Mark Blankenship
Freelance Writer, Editor and Critic at Freelance
Reviews Editor at Primetimer
Co-Host at Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs
Founder of The Lost Songs Project (https://t.co/q2Kc30H5WD). Nashville Bureau Chief at https://t.co/SyDAhBXYCm
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1 week ago |
lostsongs.substack.com | Mark Blankenship
Peak: #9 on the country chart (#87 on the Hot 100? Streams: 2.1 millionDid you know Michelle Branch was briefly a smash at country radio? In 2006, after several years of pop stardom, she joined singer-songwriter Jessica Harp in a duo called The Wreckers. They were instantly popular. Their first single, “Leave the Pieces,” hit #1 on the country chart, and their album Stand Still, Look Pretty sold over 800,000 copies. “Leave the Pieces” pretty much sounds like a Michelle Branch song.
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1 month ago |
realityblurred.com | Mark Blankenship
It would be a relief if Stacy Horn’s latest book were a horror novel. If The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhoodwere fiction, then it would be easier to shake the scenes she describes in the titular Brooklyn community. But Horn’s a reporter, not a fabulist. She’s chronicling the decades of crime that turned a once-prosperous neighborhood into a hellhole.
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2 months ago |
thefoodsection.com | Mark Blankenship
Almost everything we eat has a migration story, but some foods have more than one. Sometimes those disparate narratives make sense together, like when chefs from immigrant families create dishes to fuse the cultures that made them. But sometimes the stories are at odds. They shouldn’t be connected at all, yet there they are, stubbornly co-existing in the food.
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2 months ago |
realityblurred.com | Mark Blankenship
Almost anyone who reads The Man Nobody Killed will know how it ends. Not because they’re familiar with the particular case that Elon Green follows in his latest true-crime opus, but because the basic facts are so terribly familiar. A young black man is beaten to death by the police. Both the man’s family and his community howl with outrage, while the officers involved are acquitted. We’ve heard so many versions of this story. We’re bound to hear more.
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2 months ago |
lostsongs.substack.com | Mark Blankenship
Find all the lost songs! Subscribers have access to our entire archive. —Peak: #1 on the country chartStreams: 8 millionIf you want to understand what heartbreak sounds like, then you need to fire up a Reba McEntire song. Specifically, you need to turn on “You Lie,” one of the greatest torch ballad in country music history. Let’s start with the obvious: The high note Reba hits at the end of each chorus is the reason she’s a star.
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I'm writing about Michelle Branch's brief (yet remarkably successful) run in country music. https://t.co/U6O05A2Rvv https://t.co/9QPnvlCNoX
There's a restaurant in Dayton, TN that contains practically the entire religious history of the town. I wrote about it for Edible Nashville. https://t.co/ITFZI0J6n4 https://t.co/wPotnt7IqN
Friends, let's explore the kolache conundrum. It's a food with competing definitions and multiple migrant stories, but no matter what, it's delicious. Over at The Food Section, I'm investigating how the kolache conundrum plays out in Nashville. https://t.co/FqBHqNd7kw
