My favorite things Georgian
The state that is, not the country.
Music: I’ll go with Otis Redding, who was born in Georgia and played in Macon early in his career. Favorite song: Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song). Here is the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Most underrated might be the acoustic bluesman Pink Anderson. And I still have guilty sympathies for pop musician Tommy Roe ("Dizzy," "Sweet Pea," "Sheila").
Literature: Here is a list, I will go with Flannery O’Connor or the poetry of James Dickey.
Cinema: Speaking of James Dickey, this one is a no-brainer, I can’t believe my parents let me see this when I was eleven or so, but I thank them.
Artist: No, Georgia O’Keefe doesn’t count. Most of the ouevre of Outsider Artist Howard Finster is churned-out junk, but his early work was excellent. This painting isn’t bad either, or try here. It was, however, a mistake when he finished 67 paintings in one weekend while visiting Wake Forest University.
Architecture: I am very fond of this kind of Savannah house, if only because it reminds me of Haiti. For my modernist readers, this is from Atlanta.
Addendum: Hey, did I forget James Brown? The hotel TV in the background notes he is from Augusta…