NEWS The last surviving member of The Maddox Brothers and Rose, known as “the most colorful hillbilly band in America,” has died, reports the Mail Tribune in Ashland, Oregon. Don Maddox, 98, died September 12 in Ashland. His sharecropper family migrated from Alabama to Modesto, California, in 1933. His siblings—Cal, Fred, Rose, and Harry—began performing […]
By Jared Bibler During the global financial crisis of 2008, the three largest banks in Iceland failed within days of each other: Glitner on October 6, Landsbanki on October 7, and Kaupping on October 9. Iceland’s Secret: The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con—part memoir, part investigative journalism—chronicles the financial collapse, the history of […]
IN THE SPOTLIGHT – DOUG STONE I’d been waiting for an opportunity to spotlight Doug Stone in my newsletter ever since his show in Sisseton almost two years ago. Our conversation finally happened when he called me on one of his days devoted to doing phone interviews.