Wine Country

This @emhilly.bsky.social piece on the historical relationship between wine and country music is absolutely delightful and eye opening.

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Aw, thanks so much, Jon!

Whoa!

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Thank you Ann--that means a lot! 🥂

Love this album so much and am excited for you to hear it! Watch the video (feat. giant puppets and Jodorowsky references!) for the first single "Mothersong" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Aaj...

Def a lot of Folkstreams and Appalshop films, Les Blank, Daughters of the Dust, The Gleaners and I, prob some folk horror and urban legend-based camp horror…

I’ve been musing on a “Folklore on Film” class so this will be helpful!

For @oxfordamerican.bsky.social's new spring food issue, I set out to answer a question that has puzzled me for a long time: Why are there so many heartbroken men drinking wine (at the honky tonk, no less) in classic country songs?? oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

Very special backyard show in Berea today 🌸

Trump Wants $200 billion more for war on Iran. Tell Congress NO! We demand that Congress reject the Trump administration’s request for a massive funding package to pay for its illegal war against Iran. Multiple media reports indicate that they are seeking as much a...

Time to take action now. Lawmakers need to hear our outrage. @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Trump Wants $200 billion more for war on Iran. Tell Congress NO!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

HOLY ONE SHEET BY EMILY HILLIARD When I describe Frank Hurricane to a friend, I tell them to imagine if John Fahey had become an extremely posi juggalo. While he’s got the chops of a skilled fingerstyle guitarist, his songs vividl…

Frank Hurricane's new record (his best yet?!), Southern Shrymp (in the Big City), is out today and I was honored to write the one-sheet for it. A spiritual pleasure! 🦐❤️🦐❤️frankhurricane.com/2026/03/24/holy-write-up...

Prison Dining Giant Aramark Serves Inedible Food to Drive Commissary Sales, Lawsuit Alleges Incarcerated people in West Virginia filed a lawsuit arguing that the nation's largest prison food provider violates consumer protections.

West Virginia prisoners allege that Aramark serves inedible food, such as “ultra-processed patties made from an indiscernible meat, to drive them to the company's food-for-purchase programs. In fiscal year 2025, Aramark brought in $18.5 billion dollars in revenue.
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Bummed that I’ll be away at a conference when you’re in Lexington!

The Spring 2026 Food Issue is now available for pre-order! 🔗: shorturl.at/uGSCR

Excited to chat with Alice Gerrard & talk Hazel Dickens with @jessiew.bsky.social during a live taping of @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social in Knoxville this weekend!

How to Be an Anticapitalist Today Anticapitalism isn't simply a moral stance against injustice — it's about building an alternative.

I had forgotten about this Olin-Wright essay: jacobin.com/2015/12/erik... and his discussion of real utopias.

Then we ponder the concept of "the singer songwriter" and go off the rails a little as we grapple w/ the role and efficacy of protest songs in our current political hellscape. In the mix: Tiktok-ification, mass movements, hopelessness and hope, the violence of the state, and the songs of the people.

The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

THANK YOU! Tempted to make the trip…

Rebby!!!!

from someone who has covered movements for a ~decade, studied them longer: it's not that what's happening right now is "new" (we can find precedent for present tactics in treatment of Black organizers in the 2010s onward, organizing on Palestine and ATL's Cop City, others). it's still really bad!

❗️Bob: “Hey, there’s a female Bob Dylan out there, apparently”❗️

Read @jonbern.bsky.social’s recent interview with @lucindawilliams.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com

I have watched the video of the execution that occurred in Minneapolis in the last hour. Here is a text description for those who, quite rightly, don't want to watch it, but feel they need to know.

Saw the Ann Lee movie (well, half of it). The Shakers deserve better

Jennifer Kelly (@aquariumdrunkard.com, Dusted) needs our help. Underground music heads, please join me in chipping in.

Please say he’ll be playing Alan Partridge 🙏

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.

He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

Pre-order It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story (5/26) NOW and get 30% off. On sale @UNC_Press til the end of the month.

Featuring: Rednecks, Black Panthers, & Blue Ribbon Beer! Colonel Sanders watching the 1968 DNC riots! High-grade People Power! & more!

Link below⤵️