Jim Wilson

Scott Owens

Baynard Woods

Michael Knight

Chuck Jones

George Singleton

Shari Smith

Susan Cushman

Greg Herren

Wendy Reed

Judith Richards

Suzanne Hudson

Jennifer Horne

Jennifer Paddock

Chuck Cannon

Ed Southern

Joe Formichella

Lari White

Michael Reno Harrell

Bev Marshall

Marlin Barton

Janet Nodar

The first Shoe Burnin' occurred on a cold winter's night years ago in Alabama. When the firewood ran out, a box of old shoes provided the assembled group of friends and artists with the fuel they needed to stock the hearth and share stories and songs late into the night. The bond forged that night began a tradition of fireside Shoe Burnin's. Naturally, many of the stories and songs involved shoes -- the places they've been and the people who wore them. Now, for the first time, these works have been collected in The Shoe Burnin', Stories of Southern Soul. The hardcover book includes a companion CD of spoken word and music that captures the Southern soul.

Stories of Southern Soul

The Shoe Burnin'

Sixteen-year-old Mary Catherine Henry (nicknamed Mare) has endured sexual abuse by her father, abandonment by her mother, and neglect while in the care of dysfunctional foster parents, and she becomes a runaway in Macon, Georgia. An artist, Mare begins to decorate abandoned buildings and the local Catholic Church with colorful, sometimes controversial, graffiti that she signs with Cherry Bomb. A Rolling Stone photographer, a Macon newspaper reporter, and the local Catholic priest gain her trust and help her to obtain a scholarship at the Savannah College of Art & Design, where she and her mentor, the painter Elaine de Kooning, come to terms with their repressed pasts.

A Novel

Cherry Bomb

Susan Cushman

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