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: #6 on the Hot 100Streams: 170,000You might assume Aerosmith is the only act with a hit single about romance in a stuck elevator. But 12 years before they blessed us with “Love in an Elevator,” Paul Nicholas delivered “Heaven on the 7th Floor.”Here’s the song’s plot: A guy is in an elevator with a woman, and when he asks her out, she says, “Never!” But then — oops! — the elevator gets stuck. As they’re waiting to escape their tiny metal prison, the dude starts thinking romance is in the air.
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1 month ago |
thefoodsection.com | Mark Blankenship
There are secrets in the fruit tea at Gallatin High. About 10 years ago, a parent passed the recipe to Kay Page, an assistant to the school’s band program who also runs the concession stand during football games. The drink quickly became a sensation. Assistant Principal Johnnie Anderson told me the school sells between 20 and 25 gallons at every game. “If there’s a night they run out before I get my cup, it’s very disappointing,” he said.
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1 month ago |
thefoodsection.com | Mark Blankenship
One of Nashville’s best meat-and-threes is only open 90 minutes a day, four days a week. It doesn’t take reservations. It doesn’t have a sign out front. In fact, it’s not even really a restaurant. It’s Community Lunch, a program hosted by The Scarritt Bennett Center since 2018. A nonprofit conference, event, and community space, Scarritt Bennett sits on an 11-acre campus in Music Row.
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1 month 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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Mar 26, 2025 |
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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In Nashville fruit tea inspires legends, secrets, and scandals. I've got all the juicy beverage stories over at The Food Section. https://t.co/UtCfTacjAK
I just wrote about one of the most usual and satisfying places to eat lunch in Nashville... The @ScarrittBennett Center. The food is great, and the atmosphere is literally heavenly. It's a hidden oasis in the chaos of the Music Row area. https://t.co/EKxpz9CITU
I'm writing about Michelle Branch's brief (yet remarkably successful) run in country music. https://t.co/U6O05A2Rvv https://t.co/9QPnvlCNoX