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I Ain’t Got Nothing But Time

by Krista Stevens December 20, 2022December 20, 2022

“Sometimes all we can do is howl.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Black Vanguard in White Utopias

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 5, 2022October 19, 2022

“Country music issues a promissory note to its white listeners. The promise is that no matter how much the world around them may be changing, a country radio station or concert will be a safe space for white sentimentality.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Dolly Moment

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 23, 2021October 19, 2022

“Only a society that willfully believes itself ‘post-racist’ could produce such a queen.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

Why Mother Maybelle Carter’s Work Was Never Done

by Krista Stevens March 3, 2021October 19, 2022

“In a few years’ time, however, she became a different kind of working woman: a musician by trade and one of the hardest working women in country music.”

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 inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, History, Quotes

If You Love the Music of the Carter Family, Thank Leslie Riddle

by michelleweber June 16, 2020October 19, 2022

“First, you exclude black people from the festivals. Then write them out by not recording them. And pretty soon, ‘you have this manufactured image of country music being white and being poor.'”

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

The Story of Country Music’s Great Songwriting Duo

by Longreads September 2, 2019October 19, 2022

Before they released “Wichita Lineman,” the greatest unfinished song of all time, Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb lived surprisingly parallel lives.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Weird in the Daylight

by Longreads August 6, 2018October 19, 2022

The story of Sadlack’s Heroes, the Raleigh dive bar that helped galvanize the alternative country scene in the 1990s.

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘Country Music … Was Anything BUT Pure’: An Interview with Bill Malone and Tracey Laird

by Sari Botton August 1, 2018October 19, 2022

The co-authors of ‘Country Music USA’ – a revised edition of the genre’s definitive history – talk with music writer Will Hermes about the music’s African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, country radio’s woman problem, and working on Ken Burns’ forthcoming doc.

Posted inArts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Featured, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews

‘Country Music … Was Anything BUT Pure’: An Interview with Bill Malone and Tracey Laird

by Will Hermes August 1, 2018October 19, 2022

The co-authors of ‘Country Music USA’ – a revised edition of the genre’s definitive history – talk about the music’s African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, country radio’s woman problem, and working on Ken Burns’ forthcoming doc.

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