This limited-run poster of our latest issue cover features “My butterfly year” by Dianna Settles, a Vietnamese-American artist from Atlanta. Her paintings trace “relationships to nature, autonomy, self-sufficiency, protest, work, and the solitude necessary for being amongst others.” Supplies are limited so grab this collector’s item today!

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’TIL THE DAY I DIE: BUD WELCH

’Til the Day I Die is a visual exploration of gospel and the blues, shot on Super 8mm film. Leo “Bud” Welch is an 84-year-old Mississippi bluesman who has spent most of his difficult life working on farms, cutting down trees by chainsaw, and living in a one room shack in Bruce, Mississippi. He often wonders if a better life waits for him once this life on Earth is over.


 Credits:
Directed, Photographed, and Edited by Nathan Willis
Produced by Matthew Aughtry and Nathan Willis
Special Thanks: Roger Stolle, Vencie Varnado, and Leo "Bud" Welch

For more, read the 18th Southern Music Issue: Visions of the Blues





Nathan Willis

Nathan Willis is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in the American South. He has created documentaries for MSNBC, Vice, Fusion, and the Academy Award–winning production company Participant Media.