Blake Maddux
James McMurtry’s Facebook page describes him as “Steadily Shedding Fans Since 1989.”
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Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the past but wouldn’t dare move to any of them permanently.
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“A lot of people don’t know about this fire today. It’s not really well-known as part of the city’s history.”
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“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.”
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The caliber of Richard Thompson’s voice is undiminished. His always expressive, frequently soothing timbre was perfectly intact.
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It has been a long time since I last felt this passionately about a new artist as I do about The Beths.
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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.”
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“I always wanted to write about abolition, because abolition is the most successful social movement in American history.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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