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Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List

Cryin’, Dyin’, or Goin’ Somewhere: A Country Music Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath July 29, 2020October 19, 2022

Although the sound of the music has changed, country’s themes have endured.

Posted inReading List

Tangled Up in Bob Stories: A Dylan Reading List

by Aaron Gilbreath June 24, 2020November 25, 2022

Few musicians have generated as much music and as much study as this Nobel Prize winning singer-songwriter. Dylanology will last hundreds of years.

Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

“All The Best”: Rest Easy, John Prine

by Krista Stevens April 17, 2020October 19, 2022

I wish you love / And happiness / I guess I wish you / All the best

Posted inNonfiction

Those Limits Were Not Hindrances: An Interview with Megan Pugh

by Aaron Gilbreath June 24, 2019February 24, 2023

How a writer worked hard to understand one of American music’s most mysterious performers while protecting his past, and art.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Feeling the Wind in Their Beards

by Aaron Gilbreath November 9, 2017October 19, 2022

For the Sikh Motorcycle Club Of The Northeast, riding is centering, creates brotherhood and reaffirms their commitment to Sikh values.

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