WestSouth:



Why doesn't anyone ever go to the Westsouth? Instead, they only go to the Southwest.

They don't know better.

Medeski, Martin, and Wood -the jazz trio- have a song in which they ask this.  'Where is the WestSouth,' you might ask.  They infer that its where we delve deeper rather than just following the paradigm normally given to us...  The beat poem/song voices an element missing from the be-bop love songs for which jazz is known.  Their song takes the normal jazz, and sets it to a new pattern.  It weighs in with a tenacious yet steady tone.

The song is a theme telling us to dig, to break down the old walls and visit reality as its happening on the ground.

We all should question things, explore, and get the full story.  Not just for our own wondering or amusement, but for informing decisions, actions, and lifestyles.

Here, WestSouth Reports builds a foundation of stories that should provide some new answers, and create more questions. The topics are held steady, put in focus, and given a space. Our gloss and hype are truth and investigation.

The stories are real, unless we label it fiction.

The WestSouth Report investigates and presents facts, volumes, and citations.   Nuances are given voice here, yand the readers return to a subject with a new understanding once a story is read.

So now you know.  The WestSouth IS real.  It's the depth as well as the detail, the dirt as well as the dream.  It is Geospatial Journalism that mines for more.



Artistic Album Cover/poster retrieved 2/15/2016:
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Location: Gallup, USA

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