Southern Say-So: Essays from a Southern Life

This is where I set my stories down — music and memory, gospel and grease, fame and family, and the true costs of carrying a song down the highway. I write about the South I know and the people I meet, the legends and the nobodies, the backroads and the backbeats.

If there’s something worth saying, you’ll find it here.

A Return to Georgia
Cindi Brown Cindi Brown

A Return to Georgia

After two decades out West, Cindi Brown returns to her Georgia roots—and to herself. In this Porchlight essay, she reflects on small-town rhythms, neighborly kindness, and the soulful quiet of a country house on the edge of town.

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