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Blake Maddux

Music Interview: Singer-Songwriter James McMurtry — Playing With Words

James McMurtry’s Facebook page describes him as “Steadily Shedding Fans Since 1989.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Blake Maddux, James-McMurtry

Author Interview: Stephanie Schorow on “The Great Boston Fire” — Urban Conflagration

“A lot of people don’t know about this fire today. It’s not really well-known as part of the city’s history.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Blake Maddux, Stephanie Schorow, The Great Boston Fire

Music Interview: Chatting With Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook

“I remember playing the Rathskeller. I think that was the second gig we had in the US. I remember what a dive that was. I remember how really exciting it was to be there. Just the promise, the potential.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: Blake Maddux, Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze

Concert Review: Eminent Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist Richard Thompson at the Shalin Liu Performance Center

The caliber of Richard Thompson’s voice is undiminished. His always expressive, frequently soothing timbre was perfectly intact.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Blake Maddux, Richard Thompson, Rockport’s Shalin Liu Performance Center

Rock Album Review: This Live Album Proves that The Beths Are the Best

It has been a long time since I last felt this passionately about a new artist as I do about The Beths.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Auckland New Zealand 2020, Lunar Vacation, The Beths

Author Interview: Jan Brogan on a Revelatory Murder in Boston’s Combat Zone

The Combat Zone is more than simply a captivating exposition of legal proceedings and adjacent matters. It is an incisive, vivid, jarring, and meticulous account of — as the subtitle says — “murder, race, and Boston’s struggle for justice.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Andrew “Andy” Puopolo, Jan Brogan, The Combat Zone

Author Interview: Linda Hirshman on the Battle Against Human Bondage

“I always wanted to write about abolition, because abolition is the most successful social movement in American history.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: a Prophet, abolition, and a Contessa Moved a Nation, Blake Maddux, Frederick Douglass, Linda Hirshman, Maria Weston Chapman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, William Lloyd Garrison

Author Interview: Robert A. Gross on “The Transcendentalists and Their World”

“Concord was actually surprisingly representative of Massachusetts, New England, and maybe even the North in the 19th century. In learning about Concord, you learn about the making of modern America.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Blake Maddux, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert A. Gross, The Transcendentalists and Their World

Author Interview: “Of Thee I Sing” — Ben Railton on the Cycles of American Patriotism

“If you are more critical or try to highlight some of the worst things that happen in America, then you are un-American or anti-American.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Interview Tagged: American Patriotism, Ben Railton, We The People: The 500-year Battle Over Who Is American

Author Interview: Aaron S. Lecklider on the Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture

The reader comes away from Love’s Next Meeting with an awareness of the rich history of homosexual culture existed long before the Stonewall riots in the summer of ‘69.

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Interview Tagged: Aaron S. Lecklider, Love’s Next Meeting, The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture

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