Listen on Spotify Mardi Gras here was totally different than the carnival, free-tits-and beer fest that was New Orleans. The tradition around here reflected the hardscrabble life that the earliest descendants in the region endured. It was a whole Catholic trip, wrapped up in poverty and revelry too. Masked riders would head out in bandsContinue reading “A Beer-Napkin Primer on Country Mardi Gras + A Complicated Story on Blackface”
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