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For books that I’ve reviewed, I’ve linked my review. Books listed under categories that aren’t designated as #ownvoices on the board will be labeled with #ownvoices where applicable. For books that are being released in 2017 and have set release dates, I have put the release month/date in parentheses.

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Below is the board, plus my picks for my bingo TBR and some suggestions for people who are looking for books to read. Aside from being a year-long challenge as opposed to a month-long one like #DiversityDecBingo, #DiversityBingo2017 encourages reading #ownvoices books (books where the author shares the same marginalization as the main character).Īlthough not all of the squares are marked as #ownvoices, I’m striving to read #ownvoices for as many as possible. You can show your participation and track other people’s progress with the hashtag #diversitybingo2017 on Twitter. The goal is to fill all of the squares on the board by reading a book that corresponds to the square. Here’s one of the reading challenges that I’ll be tackling. 'They had a white kid playing slide and a guy playing harmonica and then a washboard singer and we thought 'We could totally do that!' so we swung back through Arkansas on our way to Texas and my mom had a washboard on her porch.With a new year on its way, I’m renewing my commitment to reading diverse books. 'Before we actually started playing we went to New Orleans and saw Washboard Chaz playing at the Blue Nile and it was kind of the same setup,' says Merey. I like where I'm from and I like where we're going and it seems you can plant a seed in that good black dirt and here we are, you know?'Ĥ) They're not afraid to admit they used YouTube and new technology to learn an old school instrument. It's that heritage and it brought it home for me. I just got done doing some work at my grandmother's house in the field in the back and I got all this dirt all over my shoes and the guy behind me, big bearded 80-year-old guy, looks down at my shoes and says, 'That dirt right there is worth a million dollars.' I got back in my car and it sunk in. Says Eric: 'I was standing in a gas station in Arkansas. If you haven't heard of half of those there's nothing wrong with you but educate yourself and click click CLICK!ģ) They have cool stories from their afterschool jobs about the earth's soil on their feet. John Lee Hooker, RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Bukka White, Fred McDowell, and Lucille Bogan. The band shared its extensive list of influences, which as its members like to say, are part of our shared heritage culture. I guess what we do is a hybrid of those two,' says Eric, who plays the dobro and the kick drum. But what we wanted to do, what nobody was doing, was playing country blues, which is completely different from both of those genres. 'There's a really big country music scene and bluegrass music scene in Austin. Sorry Skrillex.Ģ) They've done their homework on the genre and know more about country blues than your grandpa in Montana knows about milking a cow.

'You can do keyboards and electric guitars but you can't take that out in the woods or sit out on a porch and enjoy it,' says Merey, aka Mother Merey because as she herself admits, she's bossy.