In this episode of Otis Brown Podcast, I recall a street preacher of some renowned and my evening commute with him on the train. I also think about Thomas Hart Benton, Jackson Pollock and the general impulse of American Art.
I hope you enjoy it.
The title for this week's podcast is an allusion to the Adam Carroll's song, "Black Flag Blues." Carroll is, in my opinion, a criminally under-appreciated songwriter--check him out!
Rattlesnake Preachers and Doomsday Signs
Some of the cultural references made in this episode:
Adam Carroll. “Black Flag Blues”
Thomas Hart Benton. A Social History of Indiana. Arts of Life in America
NAACP. “An Art Commentary on Lynching”
Grant Wood. American Gothic
Jackson Pollock. Blue Poles
Mark Rothko
William Faulkner
Eudora Welty
“Ralph the Wolf and Sam the Sheepdog”
