Shag Dancing

  • Golden Oldies

    [av_image src=’http://bobryanwrites.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/booksigning1-300×225.jpg’ attachment=’228′ attachment_size=’medium’ align=’left’ animation=’pop-up’ link=’lightbox’ target=” styling=” caption=” font_size=” appearance=”][/av_image] The best part of me will always live for the rhythms of summer, in the Land of Shag, where […]

  • The Birth of Beach Music

    Come the summer 2015, seventy-two years ago, new music that would mesmerize teenagers worldwide was heard first on the beaches of North and South Carolina. Southern kids called it Beach […]

  • Shag: Gut-Level Rhythm & Blues

    Come the summer of 2015, the Shag, the legendary dance of the South, will celebrate its 72nd anniversary of conception. In June of 1943, it came to pass that Race […]

  • Silver Soldier – Silver Fox

    In the Land of Shag, I watched a pretty woman dancing smooth as a glassy ocean. Her backside boogie walked cool as a breeze on a humid afternoon. She was a […]