Sweet Southern Comfort

Buddy Jewell | Format: MP3 Download
From the Album Buddy Jewell

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• Original Release Date: July 1, 2003
• Label: Columbia
• Copyright: (P) 2003 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
• Duration: 3:32 minutes
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• ASIN: B00137T88Y
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,458 Paid in MP3 Songs (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Songs)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Try it When Driving Through Rural Alabama, January 13, 2012

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I grew up in the fifties and sixties, and I must admit, with kind of a sour attitude about the South, gained from watching t.v. and seeing the cops turn the dogs on the civil rights marchers.

But some fourteen years ago, my daughter and her husband moved to Florida and gave me the chance to re-visit the way I feel about the country below the Mason-Dixon Line. As a yankee, I try to visit them down there two or three times a year, and about every third summertime trip, I drive down, a journey of some 1,400 miles throug the heart of Dixie. The first time I did that...eleven years ago, when my grandaughter was born...I was absolutely awe-struck by the physical beauty of the South. And I've also come to admire the people and the culture. A few years ago, I went down to attend the Daytona 500 with the kids. There were maybe 200,000 other folks who came to see it with us that day, and even though it seemed like most of them drank beer most of the time, it was one of the most courteous, well-behaved outdoor event crowds I've ever experienced. You could take your twelve-year-old daughter and never have to worry about her hearing words you'd prefer she didn't. As I told my son-in-law at the end of the day, "Their mommas taught 'em manners" and they really did.

As I've spent more time in the South, I've come to realize that there's definitely something that goes on down there that has to do with family, traditions, and gentility. Also, a kind of sweet nostalgia that hangs over especially the small towns of the region, just about all of which have a statue of a horse-mounted civil war veteran right in the center of town. If that war - the "War of Northern Agression" to many southerners - was indeed the defining event in this nation's history, you can't ignore the fact that it was mostly fought, and lost, in the South, seeming to leave there a sort of tinge of regret all these years later.

Buddy Jewell's song, for me at least, seems to capture all of that. On my next-to-last driving trip to Florida, I played the song driving through southern rual Alabama, listening with un-ashamed tears running down my cheeks.

Indeed, Sir, carry on.