is heavily influenced by artists such as Jackson Browne, the Allman Brothers Band, Darrell Scott, Rodney Crowell and Guy Clark, Mark Twain, Lyle Lovett and Randy Newman along with authors Rick Bragg, Pat Conroy, Faulkner, Hemingway, and of course, GOD and the Bible. A frequent guest on the syndicated radio show the BIG SHOW with JOHN BOY and BILLY --- Hound continues to write, perform, and spread what he calls, the Gospel of BBQ.