Music:
James Brown, Bukka White, Andrew Bird, Blind Alfred Reed, Obray Ramsey, Scott Dunbar, Precious Bryant, Danny Barnes, Lee Perry
Movies:
A Man Escaped, Jaguar, Photo Wallahs, The Spider's Strategem, The Gleaners and I, M, Vampyr, The Killing, The Big Lebowski, Deep Blues
Books:
Reading American Photographs, Romancing the Folk, The Real Thing, The Ethnographer's Eye
Heroes:
George Mitchell, Alan Lomax, Alan Trachtenberg