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Reclusive, lone, multi-instrumentalist. Bottleneck slide guitar and pedal steel alchemy. ♣️♦️♠️♥️ https://thehowardhughessuite.com/

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RL Burnside was born 99 years ago today in Lafayette County, Mississippi. There's no other blues musician whose music I've enjoyed more than his. Two of my favorite records of his: Mississippi Hill Country Blues and Too Bad Jim. There was a hypnotic quality to his playing. So damn good.

25.11.2025 20:17 — 👍 100    🔁 13    💬 10    📌 0
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Books We Love Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

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24.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
A note that says there are some poems you’d save in a fire

A note that says there are some poems you’d save in a fire

cleaning out my notes app which , like when moving, means discarding but also rediscovering that which you’d forgotten. anyway I found this and I’m gonna make more of it.

23.11.2025 17:28 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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@robertplant.com was on @cbsmornings.bsky.social to talk about Saving Grace and perform three songs from their new album, 'Saving Grace,' in a 'Saturday Sessions' set from the @capitoltheatre.bsky.social in Port Chester, NY. You can watch it all at www.nonesuch.com/journal/watc...

22.11.2025 21:14 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, November 2025 Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.

Huge thanks to @bcsalmon.bsky.social for putting Josh Martin's " Western Mind" album on Bandcamp's Best Country Music of November. Very thankful for folks who spread the word on this beautiful album 🙏
daily.bandcamp.com/best-country...

21.11.2025 20:56 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

Such an excellent, immersive read!
Loved this book by @joannapocock.bsky.social! 🖤

19.11.2025 10:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

He was ultra gifted!

15.11.2025 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
BACKBEATS
A HISTORY of
ROCK AND ROLL' in FIFTEEN DRUMMERS
JOHN LINGAN

BACKBEATS A HISTORY of ROCK AND ROLL' in FIFTEEN DRUMMERS JOHN LINGAN

First page of the book’s intro.

First page of the book’s intro.

A two-page spread of photos featuring the Rollibg Stones, Earl Palmer, and more.

A two-page spread of photos featuring the Rollibg Stones, Earl Palmer, and more.

"Fascinating reading...Loud but often overlooked, drummers get their due in this entertaining survey...Lingan does a terrific job explaining the technical aspects of drumming to a lay audience; this book is accessible to any rock fan, even ones who don't know the difference between a snare and a tom."
—Kirkus Reviews

"Fascinating reading...Loud but often overlooked, drummers get their due in this entertaining survey...Lingan does a terrific job explaining the technical aspects of drumming to a lay audience; this book is accessible to any rock fan, even ones who don't know the difference between a snare and a tom." —Kirkus Reviews

BACKBEATS is out one month from today and it’s a real book! One that Kirkus says is great! johnlingan.com to preorder.

11.10.2025 17:08 — 👍 27    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 6
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Ohio Vision, by Spencer Radcliffe 10 track album

New Spencer Radcliffe album "Ohio Vision" out now

spencerradcliffe.bandcamp.com/album/ohio-v...

14.11.2025 14:27 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2
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I am so grateful to Sophy Roberts for inviting me onto her podcast 'Gone to Timbuktu'. It's so rare for an interviewer to reflect your work back at you in a way that makers you see it differently. Sophy has this ability. (1)
#nonfiction #travel #memoir #ecology
www.gonetotimbuktu.com/joanna-pococ...

14.11.2025 11:51 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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The Wringing Cloth, by Old Saw 12 track album

lobbyartrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-wr...

11.11.2025 15:09 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0
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In the blink of an eye, cool temperatures turned cold. It’s every reason for a hat, a scarf, gloves, a hot beverage like hot cocoa with an overflow of marsh mellows and the warm music of Night Tides. Listen in at 8 pm CST on KCUR 89.3, www.kcur.org/show/night-t... & tunein.com/radio/Night-... 🎶🤎🎧

10.11.2025 01:17 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Blake Mills, Pino Palladino team up again on 'That Wasn't A Dream' The two multi-instrumentalists share insights from the making of their latest collaborative record.

Pino Palladino, legendary bass guitarist, has played on iconic albums from Eric Clapton to D'Angelo. Guitarist & producer Blake Mills has performed with Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple and Dylan. On their new lp,That Wasn't A Dream, they create something completely unique.
www.npr.org/sections/wor...

07.11.2025 01:42 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2
Vegas, Baby!
YouTube video by Black Cat Parade - Topic Vegas, Baby!

