With approximately 75 percent of golden age gospel music lost, the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project is trying to save what’s left.
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Pulling Out All the Stops to Understand a Distant Father
“The phrase ‘pull out all the stops’ comes from the organ; it’s fortunate for listeners’ eardrums that organists never do this.”
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The Wonder Valley Desert of Gram Parsons
A week alone in a California desert cabin leads one woman to the music of the legendary country rock songwriter and a sense of metaphysical perspective under the stars.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Hellhound on the Money Trail
Standard recording contracts screwed Bluesmen out of royalties in the early 1900s, and the system was no different when Columbia released “Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings in 1990.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Story
Out There: On Not Finishing
What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
Hanif Abdurraqib on Loving A Tribe Called Quest
“I wasn’t interested in writing the definitive book on A Tribe Called Quest. I was trying to write the definitive book on a single arc of fandom.”
Best of 2019
The Best of 2019 series is made up of guest-curated collections across food, sports, music, investigative reporting, science & nature, and other categories. Contributing writers and editors to these lists include Deborah Blum, Pamela Colloff, Danielle A. Jackson, Morgan Jerkins, Emily Raboteau, Sam Riches, Helen Rosner, Matthew Salesses, Mayukh Sen, Michael W. Twitty, and more.
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Remembering Woodstock ’94
On the concert’s 25th anniversary, Steve Edwards reflects on the mud, the music, and the myths he lives by.
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For Women Musicians, Maybelle Carter Set The Standard And Broke The Mold
“If Maybelle Carter — mother of country music, without whom country and rock and roll guitar would not exist — can’t make the great guitar player list, how can women musicians expect to be seen at all?”
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In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure
In this personal essay, Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
