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The Confederacy built a lasting myth of victory out of defeat. Trump and his followers may, too. By David W. Blight Mr. Blight is a professor of American history, and the author of “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory” and “American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.” Jan. 9, 2021 Confederate veterans at a reunion in Washington in 1917.Credit...Harris & Ewing, via Alamy One hundred and fifty years after the emergence of the Confederate Lost Cause ideology, a n...

The album Steve Earle never wanted to make: a tribute to his son By Ben Sisario Normal text size Advertisement On the evening of August 20, last year, Steve Earle spoke to his son Justin Townes Earle for the last time. Musician Justin Townes Earle died at the age of 38. Credit:Getty In a phone call initiated by Earle’s son, they caught up on family business, and Earle, the country-rock singer-songwriter who struggled with addiction for years, told his son – a lauded musician in his own rig...

Tweet Photo: Shervin Lainez Steve Earle has a lot of experience making tribute records to musicians he’s known, cared for deeply and learned much from. In 2009, he released Townes, in honor of Townes Van Zandt, and in 2019, there was Guy, for Guy Clark. Monday, Earle released a tribute that’s the most devastating of the three: J.T., in memory of his son Justin Townes Earle, who died in August.  J.T. consists of 10 covers plus one new original. The covers are songs Steve ...

J ustin Townes Earle won the Song of the Year prize at the 2011 Americana Music Awards for "Harlem River Blues," the title track of his excellent third full-length album and the most upbeat song about suicide youll ever hear. Its all soaring choirs and pumping organs as the protagonist proclaims, "I know the difference between tempting and choosing my fate." When Earle played the song on David Lettermans talk show (with future star Jason Isbell accompanying on guitar) 10 years ago this mont...

The not-singing bird With endless silence. —David Olney People say it was a poetic exit. I assure you, NOBODY wants to die onstage — figuratively or literally. On Jan. 18, Americana pioneer, singer-songwriter, recording artist, pre-pandemic streamcaster, actor, and my longtime client and good friend David Olney died of an apparent heart attack midsong. He was center stage between Amy Rigby and Scott Miller at the 30A Songwriter Festival in the Florida panhandle. His last words: “I’m sor...

Syrian artists Aziz Asmar and Anis Hamdoun finish a mural depicting George Floyd in the town of Binnish in Syrias northwestern Idlib province on June 1, 2020 [Omar Haj Kadour/ AFP] Earlier this month, BBC Culture published an excellent article by Arwa Haidar exploring the global reach and universal language of the art of protest through the murals painted across the world to honour George Floyd – the Black American man whose killing at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May triggere...

The Album Steve Earle Never Wanted to Make: A Tribute to His Son Less than two months after Justin Townes Earle’s death from an accidental overdose, his father entered Electric Lady Studios to record an LP’s worth of his songs. Recording the album “wasn’t cathartic as much as it was therapeutic,” Steve Earle said. “I made the record because I needed to.”Credit...Meghan Marin for The New York Times Dec. 29, 2020 On the evening of Aug. 20, Steve Earle spoke to his son Justin Townes ...

Bruce Piephoff is a meanderer. Hes a wanderer, a poet, singer/songwriter, a folky philosopher. Hes been settled down now for quite a while with wife Laura and son David, but his thoughts still take him for strolls in a lush, wordy forest. A basketball player in high school at Grimsley, Piephoffs musical journey took him off the boards and onto the road. Initially planning to play basketball at UNC-Chapel Hill, he decided he wasnt destined to be a baller and investigated his musical curiosity in...