Episodes 145
Avg. Duration 3m
Activity Active
Since Jul 2022
Latest Episode May 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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60%
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About This Podcast

Salvation South editor Chuck Reece comments on Southern culture and values in a weekly segment that airs Fridays on GPB Radio. Salvation South is an online magazine inspired by hope, healing and — most importantly — the desire to create a place on the web and a community of people where civil conversation can happen. We celebrate the culture of the South, and discuss issues of importance to our region.

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Recent Episodes

Deluxe: When the Place You Come From Is Gone

May 20, 2026 28m

What happens when the place that made you who you are vanishes completely? Writer Tracy Thompson and poet Annie Woodford share stories of Southern landscapes lost to progress——and the particular…

Ted Turner, Walking Contradiction

May 12, 2026 3m

Since the death of Atlanta media mogul Ted Turner, outlets all over the world have broadcast accounts of his giant ambitions, his creation of the twenty-four-hour news cycle in which we all live…

Mama's Letters

May 05, 2026 3m

On Sunday, families all over Georgia will celebrate Mother’s Day, taking moms out to brunch and buying presents. Others, whose mothers are no longer with them, will sift through memories. The mother…

Who Makes the South’s Best Biscuit?

Apr 22, 2026 3m

During this pledge week, GPB has been asking our listeners, “Who has the best biscuits in Georgia?” Hundreds of you have put your answers on social media, but we haven’t seen anything close to a…

“Can I Fix You Something?”: Love, Loss, and The Irish Goodbye

Apr 15, 2026 39m

Salvation South Deluxe sits down with Beth Ann Fennelly—poet, novelist, and inventor of the “micro‑memoir”—to talk about her latest book, ‘The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs.’ In a conversation that…

Pollenocalypse

Apr 08, 2026 3m

This is the time of year in Georgia when, after every rain, the puddles left behind are yellow, thanks to an abundance of pine pollen. Some people sneeze at the pollen, some people curse at the…

Deluxe: Word of South - See What Happens

Mar 18, 2026 37m

A city‑hall slush fund, a dissenting vote, and a rainy weekend in Tallahassee accidentally created Word of South, the South’s most unlikely laboratory for music and literature. In this episode of…

Breakfast at the H&H

Mar 04, 2026 3m

Last week, Salvation South editor Chuck Reece delivered a lecture at Mercer University’s Center for Southern Studies in Macon. The next morning, he had breakfast at the H&H, a restaurant that’s…

Deluxe: Abe Partridge and the Weight of Southern Faith

Feb 18, 2026 51m

As a young, fiery pastor in a crater town in Kentucky, Abe Partridge thought he had finally found the rock to build his life on. Then his faith collapsed, and his ministry went with it. In this…

Is New Orleans the Real Home of Mardi Gras?

Feb 11, 2026 3m

What is the biggest party in the South? Some say it happens every year in Jacksonville, Fla., learning up to the annual Georgia/Florida football game. But really, the biggest party in the South — and…

When Snow Was a Dream, Not a Nightmare

Jan 28, 2026 3m

This past weekend’s widespread storms, which dumped tons of snow and ice on states from New Mexico to New England, proved deadly for some and paralyzing for thousands of communities, including every…

Deluxe: From Muscle Shoals to Colbert - Patterson Hood and "Decoration Day"

Jan 21, 2026 44m

Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers sits on the Salvation South porch to remember Muscle Shoals, Gregory Dean “The Living Bubba” Smalley, Jason Isbell’s “Outfit,” The Definitive Decoration Day,…

Georgia On Everyone's Mind

Jan 06, 2026 3m

The official song of the state of Georgia—Hoagy Carmichael’s “Georgia on My Mind”—came into the public domain on January first, ninety-five years after the song was written. Salvation South editor…

Best of 2025 Commentaries (Part 2 of 2)

Dec 31, 2025 23m

As the year comes to a close, we bring you this special episode of Salvation South, where we take a look back on our most popular commentaries aired by GPB Radio in 2025. (Part 2 of 2)

Best of 2025 Commentaries (Part 1 of 2)

Dec 24, 2025 23m

As the year comes to a close, we bring you this special episode of Salvation South, where we take a look back on our most popular commentaries aired by GPB Radio in 2025. (Part 1 of 2)

Deluxe: Southern Noir Giants - Ace Atkins Meets S.A. Cosby

Dec 17, 2025 46m

Southern noir meets 1980s Atlanta. In this Salvation South Deluxe episode, Southern crime-fiction stars S.A. Cosby and Ace Atkins dig into "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" Atkins’s Cold War…

Steve Cropper: Southern Soul Legend

Dec 09, 2025 3m

A week ago, the world mourned the passing Steve Cropper, a key figure in Southern soul music. Cropper was the guitar player in Booker T. & the MG’s, who were the house band at the legendary Stax…

Ways of Saying Grace

Nov 25, 2025 3m

Tomorrow, families all over Georgia will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving. At most of those tables, someone will say grace over the meal. There are probably as many ways to bless the food on a…

Deluxe: Meanwhile In North Alabama - The Muscle Shoals Sound

Nov 19, 2025 33m

Discover how Muscle Shoals, Alabama, became the unlikely birthplace of legendary music by Aretha, the Stones, and more.

Southern Life on Planet OutKast

Nov 11, 2025 3m

When the Atlanta hip-hop superstars OutKast were inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame, it was more than a celebration of the immense talent of Antwan “Big Boi” Patton and André “3000”…

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