This is where the Southern Highlands of America buck dances with the "Motherland" - big ole Africa... Yesterday, today & tomorrow.
Worldwide, Hollers, Nooks & Crannies, Appalachian Old-Time music, Afro-Beats, Hillbilly Blues, Country & Eastern, Banjo & Fiddle tunes, Xalam & Kora improv, Griots bills paid in full, Boubon & Highlife, Mento Breakdowns, Oud laments, Field Recordings from the darkest basements, Holler Dub & Jungle Mixes, Self-determination & Sustainable designs, Finger picking guitars from Eastern Kentucky & East Africa.....
If you want to dance, someone's got to pay the fiddler! But, its more bang for the buck...
Speaking in tongues on AM stations, Melungeon free jazz at its best... You pick your spirit & let it take hold.

Talking, Thinking, Laughter. We've sweet potatoe pie, grits & greens, Palm wine, corn or 9 bars of single origin espresso cafe to drink - your pick, plus cultural rants & world geographies for the timid & strong alike..

Brother Eph McDowell - Xill...

Brother Eph lives a border free existence between the Country & the Urban, the West & the Eastern - The TRANSFRONTIER, the space where borderlands remix "it" up, what the drivers of big money, power & control bombard the masses with, a sense of the "normal", a craving for more, consuming to belong - this is all denied as a reality here on the Transfrontiers... Loretta Lynn CDs in oud shops, Sanaa, Yemen. Grandpa Jones & Red Solvine on department store shelves, Koror, Palau. Johnny Cash on Trenchtown sound systems. Jim Reeves songbooks in Indian-owned stationary shops, Arusha, Tanzania.... Country & Eastern sounds give way for the Xillbilli Mau-Mao Nº1 Sound System. The hillbilly sound in the world at large, from participant observations & experiences - the world view of a hillbilly banjo playing transfrontiersman - that's me - Brother Eph......... VISIT THE XILLBILLI MAU-MAO myspace site @ www.myspace.com/ ephraimmcdowellxillbilli & www.youtube.com/profile?user=XillbilliKat