How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Tonight was a very bad night.

Ok I may be biased but Jesse's forthcoming @uncpress.bsky.social book--on the white Appalachian migrant arm of Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalition--is so good, with urgent lessons for anti-racist working class organizing today. John Sayles thinks so too. uncpress.org/978146969396...

“Knudsen deftly uses these basic ideas to create huge worlds.” Read Marc Masters' astute review of Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM in his monthly Bandcamp Daily column of the best new experimental music. Pick-up a copy of ATRIUM on @bandcamp.com daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim...

My parents listened to so much Archie Fisher when I was growing up that his music feels imprinted on my bones. RIP to a giant of traditional music

This actual bandana is part of the collection at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, WV. Well worth a visit wvminewars.org/news/baneban...

For your consideration, @criterion.bsky.social 🐈

We discuss the film's moody representation of the Greenwich Village folk scene and the flattened renderings of its women, the protagonist's "bleak circle of failure," and the hero's journey of the cat Ulysses—and consider where it ranks on our "golden dulcimer" scale of folk music films.

This was such a thoughtful, reverent session, listening to and discussing Ella Hanshaw’s music. Attendees became fans and were singing along by the end. They wanted to take this photo to share with Ella’s family ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Though there's a lot of overlap bet/n @spinstersounds.bsky.social & my folklore work, the Ella Hanshaw record is the first to really bridge those 2 worlds directly. Excited to talk about that with 2 of my favorite feminist folklorists & musicians at the big #AFS2025 folklore conference this weekend.

Guitar mage Tom Carter (Charalambides) on Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP ATRIUM... ATRIUM will be out on digital & CD 10/24. Vinyl has been delayed to 11/28 due to a pressing issue, but it will be here in due time! Pre-order: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm ET for a listening party & exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM! RSVP: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/merch/atrium...

Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24 www.ravensingstheblues.com/wednesday-kn...

Pre-order Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM, out 10/24 on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube Records wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

FBD is back bb! Episode 1 is on the fascinating folk musician, bean cooker, and horse girl Karen Dalton 🫘🐎🪕

Mind massage 💆‍♀️

All my favorite records have one thing in common: Danny Thompson www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

WE'RE BACK FOR ROUND 2! Season 2 Episode 1 drops next week with new eps monthly

The doc told me that in order to heal my plantar fasciitis I can’t ever go barefoot and now I feel like a never-nude for feet

My all-time favorite YouTube. RIP! youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...

I'll be at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, VA tonight to talk about my @uncpress.bsky.social book Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia. Come out if you're in the area (BYO slaw dogs) birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/about/news/m...

Halloween group costume idea

Thrilled to announce our forthcoming joint release w/ Feeding Tube of Wednesday Knudsen's, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork & her 1st double LP. ATRIUM will be out 10/24 & you can preorder and listen to the first single "Fair Aegis" on our Bandcamp now wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

Join us on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 5:30pm in the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center as the Summer 2025 Berea Folklife apprentices and their mentor artists present on their summer apprenticeships in blacksmithing, storytelling, weaving, and mandolin luthiery. Dinner will be served!

This kind of reference point is the sign of a good recipe IMO

We're hosting another house show next Saturday 8/23, with Philly’s one and only spiritual guitar shrymp Frank Hurricane + traditional banjo tunes and songs from Louisville’s Nadia Ramlagan (Kentucky Wild Horse, Man Eater). Come on by if you're in the area 🦐💛🪕🦐💛🪕🦐

The WV Living Book Club is reading Making Our Future this year, and I'll be joining the discussion (virtual and irl) on 9/18. More info on how to join via the link! @uncpress.bsky.social wvliving.com/bookclub/?fb...

. @wvpublic.bsky.social reports on our National Rural Letter Carriers' Association event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USPS & raising awareness of the invaluable service rural letter carriers provide to their communities. I guess I'm a "postal insider" now 😆 wvpublic.org/story/econom...

“Across faded tape hiss and the incidental noise of daily life, [Ella Hanshaw’s] voice remains steady and luminous honoring tradition with self-made testimony.” www.newcommute.net/feed/2025/8/...

Nice coverage of our event with the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Postal Service and highlighting the importance of mail service to rural communities. www.shepherdstownchronicle.com/news/2025/08...

“Pelton said Smithsonian officials told them they covered it up because they were "afraid that somebody was going to walk by and see 'Free Palestine' on our mural and get mad and hurt us. And I'm like, 'maybe we are not the problem in that situation.'"

So much to love about this new RD video--best band, physical comedy, friend cameos, an ode to Charleston, WV--great work by Tijah Bumgarner and crew 💕💕💕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOP...

My book has a cover and is comin atcha this fall via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social! Twin Lead Lines is out 9/16 🧡✨♾️ www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/twin...

Our latest release, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, of previously unheard music by West Virginia songwriter Ella Hanshaw, in @oxfordamerican.bsky.social! ellahanshaw.bandcamp.com/album/ella-h...

Excited to be part of these events with the rural letter carriers union in the place where rural delivery was born. I'll be speaking Thursday evening (drawing from my oral history project w/ rural mail carriers in Appalachia) & moderating the Friday panel www.protectpostalworkers.com/usps-250th-a...

NEW for @hellgatenyc.com: Having failed spectacularly at stopping Mamdani, the Times is now unveiling its tried-and-true strategy to drum up controversy—and question the legitimacy of a person's humanity—by doing the dirtiest of work for the worst-faith actors. hellgatenyc.com/nyt-race-sci...

I would guess that 17 year olds in Uganda and South Africa could probably tell you about as much about the nuances of US demographic categorizations as 17 year olds in the US could tell you about social categories in Uganda or South Africa and it's weird that people apparently think otherwise

The Female Bob Vylan

This is a damning restructuring of our economy, social safety net and tax code which only serves the interest of wealthy CEOs and corporations, predatory for-profit universities, and fascists.

Awful—this is going to be a huge blow to the entire field of Folklore

Can't abide any list of 100 best movies that has no Kelly Reichardt on it

Thought Pavements took a fun, novel approach to the rock doc, mostly avoiding the pitfalls of the genre while simultaneously critiquing it, but it should have been a half hour shorter (less footage of the Pavement musical...and more on Rebecca Cole!). Also fun to spot a @3lobed.bsky.social hat 👀

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

Coming in October and now available for pre-order, our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf who Fought Slavery*, co-written with Michelle Markel and illustrated by Sarah Bachman, to be published Oct. 14, 2025 by @pmpress.bsky.social. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Update on Ernesto, an 18-year-old in Bowling Green, KY who was taken by ICE: “The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with him.”

Another lovely feature on the story of our latest release, Ella Hanshaw's Black Book. “Mamaw didn’t make this music for vanity’s sake. When the tapes were so scratchy and grainy, the point for me was that it was sincere and so direct, straight into your heart.” richmondmagazine.com/news/sunday-...

Lalas = terrible politics + terrible announcing. Always gotta mute any game he calls

i love this *so much*