Erin Osmon
@erinosmon.bsky.social
Music journalist, critic, author. Teach @ USC. Album notes. Other things. New book about heartland rock due next year via W.W. Norton. Hoosier waving hi in LA.
Thanks for reading 🦉🌙
April 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Thanks for reading 🦉🌙
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A Tinkerer’s Playground: Erin Osmon and MECo reflect on 20 years of 'What Comes After The Blues'
'What Comes After the Blues' was produced amid big personnel changes and lots of little tweaks. That’s how Jason Molina liked it.
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I interviewed him a couple more times over the last year for forthcoming projects that will be released at some point. One time he literally called me from Dunkin Donuts, that’s how down to earth he was. Just a swell guy.
April 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I interviewed him a couple more times over the last year for forthcoming projects that will be released at some point. One time he literally called me from Dunkin Donuts, that’s how down to earth he was. Just a swell guy.
Yes it is! Miss seeing you around btw. We should get coffee and catch up ❤️.
March 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Yes it is! Miss seeing you around btw. We should get coffee and catch up ❤️.
Also opening new stores, which feels Herculean given *spreads arms* all of this.
February 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Also opening new stores, which feels Herculean given *spreads arms* all of this.
Also, I was a Barnes & Noble recently and the vibe was mystifyingly vibrant and sort of unbelievable — filled with coffee shop armchair intellectuals, history dads, hyper toddlers, and alterna teens, just like the bad old ‘90s. Did a little digging and found that B&N does not donate to facists.
February 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Also, I was a Barnes & Noble recently and the vibe was mystifyingly vibrant and sort of unbelievable — filled with coffee shop armchair intellectuals, history dads, hyper toddlers, and alterna teens, just like the bad old ‘90s. Did a little digging and found that B&N does not donate to facists.