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David Connerley Nahm
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dmandl.bsky.social
Good news for some of my friends desperately trying to move copies of their records.
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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geoliminal.bsky.social
Another Saint Lucia sighting, this time at the old Ursaline Convent here in New Orleans! She is everywhere! Her EYES are everywhere!!
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
dcnahm.bsky.social
No need to pose shirtless if your aura is pure.
The band The Residents dressed in tuxedos and top hats with canes. They have eyeballs for heads.
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
missed the third anniversary of Mimi Parker’s death, which I’d meant to mark by posting my Low playlist that I made after I heard the news, but I will post it late, because Low makes me want to be late to things anyway

open.spotify.com/playlist/3rM...
Spotify – Web Player
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November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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tylerwilcox.bsky.social
The math isn't exact, mind you, but: AGW + Horses + Zuma =
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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wordnerdy.bsky.social
Davey is a good biscuit maker
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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rezekjoe.bsky.social
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
Logo for Icarus flying academy in Farmingdale, NY
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
dcnahm.bsky.social
Every time this account posts a Kentucky town, I think: "This is the greatest thing I have ever seen."

That second picture is exactly what Kentucky looks like all the time, specifically the color and quality of the trees.
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
dcnahm.bsky.social
As someone who wore out his 4 track in the 90s, I can tell you the best sounding tapes were the cheapest ones you could find at the pharmacy within walking distance of your dorm room.
bluetapes.bsky.social Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 2d
What actually was the difference?
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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townsusa.bsky.social
Flat Lick, Kentucky
Pop: 1,316

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Lick,_Kentucky

Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=167609010
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November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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jsief.bsky.social
the stables at gloaming
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
dcnahm.bsky.social
Love lunch ladies.
girlscientist.bsky.social Chris Gunter 🧬 @girlscientist.bsky.social · 3d
My great-grandmother was a lunch lady in rural Georgia and was just as tough, resourceful, and caring as all of these wonderful ladies. Thank you for lifting them up, @bittersouth.bsky.social! 🥹 bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.
bittersoutherner.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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timmcmahan.bsky.social
'...Carrboro, NC, indie band Erie Choir is the project by former Sorry About Dresden guitarist Eric Roehrig. Who was Sorry About Dresden? The Chapel Hill band was part of the golden age of Saddle Creek Records, which released albums The Convenience of Indecision in 2001...'
New Erie Choir (ex Sorry About Dresden), Glow in the Dark, Mynabirds; Ariel Pink tonight… - Lazy-i
Erie Choir is back with a new full-length, Golden Reviser, released last Friday on Potluck Foundation Records.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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jsief.bsky.social
my first in-depth encounter with NY’s music was a homemade mix cassette tape of acoustic songs that I found & bought at a thrift store; a lot of deep cuts on there. “Last Trip to Tulsa” included—it was unspeakably weird but great to encounter songs like that with little in the way of context.
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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johnlingan.bsky.social
Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young, an Olympian figure and the subject of some of the funniest quotes in BACKBEATS thanks to his tempestuous relationship with Kenny Buttrey.

“Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can.”
Neil Young was among the folk rockers to follow Dylan's lead to Music City. He was still largely known as a crunchy electric guitarist at that point; he used distortion to signify joy and abandon on "Cinnamon Girl" and heartbreak on "Ohio." But his recent songs had been written during extensive physical recovery, like Dylan's had been, and were calmer for it. Buttrey, along with Tim Drummond on bass, Jack Nitzsche on piano, and Ben Keith on pedal steel, became Young's Nashville band, which he dubbed the Stray Gators. Harvest, the record they made together, was Young's biggest in every way. It featured a full orchestra on multiple tracks, two career-defining singles ("Old Man" and "Heart of Gold," his first number 1), guest background vocalists Ronstadt and James Taylor, and some of his best songwriting, particularly the straightforwardly country title track. Buttrey helped Young achieve that, even if their relationship was hardly chummy. "Neil tells everybody what to play, note for note," Buttrey said later. "If you play somethin' he doesn't like, boy, he'll put a look on you you'll never forget. Neil hires some of the best musicians in the world and has 'em play as stupid as they possibly can." Young told Buttrey not to play cymbals, and to hit his hi-hats with his nondominant left hand. Everything about Neil Young was defiant— his overdriven guitar tones, his nasal high tenor, the mix of unaffected directness and inscrutable poeticism in his lyrics. And that extended to his sense of rhythm. The prehistoric stomp of his work with Crazy Horse, like his distinctive hammer-on acoustic guitar style, was all about riding a groove, and the ambitious productions of Harvest didn't get in the way of that goal. "Out on the Weekend" and especially "Harvest" have a methodical, subdued gait that comes directly from Young's strumming, not the drums, as Buttrey acknowledged. The strings of Young's guitar fill the spaces where cymbals would otherwise go. "It's just ultra-, ultra-simple, a laidback kinda thing nobody but Neil does, and if you're right with him it sounds great, and it sounds awful if you're not," Buttrey explained. "If I can't see Neil's right hand when he's playin' guitar, then I'm not playing. His rhythm playing is just perfect—it'll feel like he's slowing down, but it's just the Neil Young feel. No drummer should ever hold Neil to a certain tempo, because if you put a metronome on it, you kill the Neil Young feel." After the success of Harvest, Young brought the Stray Gators on a 1973 tour, the first time Buttrey had allowed himself to be lured out of the studio and on the road. Supposedly the drummer requested an exorbitant payment of $100,000 to offset his lost record-making wages, which prompted the other musicians to ask the same. The anger never abated between Buttrey and Young, who was also reeling from the recent overdose death of his friend and Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten. Increasingly reliant on tequila to calm his nerves, playing in bigger venues than ever before, and bereft of his harder-rocking backing group, Young was at his wits end through this tour and took it out on Buttrey. "Neil would just jump all over me," Buttrey said. Young kept hectoring him to hit the bass drum harder and get bigger sticks, and Buttrey kept buying thicker and thicker ones until a music store clerk told him, "Son, anything bigger than this is gonna have bark on it." Young once got so angry he punctured Buttrey's snare with a drumstick during a sound check. "I was playin' ten times louder than I had ever played in my life," the drummer recalled. "I was tryin' thicker heads, bigger sticks. It was drivin' me crazy. I looked down at the snare drums one night and saw somethin' splatter. My hand would bleed, it was drippin' down the stick and formed a big puddle on the snare. And when I hit the drum, blood would fly through the air.. It was the roughest time of my life." He quit midway through the tour, and the other musicians, Young included, plowed ahead in wretched shape from overdrinking. Incredibly, Young released a live album from this tour, Time Fades Away, though he chose performances from the leg that featured Jefferson Airplane drummer Johnny Barbata as Buttrey's replacement. It also contained only raw and rowdy new songs, recorded sparely, not the recent melodic hits that made his fame. In the longer context of his career, especially the chilling records that followed in Young's "ditch trilogy," it remains an exhilarating album, with songs that aren't found elsewhere in his catalog and a bleary, brown sound to match its cover. Yet Young basically disowned it, and let it fall out of print for nearly fifty years.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
dcnahm.bsky.social
I received my first guitar for Christmas in 1989. The following summer I worked at the snack bar at the Country Club.

I was responsible for cooking meat, from a raw state, for consumption, but was never taught how to cook or given in instruction on safe handling of meat.
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
dcnahm.bsky.social
I once had a special show on WXYC dedicated to guitar solos and I played this in it entirety.

