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Natalie Weiner
@natalieweiner.bsky.social
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Dallas-based freelance writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com

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love to learn new to me songs on sirius lol youtu.be/1ORxDWppnsM
Da Brat - Give It 2 You (Dirty Remix Version) (2024 Remastered)
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February 10, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Howard Mandel has announced that he & Oliver Lake have signed an agreement with SUNY Press to deliver ‘Passin' Thru: The Oliver Lake Reader,’ “including Oliver's art work and poetry, his personal memoirs and interviews with major collaborators and photographs” for publication next fall
Donate to Documenting Oliver Lake's Art, in his own words and others', organized by Howard Mandel
I'm Howard Mandel, a veteran jazz journalist, editor, educato… Howard Mandel needs your support for Documenting Oliver Lake's Art, in his own words and others'
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February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Finally put my finger on it: The riff to "Choosin' Texas" is a slightly countrified "Two Tickets to Paradise" (complimentary) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTqC...
Two Tickets To Paradise
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February 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
natalieweiner.bsky.social
p sure he represents missouri, tx has to take enough Ls as it is
February 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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love the kids www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...
Dallas students walk out to protest immigration crackdown amid threats from Abbott, TEA
The Dallas-area demonstrations follow a surge of student-led walkouts across Texas in recent weeks. It also comes amid state officials’ calls for discipline...
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February 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Don't Smooth Jazz the Inbox: Happy to see this a.m. that @natalieweiner.bsky.social will be talking to Nels Cline at Big Ears about his record “Lovers” that I recently discovered. If ya don't dig her thoughts on country music, the1959project.com is an indispensable diary of a landmark year in jazz…
The 1959 Project
A snapshot of jazz 60 years ago, every day.
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February 10, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Hey! This website is really open to boycotting the World Cup & the Olympics, which we LOVE to see. We are organizing against the 2028 Olympics in LA as part of a broader fight against turning Los Angeles into a permanent host city for mega-events. We want NO Olympics anytime, anywhere.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are you? What are you doing? NOlympics LA is a grassroots, all-volunteer coalition formed in 2017 in opposition to the LA28 Olympic bid. Our group includes individual members and a growing list o...
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January 22, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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Finished this over the weekend. Heartbreaking. Made me sad, angry, but most of all made me miss him. As a person and an artist.
@jonbern.bsky.social did a remarkable job putting this story together.
#justintownesearle #booksky📚 #altcountry #nashville
Book cover of "What Do You Do When You're Lonesome: The Authorized Biography of Justin Townes Earle" by Jonathan Bernstein. Black and white picture of JTE in the center, wearing an old hat and holding a guitar.
February 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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sorry to be a total wet blanket but there is a lot of sanewashing of the olympics
February 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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if you would like to support our work - what i would humbly say is superlative country coverage that's mostly available for free - we would love to have you join our community of paying subscribers
February 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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subscribe to jonny's newsletter for thoughtful writing on books and life (gratis!) bsky.app/profile/jonn...
jonnyauping.bsky.social LeeAnn Wombat @jonnyauping.bsky.social · 12h
for this week’s My Time Back, i wrote about Chris Payne’s Where Are Your Boys Tonight? and about the idea of getting into emo music at 37 years old mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/where-are-...
It's sort of irrelevant whether I'd be friends with these people when we were all 15, because none of us are 15, but listening to that music at that age did inform the people they became. Look, I'm not going to take music recommendations from someone who listens to a lot of Widespread Panic or Insert Some Other Artists That I Don't Want To Offend Readers By Saying Their Fans Are Really Annoying To Talk To. But I've talked about jazz and country music with emo fans and enjoyed myself. I think it's only fair I give a shot at my own emo moment.
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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not that anyone needs more evidence of keith being one of the best around but he keeps offering it bsky.app/profile/usef...
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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I saw Eric Church this weekend but I had other things on my mind.
I Watched Eric Church Perform in St. Paul While ICE Thugs Were Kidnapping My Neighbors - Racket
The Nashville outsider rocked for a fiery 2 1/2 hours, but there are some lines even he won't cross.
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February 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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subscribe to My Time Back and read about a book every week. ppl are saying things like “i’m glad this exists” mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/where-are-...
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?
My tentative foray into emo as a 37-year-old.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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for this week’s My Time Back, i wrote about Chris Payne’s Where Are Your Boys Tonight? and about the idea of getting into emo music at 37 years old mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/where-are-...
It's sort of irrelevant whether I'd be friends with these people when we were all 15, because none of us are 15, but listening to that music at that age did inform the people they became. Look, I'm not going to take music recommendations from someone who listens to a lot of Widespread Panic or Insert Some Other Artists That I Don't Want To Offend Readers By Saying Their Fans Are Really Annoying To Talk To. But I've talked about jazz and country music with emo fans and enjoyed myself. I think it's only fair I give a shot at my own emo moment.
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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probably one of the better things i've written. him on politics, broadly, then; obviously changing his tune a bit
Crockett doesn't take the political implications of his music lightly — his first album, A Stolen Jewel, is named for a song he wrote about colonialism, and the diverse covers he chooses serve as a rebuke of those who are proactively trying to keep country music white and conservative. But not compromising his own values while trying to make music that reaches beyond political and cultural divides is still, in his words, a "tightrope act." "That's one of the great challenges of America," he told me in a 2021 interview. "You just have to kind of decide at some point: Do I want to speak only to an audience that thinks like me, or do I want to speak to a wider audience? That doesn't mean I'm going to censor myself. But I'm not going to stop anybody from listening to me, because I actually want to change people's minds. Not just about racial issues or gender issues, but I want to change people's viewpoint of the whole world." After all, as he correctly assesses, one of the reasons "Welcome To Hard Times" (released during the summer of 2020) became his national breakout is that everyone who hears it — no matter their circumstances — thinks it's even more true for them than it is for anyone else.
February 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Good morning
A parody of a Peanuts cartoon strip in which Lucy says, "I feel torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy..."
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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glad charley made all this explicit, he has been a real one
sandybeach805.bsky.social Every Bite Counts @sandybeach805.bsky.social · 1d
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
February 10, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Here for all your county music what it all means means
February 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
natalieweiner.bsky.social
tbc very good news!!! and you're not gonna read a more expert source on the topic
February 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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awesome piece from @marissarmoss.bsky.social on country music's first non morgan wallen hot 100 no. 1 in...quite a while !! www.dontrocktheinbox.com/ella-langley...
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is a Phenomenon: Will It Change the Landscape for Women?
Today, Ella Langley made history - her single “Choosin’ Texas” made her the first woman to hit the Hot 100 (all genre), Hot Country and Country Airplay charts, all at the same time. To be honest, thes...
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February 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Very exciting news on Terry Allen et al from Paradise of Bachelors....
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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fun fact: it's v easy and rewarding to make babies do aj barner's td celebration
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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good morning family
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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omg
super bowl bib
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM