Who's Writing This?

Well I'm just a simple country chicken…

Futurama? Anyone? Not a lot of crossover with country music folks and Futurama fans? Cool, cool.

So who am I? For the purposes of this project, I'm a country music listener. Have been since I was a kid, and that never really changed. Secondarily related, I'm also a classic rock fan, a folk music fan, a filk fan, a heavy metal fan, etc, etc. I like a lot of different kinds of music, and I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. My Spotify playlists are an absolute mess if you're looking to have a coherent genre experience. They're very…vibey.

Or they're related to one of my books. Because in the third-most important aspect of myself to this project, I'm a professional author. Why does that matter? Because it's a damn blog, so I better be able to write if we're going to have a decent time together here, right?

If you're a fantasy reader, you can check out those books here.

If you like the sound of men falling in love with other men, those books live over here.

Other minutiae: too many dogs, live in Washington, foodie, screaming leftist, gay, millennial.

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Week 6: The Chicks

So this week was supposed to be about the Carolina Chocolate Drops and Rhiannon Giddens, and it was supposed to come out on Saturday. But I've been on deadline for a writing project and I just wasn't able to pull it off. I want to be able to do CCD their proper due, because they're amazing. So I'm dusting this one off. It was supposed to come a little later, on, but I already have it written up, so I'm not going to make this any later than it already is. So let's talk about The Chicks . And you can't talk about The Chicks without A: talking about how they dropped "Dixie" from their original name and B: talking about the Iraq War. Yeah. I know. I thought we could move past it too, but it's integral to The Chicks and any conversation about them, because they are one of the very select, very few actual victims of cancel culture. You can find much more detail about this from other places, but the short version is: The Chicks opposed the Iraq War,...

Week 7: Carolina Chocolate Drops

And I’m already back. Who’d’ve thunk? Since I took care of all the rigmarole in the last entry, let’s not fuck around with anything: today we’re talking about Carolina Chocolate Drops . I was originally going to include Rhiannon Giddens in this, but after musing on it, I honestly think she just deserves her own article at a later date. It’s not fair to her to write an article about a band she was in 8 years ago and have her as a passing note when she has more than established her own country sound in the interim. Same incredible voice, but the vibe is all her own. So Carolina Chocolate Drops. A group of multi-instrumentalist Black artists and vocalists, doing old-time music, americana, and classic country. And already, I can here some Nice White Person™ clacking away at their keyboard, ready to tell me how CCD isn’t really country. 1: I refer you back to the article by Elamin Abdelmahmoud I referenced in the Charley Pride entry and 2: if you really want to quibble about whethe...

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