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Jeff
@pophistory.bsky.social
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Writer-professor with interest in how popular culture (movies and music) intersects with history, news, and life. Editor-in-chief of music and movie website, http://Chimesfreedom.com. Boomer dad. Reds fan. Living in NY.
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Frank's Film Review: Frankenstein (2025)
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a remarkable film, with each shot carefully crafted like a master painter’s work, building a world that is beautiful and profoundly sorrowful.

#FrankGaimari #FranksFilmReview #Frankenstein2025 #GuillermoDelToro
Frankenstein (2025)
Frank’s Film Review: Frankenstein (2025)⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a remarkable film, with each shot carefully crafted like a master painter’s work, building a world that is …
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November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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BABY CONDOR shares new single “Seventeen” made entirely in their self-built Mermaid Studio. A handcrafted blend of memory, melody and analogue warmth. zurl.co/pBHEf
Baby Condor Releases New Single “Seventeen” Recorded at Their Self-Built Mermaid Studio - That Eric Alper
Dutch brother duo Baby Condor are back with their latest single “Seventeen,” a lush and emotionally rich track that glides through memory, transformation, and the beauty of growing up. With a sound that blends pop, country, folk, and indie influences, “Seventeen” is a cinematic experience wrapped in orchestral warmth and vintage production. It’s a continuation […]
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November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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daviddewitt.bsky.social
The Federal Communications Commission has voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
FCC allows prisons, jails to charge more for phone and video calls • Ohio Capital Journal
The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
pophistory.bsky.social
Rock critic Greil Marcus called this Charlie Rich song "a match for Ray Charles’ ‘Georgia On My Mind’ or Otis Redding’s ‘Try a Little Tenderness’ and somehow more indomitable than either." www.chimesfreedom.com/2017/11/12/c...
Charlie Rich: I Feel Like Going Home
"I Feel Like Going Home" by Charlie Rich is a Pullover song for me. When I first heard it in my car, it was so powerful I had to pull over my car to listen to it.
www.chimesfreedom.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."

This is a fun piece:
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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steveearle.bsky.social
A few moments from Steve's Grand Ole Opry induction in September.
Catch him back at the Grand Ole Opry on November 25, and December 20. Tickets at the link below.

www.steveearle.com/tour
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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worldcafe.bsky.social
Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Amanda Shires about her new album, Nobody's Girl. They talk about Amanda's divorce and how her friend Shooter Jennings and her producer, Lawrence Rothman, helped her craft the emotions she put into the record.
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
At first, Amanda Shires wasn't sure she wanted to write about her divorce : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
On Nobody's Girl, the singer-songwriter offers her perspective on her high-profile split from Jason Isbell.
www.npr.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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zzorgon.bsky.social
#morningmusic

Allison Russell and her husband JT wrote this "as a rallying cry...to rise up, show up & show out - loudly, proudly & persistently for our Democracy." w/Maren Morris Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, Brittney Spencer, Amanda Shires & Emmylou

Morning 🌞

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"Tennessee Rise" by The Tennessee Freedom Singers
YouTube video by Gloria for Tennessee
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November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
pophistory.bsky.social
Rod Stewart once responded to an offhand comment by Paul McCartney to get the former Beatle to write a song for him to record . . . www.chimesfreedom.com/2023/08/07/t...
The Song Paul McCartney Wrote for Rod Stewart - chimesfreedom
Rod Stewart responded to an offhand comment by Paul McCartney to get the former Beatle to write "Mine for Me" for him.
www.chimesfreedom.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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thenation.com
A trial that defined modern justice, retold for an era where its lessons are fading.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nuremberg-holocaust-fascism-accountability/?nc=1&utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Rethinking Nuremberg for the 21st Century
The new film Nuremberg may tell us as much about the present as about the past.
www.thenation.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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ronsexsmith.bsky.social
Some Stylistics music for your Tuesday RS
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RON SINGS "BETCHA BY GOLLY WOW" BY THOM BELL AND LINDA CREED
YouTube video by Rawnboy
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November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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nativerights.bsky.social
Seventeen Native children taken to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the late 1800s have finally returned home. Read about this important step toward truth, justice, and healing after the devastating legacy of the federal boarding school era: buff.ly/N1zhl15

#BoardingSchoolHealing
The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania resulted in the remains of 17 students being repatriated to…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
pophistory.bsky.social
Opioids ravaged Appalachia. I’m one of the survivors. . . www.salon.com/2025/10/11/o...
Opioids ravaged Appalachia. I'm one of the survivors
How I found recovery and redemption — and made amends to my community
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
pophistory.bsky.social
A Sam Cooke song plays a pivotal role in the new Springsteen biopic: www.chimesfreedom.com/2025/11/06/w...
Who Sings the Gospel Song "Last Mile of the Way" in the Film "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere"? - chimesfreedom
A key scene in "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" features Bruce Springsteen and manager Jon Landau listening to a recording of "Last Mile of the Way" by The Soul Stirrers.
www.chimesfreedom.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
pophistory.bsky.social
A key scene in “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” features Bruce Springsteen and manager Jon Landau listening to a recording of “Last Mile of the Way” by The Soul Stirrers. www.chimesfreedom.com/2025/11/06/w...
Who Sings the Gospel Song "Last Mile of the Way" in the Film "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere"? - chimesfreedom
A key scene in "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" features Bruce Springsteen and manager Jon Landau listening to a recording of "Last Mile of the Way" by The Soul Stirrers.
www.chimesfreedom.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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A 1965 interviewer tells Bob Dylan he prefers caruso as a singer. Dylan replies: "I happen to be as good as him... and can hold my breath three times as long if I have to." He'd proved that last claim five years earlier, at age 19, as the "Window" release shows on his 1960 'East Virginia Blues'.
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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boozybluesy.bsky.social
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RODNEY CROWELL

'After All This Tiime'
Rodney Crowell - After All This Time
YouTube video by RodneyCrowellVEVO
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November 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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A Shroud of Thoughts: The Late Great Diane Ladd mercurie.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Late Great Diane Ladd
Diane Ladd, who played Flo in  Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore  (1974) and Marietta Fortune in  Wild at Heart  (1990), died on November 3, 2...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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pearljam.com
"Better Man" at the band’s last show of their three-leg 2000 tour at Key Arena, Seattle.

Relive the whole performance at: pj.lnk.to/20001106

🎥: Touring Band 2000
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
pophistory.bsky.social
Who Sings the Gospel Song “Last Mile of the Way” in the Film “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere”? www.chimesfreedom.com/2025/11/06/w...
www.chimesfreedom.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
pophistory.bsky.social
The famous cowboy ballad “Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie” started out as a song about the ocean. www.chimesfreedom.com/2018/11/13/b...
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie - chimesfreedom
The famous cowboy ballad "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" started out as a song about the ocean.
www.chimesfreedom.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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wolter.bsky.social
As I’ve said for years, Gremlins 2 is the perfect sequel because it deconstructs the need for it to even exist and slams the lid on the idea of a franchise to anyone who pays attention. While still being fun as hell!
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Good to see the Isleys getting some attention. They've been performing (various combinations of the brothers, but always with Ronald on lead) for more than *seventy years* and are still great.
mojomagazine.bsky.social MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 15d
MOJO’s next How To Buy guide is on The Isley Brothers. Reply to let us know what your favourite albums from Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly are and why and we’ll print the best responses in a future issue 👇
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
pophistory.bsky.social
Finally in theater waiting for start of Deliver Me From Nowhere.

Don't ruin it for me whether or not things work out for the singer.
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM