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With This Song, I Be Wed: 30 Songs On The Pains and Pleasure of The Wedding Day

Marriage is a particularly curious item in American society. The combinations of romanticism, pragmatism and patriarchy inform an ever shifting social condition. As long as there’s been the concept of a popular song, anyone that got a chance to record more than 10 songs somehow deals with the concept in some circular way. As we…

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Every Friday, during the height of the 1960’s, Motown Records would host quality control meetings that would put recordings against each other for release.
When labors of love come out gorgeous. Many thanks to @keptabsorbed for including me in @diggingsoundcollect’s 2nd volume. Hit them up before the sell out!
Hi Everyone!
A tweet thread: The Supremes weren’t rich, given what they earned in royalties from record sales. Yes they made up some of it from live performances, but exploitation of artists still happens.
We pay tribute to one of the brightest and best:
I just stumbled across this interview Mary Wilson did just 6 weeks ago.
I’m frankly speechless.
There weren’t just Black Women at the microphone, or filling out notes on sheet music. There were the legends that were instrumentalists, and that where we meet Jazz Pianist Beryl Booker.

Got To Say It, Got To Tell It Like It Is

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Thibault on Dear Blondie: A Reflection on…
Jerome M Hopson on Dear Blondie: A Reflection on…
The Candy Bowl: 31 F… on Guys Gone Uptown: 32 Sophistic…
The Candy Bowl: 31 F… on Man Crushes and Masturbatory M…
The Second Heaven of… on Prime Time for ’69: 50 G…
The Second Heaven of… on Not Too Late for more 1968: A…
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