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Rachel Cholst
@rachelcholst.bsky.social
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Queer country music nerd and journalist, printmaking, Mets convert, yr butch aunt. Editor of www.rainbowrodeomag.com

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So...now the barnstorming games will be BEFORE the regular season? But what about the players who will also be in the World Cup?

Who is flying this plane???

#wpbl
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Chat, why is this happening?
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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They say country music is three chords and the truth, but only a few people sing like they embody that and Mark Currey is one of them. His recent EP Only Sky is full of characters in search of redemption, and Currey makes you believe in the concept all anew.

markwcurrey.bandcamp.com/album/only-sky
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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You know that feeling where you HAVE to tell everyone who even might care a little bit?

Big Ugly by @Fust is one of the best albums I've heard all year. Achingly beautiful, describing simple longings and pleasures and pride of place with unapologetic Southern idioms.
October 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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REVIEW: Mariel Buckley's new album has been haunting me all week -- and I'm glad we can all experience I together. For @NoDepression, I explore the ways in which Buckley's harder edges make for an album that is comforting in spite of its raw vulnerability.

nodepression.org/album-review...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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This dog does not seem to understand that I took the day off and has spent the last hour trying to get me out of bed to make breakfast

(But I'm up at 7:30 cuz my wife made me coffee. How could I refuse?)
October 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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New York! Come to Foley Square tomorrow night and show ICE they're not welcome here!
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Ope
September 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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A huge thank-you to @NoDepression.bsky.social for giving me space to ruminate on the revolutionary potential of queer country for all of us.

In the article, I discuss Julien Baker & Torres; the Indigo Girls; Heather Littlefield and, of course, Lavender Country

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September 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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What do we think, chat?

(Text reads: If Bro Country is what you call current guy country what is the equivalent for the current women’s music ? Just curious 🧐)

#CountryMusic
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August 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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REVIEW: Cam's new album All Things Light transcends genre and time -- a love letter to humanity's capacity for the divine...and the need to stay down to earth. Read my review on @NoDepression.bsky.social!

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#Americana #AltCountry #CountryMusic #IndiePop
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July 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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If you haven't checked out The Barlow's new album High Spirits, do it now. They're the real deal rough-and-tumble country rock and they're only getting better on High Spirits. These are stories of fucking up, trying again, and fucking up anyway -- and they'll keep you going on long nights.
May 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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At last I can know peace
April 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Bella's debut album cover
April 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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She picked up her pizza and brought it with her to snuggle into my leg 🥺
April 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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My hosting plan for Adobe & Teardrops expires on Monday and I won't be renewing it. I've started a second job on top of my day job and @RainbowRodeo.bsky.social is feeling like a very urgent project right now. Please follow me there for my album reviews!
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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In his last few outings, @JohnCalvinAbney.bsky.social has brought us to vast new solar systems of cosmic music, but Shortwaving is a return to earth of sorts. The EP is one half blues and one half meditative jam. Shortwaving is world-weary but beautiful.

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April 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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@BeauJennings.bsky.social keeps it simple on American Stories and Major Chords, a collection of no-frills singer-songwriter tales. He surveys all the sacrifices we make when we commit ourselves to our calling …and finding satisfaction in sticking with it.

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April 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Might As Well Be Ghosts is @ToddFarrellJr's best album to date in a string of gobsmackers. Ghosts refuses to consider any aspect of life a waste of time, and takes pleasure in the paths less traveled, and the hold music has on us all.

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April 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Micah Schnabel is one of my all-time favorites and The Clown Watches the Clock finds him blistering and unsparing, unashamed to discuss the humiliation of poverty that tortured artists only glamorize if they’ve never had to live it.

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March 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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This week's playlist follows a theme: survivors taking stock of what it means to follow your calling

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March 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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INTERVIEW: Grace Morrison puts forth her take on country music and New England folk with her song "Beer In a Teacup"

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March 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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HEY! LISTEN: The Lost Saints deliver some much needed emotion and sincerity on their trad-influenced ballad "The One" which explores the idea of...dating someone who didn't settle down with their high school or college sweetheart? Gasp!

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March 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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PREMIERE: Eric Schmitt's song of everyday heroes "One Of These Days" tumbled out of his pen with divine inspiration -- and it's a beautiful one

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March 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I've committed
March 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM