If You Love the Music of the Carter Family, Thank Leslie Riddle By Michelle Weber Highlight “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.'”
Funk Lessons in Sonic Solitude By Longreads Feature “Joi’s recorded performances embodied all the funkiness my little soul had been waiting for.”
Doomed in Nashville By Monica Drake Feature On a whirlwind book tour, Monica Drake fights to resist the pull of an emotional — and physical — abyss.
‘Hotchickenfrication’: One Fowl Enterprise By Krista Stevens Highlight The origin story of Prince’s Hot Chicken, and how imitators are polluting this spicy comfort food.
The Current Hot Chicken Craze Is Also about Race and Gentrification By Ben Huberman Highlight In Nashville, an exploration of the current obsession with the city’s signature dish: hot chicken.
Girlhood Gone: Notes from the New Nashville By Susannah Felts Feature After returning home to Nashville following many years away, Susannah Felts assesses the city’s changing face through the eyes of a native, and as a woman raised in the South.
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