I received so many (angry) calls.
tylerwilcox.bsky.social Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 3d
Always fun to remember that this is the only album that Neil Young has ever released on his birthday.
Neil Young's ARC, released Nov. 12, 1991
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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knifemommy.bsky.social
This one. youtu.be/OKNCAQQaNP8?...
Razor Love
YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic
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November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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sterlewine.bsky.social
I also am fond of the sprawling Neil Young Archives, Vol. III: 1976-1987, which is probably my favorite of the big box sets Neil has released. sterlewine.substack.com/p/neil-young...
Neil Young Archives, Vol. III: 1976-1987: Journeys Through The Past
The mammoth 17-CD box set documents a hero's journey through the wilderness of middle age.
sterlewine.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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sterlewine.bsky.social
I feel like I'm always writing about Neil Young, possibly because he releases something new every three months. One of my favorite pieces of relatively recent vintage is my review of the Way Down in the Rust Bucket, a live album recorded shortly after Ragged Glory. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Neil Young / Crazy Horse: Way Down in the Rust Bucket
Read Steve Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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sterlewine.bsky.social
Wishing a happy 80th birthday to Neil Young by playing "Country House," the first song on Ragged Glory, the album turned me into a lifelong fan way back in 1990. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czL...
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Country Home (Official Audio)
YouTube video by neilyoungchannel
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
dcnahm.bsky.social
I agree with John David and not just because I’m named after him.
jddyche.bsky.social John David Dyche @jddyche.bsky.social · 3d
Happy birthday to this towering musical genius.
michaelwarburton.bsky.social Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 3d
80 Candles 🎂 today for NEIL YOUNG
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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johnlingan.bsky.social
BACKBEATS is out today!

Come see me & @andreapitzer.bsky.social at Kramers in DC tonight at 7: kramers.com/events/36367...

DM me a receipt if you’d like a signed book plate in the mail.

And read an excerpt in @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Cover of BACKBEATS Interior photo pages featuring Ringo, the Stones, the MGs and more. PRAISE FOR BACKBEATS "[Exhibits] passion and deep knowledge... The only moments I put this book down were to pause and listen to the perfect examples that Lingan, a drummer himself, cites as crucial.... Here we see and hear the music of our lives." -BILL JANOVITZ, author of Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History "A thrilling ride... In exquisite detail and deft prose, John Lingan relates the creative insights and technical mastery of fifteen of rock's most influential groove merchants-many still unsung. In doing so, he reclaims the rock narrative from all those frontmen and guitarists, showing how the wizards at the back of the stage were moving the music all along." -IAN S. PORT, author of The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll "An intelligent, heartfelt, and long-overdue tribute to the unsung heroes of modern music. Because, let's face it—if it ain't got that swing, it don't mean a thing." -BRAD TOLINSKI, coauthor of Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar "Backbeats glows with enthusiasm and delivers an insightful glimpse into the sultans of swing who create fire by rubbing two sticks together." —BOB SPITZ, author of The Beatles: The Biography and Led Zeppelin: The Biography "Sitting ten feet from stardom, drummers have had a central but slightly removed view of rock 'n' roll. A drummer himself, John Lingan captures that unique perspective.... Backbeats delivers to the reader something fresh and different. It's a hit." -PRESTON LAUTERBACH, author of The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock A sticker book plate
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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acnewman.bsky.social
Rock history in brief:

These Kentucky teens from the mid 80s not only went on to form Slint and Gastr Del Sol, pioneers of post-rock, but also gave us this, a post-hardcore anthem to rival Fugazi 'Waiting Room'

music.apple.com/us/album/sun...
Sun God by Squirrel Bait on Apple Music
Song · 1985 · Duration 2:47
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November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
dcnahm.bsky.social
A pleasure of being a Neil Young fan for a long time is that you eventually get around to realizing he’s got great songs on just about every album and in every era.

In particular, I am a big “the 80s albums are good” guy. Landing on Water rips. Life is great!
chrisdeville.bsky.social Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 4d
I'm exhausted from just formatting this Neil Young tribute, so props to Ryan Leas for all his work tracking these stories down. It's another mammoth achievement and a fitting tribute to the GOAT.
80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Neil Young Song
Happy 80th birthday, Neil Young!
stereogum.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM