Books
deep run roots, 2017
2017 IACP Award Winner in 4 Categories:
• Cookbook of the Year Award
• Julia Child First Book Award
• Chefs & Restaurants Award
• General Award
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‘Deep Run Roots,’ reviewed, Washington Post: A Southern chef and TV star brings on the charm
"One of my favorite recipes in Vivian Howard’s new cookbook, “Deep Run Roots” (Little Brown), is one I will probably never make."
Publisher's Weekly review: "On the heels of her Peabody award–winning PBS show, A Chef’s Life, restaurateur Howard (Chef and The Farmer) shares personal stories and 240 recipes inspired by fare from her hometown of Deep Run, N.C., in this outstanding debut."
All the Blues Gone, 1996
All the Blues Gone
by Rex Miller
The delta of the Mississippi river is the origin of traditional blues-- harmonicas, guitars and voices that cry of sorrow and tribulation. yet as the river flows relentlessly south, the blues and its musicians have moved north and beyond, creating such tributaries as Chicago blues, Rock and Roll, Jazz and Rap. All the Blues Gone returns to the source, giving the world a treasured musical legacy from the soul of African-American culture.
in the tradition of the great folklorist Alan Lomax, photographer Rex Miller has worked years in Mississippi, building an intimate picture of Delta musicians, their lives shaped by generations of farm work, from slavery through sharecropping through the inner-city problems that have now come to rural Mississippi.
All the Blues Gone is not a catalog of musical history. it is a glimpse into the culture and traditions that created this music, as seen through the lives of some of its practitioners.
Miller’s dramatic photographs honor the vitality of Delta life-- the cotton fields where blues began as hollers and chants; the porches where blues deepened in the cool of evenings; the juke joints where blues wail until morning; the infamous Parchman Penitentiary where blues live in fear and loneliness.
Here are the men and women who have local fame and national obscurity--John Hurt, Jr., son of Mississippi John Hurt; Roosevelt “booba” barnes, James “Son” Thomas and Ms. Z.l. Hill, delta legends who have recently passed away.
All the Blues Gone is part of a multimedia exhibition that has toured galleries, museums, universities, festivals and performance spaces nationally and overseas. The exhibition is comprised of
- photographic murals (framed in wood from a sharecropper’s shack) - a CD soundtrack of music and storytelling
- an installation of projected images w/soundtrack
- educational programming
All the Blues Gone
Photographed, written and produced by Rex Miller; Produced by RexPix Media
Out of print: To purchase a signed copy from the author ($60), send an email to rexpixfilm@earthlink.net