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

Photographing the Collective Experience of Self-Isolation

by Krista Stevens April 14, 2020October 19, 2022

“The photographer hopes his brief visits…can help break the oppressive monotony of a seemingly endless day, stretching on without distractions from the outside world.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Shelved: Jeff Buckley’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

by Tom Maxwell February 19, 2020December 16, 2022

The posthumous Buckley industry began with this problematic album, proof that the people who control a musician’s estate don’t always have his music in mind.

Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Story

Memory and the Lost Cause

by Danielle Jackson December 27, 2018October 19, 2022

An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

Hellhound on the Money Trail

by Longreads December 18, 2018October 19, 2022

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 inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Shelved: The Sound of Big Star’s Self-Destruction

by Tom Maxwell October 29, 2018October 19, 2022

As the band dissolved, they managed to capture their destruction in some dark, powerful music.

Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Quotes

Memphis Celebrates King For #MLK50, But Still Struggles To Honor What He Worked For

by Danielle Jackson April 26, 2018October 19, 2022

Essayist Zandria F. Robinson considers the festivities of #MLK50.

Posted inCurrent Events, History

Tennessee, Goddamn: Memphis Fights To Remove Its Confederate Monuments

by Danielle Jackson September 11, 2017October 19, 2022

The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest has the city going up against the state of Tennessee.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Coretta Scott King Fuelled the Civil Rights Movement with ‘Courage, Dignity, and Poise’

by Krista Stevens April 19, 2017October 19, 2022

How Coretta Scott King’s “grace, diginity, and poise” in the face of horrific tragedy fuelled the Civil Rights Movement.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Seeing Robert Johnson’s Face for the Third Time

by Aaron Gilbreath September 2, 2015October 19, 2022

In 2008, Vanity Fair published a story about a guitar salesman named Steven Schein, who found a photograph of Robert Johnson, the world’s most influential Bluesman, for sale on eBay for $25. The photo was mislabeled “Old Snapshot Blues Guitar B.B. King???”. Only two photos of Johnson had been publicly released. The article is about […]

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