“On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Ella Langley just released the most daring thing I've heard from country music this year. It's a cover of a 70-year-old song. It still feels very necessary, which is both exciting and maddening. Essay below.
Talking with @jonbern.bsky.social , Justin Townes Earle's biographer, about the reader response to his book. There are hard things in those pages, things he didn't want to learn as a fan himself. Full conversation on Untethered Southerner. untetheredsoutherner.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
Talking with @jonbern.bsky.social , Justin Townes Earle's biographer, about JTE's early stage persona — slightly campy, nodding to Vaudeville and the rhinestone flash of the Grand Ole Opry.
Full conversation on Untethered Southerner. untetheredsoutherner.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
Thanks to the great @hunterkelly.com for having me on to talk about Justin and addiction.
untetheredsoutherner.substack.com/p/what-do-yo...
MAGA country singer Nate Smith wants us to come together and love each other. I went through conversion therapy. The Supreme Court just made it easier to put more kids through it. The day those two things landed in the same afternoon is the day I wrote this piece.
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I love Moose so much!!!!!
Amen!
Enraged and yet empowered to keep fighting for the kids like me.
One gave me my first recording session fee. Another gave me my first byline. My thoughts on this year’s all-male Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Paul Overstreet,The Stanley Brothers, and Tim McGraw on Untethered Southerner.
Tammy Wynette packed so much in that line.
My remembrance of K.T. Oslin is up on Untethered Southerner. open.substack.com/pub/untether...
Ah, just finished watching last month. That series blew my mind.
More to come next week, but I’m obsessed with her. She should be in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
K.T. Oslin came to Nashville in her 40s, played by nobody's rules, and changed country music forever. She also changed this little southern, gay boy’s life. A remembrance.
Me too!!
Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.
Oh yes!! And produced by Brent Maher!
August Ponthier’s album, Everywhere Isn’t Texas, is healing my inner child, and reminding me of my queer country origin story.
oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.
Country singer Lee Brice is betting big on anti-LGBTQ+ grievance. Is it paying off? Looking at the numbers on Untethered Southerner.
QUEER JOY IS RESISTANCE! GAY LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL AND TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS! LET’S KEEP FIGHTING FOR OUR COMMUNITY! 🌈✨✊
She runs ICE, whose goons will be used to intimidate voters at the polls on election day.
Woah! My Substack, Untethered Southerner, is #25 on the Rising in Culture chart!! I’m right above my shero, @annelamott.bsky.social!!!
Thank you for your service, Hunter
As ever, our pal Hunter is a real one.
And it's not the first time Hunter's called an artist on something like this.
