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Featured, Music, News & CultureJuly 8, 2022

Phil Ochs: Song of a Soldier

A highlight of my career as a music journalist was being asked to write liner notes to a box set of music by my all-time favorite singer and songwriter, Phil Ochs — and then getting a Grammy nomination for my work.

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Featured, News & CultureNovember 21, 2019

‘Leaving Eden’: A Story of Music, Race, and Old Endings in an Old Southern Mill Town

Leaving Eden tells the story of countless small towns across the South since the days of slavery.

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Music, News & CultureJanuary 20, 2014

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: ‘Dreams’ Deferred

TweetI first wrote the following commentary in January 2011 for the now-defunct Option-Magazine.com. At the time, America had a Black president. We were cautiously optimistic. […]

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News & CultureAugust 26, 2013

“Civil rights freed the white southerner… It gave us grace”

TweetThose words come from the late Phil Walden, one-time manager of the southern soul singer Otis Redding and southern blues-rock band The Allman Brothers. It […]

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