Unhand The Monster

A staggering lineage of folk music enthusiasts and documentarians have paved the way for Texas Monthly writer John Nova Lomax: a complicated, uncompromising, ball-peen hammer of a man. John gets passionate when discussing the legitimacy of certain pieces of music, so when he visits Ferrill's house in Mobile (after something of a long, spiritual journey), he speaks of the necessity of regional music, and how it paints the all-important portrait of a city, a town, or a neighborhood...