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Reasons I Cannot Stop Listening to ‘Alabama Pines’ Today
My friend Carrie & I once had a discussion about which Jason Isbell song we could write a book (or maybe it was a short story) about. I think she chose “Outfit” or maybe it…
Random Flashback: Memories Like Fingerprints are Slowly Raising
I would bet you dollars to donuts that I’ve written about this somewhere at some point before. And I even tried to go find what I might have said before, I got to about 2006…
Step into My Time Machine: Can You Smell the Fruitopia?
Earlier this week Steve Nelson posted 90-minutes of radio from REV-105 on Soundcloud. First of all, I’ve listened to this about three times through now and I smile the entire 90 minutes — like a…
Where Did Y’All Get the Money to Buy All Those Records When You Were Teenagers?
The other night as Sister #2 was leaving Supergenius HQ, I was talking about what albums I might include on that Teenage Albums thing going around Facebook like a nasty virus. In case it has…
A Record I’ve Been Enjoying & What Happens Next Has Me Conflicted
Maybe my new thing is gonna be writing clickbaity headlines about mundane things. I feel like I need a new thing. So recently I fell hard and fast for Lori McKenna’s “The Bird & The…
Let’s Talk About How Revolutionary ‘I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man’ Is
It’s 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning. The sun is shining and I’ve had my coffee. Prince has been dead for two days now and I’m sitting here listening to “I Could Never Take the…
Purple Memories
As soon as I saw the tweet from The Current that there was a death at Paisley Park I started to cry. Not because I was sure it was Prince. Not that I had a…
PJ Harvey is the Flannery O’Connor of Rock & Roll
The Current is urging its listeners to help them compile a list of the of the 893 Essential Albums. They are asking people to submit their personal Top 10 lists and share them on social…
Top 25 Most Listened to Songs of 2016 (Or boy howdy do I know how to wallow)
Are you super sad that it’s taken me like seven entire days to finally get around to posting the Top 25 most listened to songs of 2016? I don’t blame you. I kind of am…