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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 20h

Ladies Auxiliary is a keeper, too! I appreciate that he's focused on home and it's gotta be lonely and exhausting to tour all the way up to my drizzly, mossy corner of the country. So I just have to hope I get lucky on some future trip east.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cheers for noting the Scott Miller, an overlooked masterpiece. Hope to see him live one day, but I guess I'm going to have to be driving distance of the Shenandoah Valley to do it.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Anyway, everybody go read Nathan Vass's amazing book "The Lines That Make Us."

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a former 71/72/73/76/77 guy, it feels sorta boring just walking to light rail.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Alex, I still send this piece to friends who want to know what this class was like. I have a lot of feelings today, and I can picture all of us in that room (with the locked door!) so clearly.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Are you (or is someone you love) a dynamite lawyer who wants to protect the environment? Yes? Well then, hit this link and let's work together in the Washington Attorney General's Office Environmental Protection Division! www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wash...

governmentjobs.com

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The best music writing helps us hear the songs differently, learn about the artist in a way we didn't expect, and know ourselves and our culture a little better. Dangit if this piece by @natalieweiner.bsky.social doesn't crush it on all three: newrepublic.com/article/2147...

newrepublic.com

Dolly Parton Never Wavered

From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When the Browns got him, I figured I'd put my fandom (I was 11 for Red Right 88, I'm old) on hold for a few years. Looks like it'll be a bit longer, and it makes me so sad. That city and fan base deserve so much better.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If AI had first solved the problem of the constantly broken network connectivity of home printers, we would all welcome it as a liberator.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ugh mom and dad are fighting again (about Megan Moroney)

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Just listened to "Loser on the Ropes" again. Great frickin record.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

one under-appreciated thing about living in #Washington is that often, when filling out your address in online forms, when you have to select the state you can just hit "W" and enter or click.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

People, do yerself a favor and sub to Don't Rock the Inbox. Smart folks who can write really well delivering excellent taste to your email. What are you waiting for?

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

holy cow is this what I needed tonight. I love how completely she knows how to use her voice in service of these songs. Grateful that I got to see her a couple times.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

^^ yep. Reading criticism should be fun! I love finding new critics with humor and insight and taste (and, above all, writing chops) that overlaps but does not equal mine. I don't listen to much emo, but dang I'm gonna read anything by Hanif Abdurraqib because his prose is beautiful.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

And Washington State Attorney General (and my boss) Nick Brown (Survivor season 2)

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

So much to love in this movie. The scene riding up the Nordstrom elevator with a Muzak version of Smells Like Teen Spirit playing is *perfect*.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

"Phone call from Leavenworth" burned the ears right off 1991 me.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Such great hooks, such awesome turns of phrase. And accessible! How is he not huge?

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I guess what I love about Brian's songs is those moments when he captures subtle things ("said that what you wanted/Was a massive life/Stocked full and paid full price") and this song felt more like sad pity expressed through smug contempt for flyover country. I think he's better than that!

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Sure, lots of people do! It is common and sort of cheap! That's why I expect smart songwriters to do a little better.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Love this album! But if we ever meet, I need him to atone for his disdain for Cleveland.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Yes! Also? I wish people would give up on the take that "this thing you enjoy is Bad, Actually, and you should feel bad for enjoying it."

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The best reason to get a liberal arts education is to be able to laugh out loud at jokes like this

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I put that album on at work a couple weeks ago and had to stop it after 30 seconds because I didn't have time to sob at my desk that day.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

To be clear, it seems correct that working as a journalist with a good mentor/editor for two years is better and certainly more economical than J school. But it's not because journalism schools spend too much time teaching you how to write well.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Found the @joeposnanski.com middle reader section at Loganberry Books

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

One extra-fun part of this "don't go to journalism school, they'll only teach you that journalism is good" piece is that the author's shining example of an AI-adoring reporter ... went to journalism school: www.cleveland.com/staff/hdrown/

cleveland.com

Hannah Drown, cleveland.com

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

(raising arizona voice) I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

When he played Climate Pledge this fall, I swear he told a five-minute story about how much he loves the Mariners and Cal Raleigh.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Better things was sooooo good! And got better and better the farther it got from LCK.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

ST quoted him today saying he had no idea what was going on, and that he was always taught to pick up any loose ball, so it was just habit.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Just remember that Three Days of the Condor is a Christmas movie.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

For whatever it's worth, I saw him here in Seattle this past year and it was super fun. There's still more than a little Elvis impersonator in there.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

You deserve a break! But if you've a mind to write some more, here are a few good ones that I don't know if you wrote about this year: - Drake Milligan, Tumbleweed - Julianna Riolino, Echo In The Dust - Adam Wright, Nature of Necessity - May Erlewine, What It Takes

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

To cheer you up, here's a photo of T Mobile Park last night. JN 4life

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Gamelan envy isn't pretty. Go Wes!

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It was the hardest citecheck and edit I had any part of (check out some of the sources cited - for one I relied on my own personal cassette of a pre-stardom Dixie Chicks album) but I assure you everything MLR published got checked from stem to stern.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

(raises hand) Sigh. I was there when we published it. It had been accepted two volumes earlier, and the editing and citechecking took so long that it didn't get published until 1998.

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

YES re: Bill Withers. Watch him start "Use Me" on acoustic guitar, and tell me that's not a folk-soul song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luzl...

youtube.com

Bill Withers - Use Me (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972)

YouTube video by BillWithersVEVO

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This is such a lovely conversation. Thanks so much for sharing it with us (the world).

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Bill Sherman @billsherman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If you'd like to read the work of the best writers on country music in the biz, subscribe to DRTI. Super fun, insightful, and smart.

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