My kid and I wrote a little song. His band expanded it, recorded it, and released it today. They're in an Exile on Main Street/MJ Lenderman phase. "Vegas, Baby!" by Black Cat Parade youtu.be/E0bvXbmaQ0o?...

07.11.2025 05:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

This is a must-see!

04.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Organizations | Kelly Catlin Author

Thank you for your sincere interest in my book, Kurt Cobain: Forever in Bloom. It was out for a limited print run and has been acquired by Skyhorse Publishing. It will return in 2026 for the 35th anniversary of Nevermind. 100% of my profits go to charity www.kellycatlinauthor.com/theorganizat...

19.10.2025 04:20 — 👍 28    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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On 'Soul-Folk', with author Ashawnta Jackson These days, the too-often ignored history of Black artists making country music looks like positively well-trodden territory compared to the story of Black artists and folk. Enter Ashawnta Jackson's S...

it was so lovely to talk with @heyjackson.bsky.social about her wonderful book Soul-Folk for Don't Rock The Inbox. highly recommend it! www.dontrocktheinbox.com/on-soul-folk...

28.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 40    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 4
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Well lookee here - the new Lila Tristram LP… it is simultaneously America and better than America

wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/america

25.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2

Sounds superb!

21.10.2025 05:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Aïssaoua: Sufi Trance from Morocco, by Hive Mind Records 4 track album

Heavy, heavy Sufi trance music from Morocco. Available until the end of November. All proceeds go to Hope Not Hate:

hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-ssao...

19.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 74    🔁 28    💬 3    📌 5
Smote – Drommon Pt. 1 (Live in Blank Studios)
YouTube video by Rocket Recordings Smote – Drommon Pt. 1 (Live in Blank Studios)

A word of praise for @harrysword.bsky.social whose support for great music through his Monolithic Undertow book and many other writings has opened me up to the pleasures of those heavy heavy sounds such as Smote who I’m looking forward to seeing tomorrow in Glasgow’s Hug & Pint

19.10.2025 17:40 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

~20 min till hit on J E M P. It's a psychedelic wormhole with just enough spiritual jazz to make you think Sun Ra may have invented the universe. @jempradio.com 8:45 am EST

New #tortoise #TheNecks #Windows96 #MARSAYLSH & more + @goosetheband.bsky.social 9.26.25 Madhüvan Jam deconstructed

19.10.2025 12:22 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Long grass inspired electroacoustics, off-world ambient, outsider folk meets white gospel, modern folk rock royalty, raw sample strewn beatdown house from South Africa and a DJ mix masterclass. All this and more in the latest newsletter:
theslowmusicmovement.substack.com/p/no-moss-here

17.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Pledge your Support to WFMU! Keep WFMU Weird! Donate to our Year-End Hellraiser Fundraiser. Visit wfmu.org/pledge.

Please pledge to my radio show FREAKING OUT on wfmu, I can only bear asking this one time. Thank you I really appreciate the opportunity to be effective.

pledge.wfmu.org/donate?progr...

14.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Richard Thompson Salutes His Music Colleague, the great Danny Thompson! Join us for a three hour tribute to one of greatest musicians ever to pick up the double bass — the late Danny Thompson. His long time musical partner, the equally legendary Richard Thompson joins hos...

Now listening.

12.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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How ambient music went from 1970s niche to the mainstream What is it that has helped this genre find its way into everyone's headphones and ear buds?

BBC News - How ambient music went from 1970s niche to the mainstream - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

11.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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'It's kind of surreal that it happened to us': Rural West Texas woman witnesses NASA space junk as it lands in her neighbor's yard | Fortune When Ann Walter called the local sheriff's office, she learned that NASA, indeed, was looking for a piece of equipment that had gone lost.

who was going to tell me that this town in West Texas got Donnie Darkoed

11.10.2025 05:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)
YouTube video by Tom Waits Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues" (Live on The Human Factor)

Tom Waits, "Tom Traubert's Blues," live #youtube
youtu.be/U2sV6mG18C4?...

10.10.2025 09:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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In Conversation with Hannah Peel and Tim O'Brien - Jodrell Bank Join us for an exclusive evening with award-winning musician Hannah Peel, uncovering new ways of understanding the Universe through sound.

At recording of new @hannahpeel.bsky.social composition celebrating 80 yrs of @jodrellbank.bsky.social with the BBC Philharmonic. We'll be discussing it all on 30 Oct www.jodrellbank.net/events/in-co...

07.10.2025 13:20 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

good tunes in here this month, as always ⬇️

07.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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