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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15h

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. But give a monkey a beer and some fireworks, and the weekend starts here.

Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's been too long since I spent time with my pedal steel. It sounds like a dream even with old strings. When I get this bloody Blindfold Test book finished I'm going deeeep into this instrument.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think I would consider doing something drastic if I could get the lap steel tone that whichever Gutierrez brother it is who plays it here. I guess I'm going to have to spend a shit load of time shedding my pedal steel, which is a proper instrument compared to my $300 lap steel.

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Los Ojos Del Cóndor, by Hermanos Gutiérrez

10 track album

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even though it's a 1 run game I've had enough of the gambling and shave yr junk commercials so I'm out.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's international translation day, so here's the newest translated book originally published by @dukepress.bsky.social. This is the French edition of Jonathan Sterne's Diminished Faculties, published by Philharmonie De Paris Editions.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tonight I learned that Copilot can rescue a failing pizza place and the lesser Kelce held up a bottle of yellow liquid, said data centers need water, and then touted some beverage's ability to make piss, which is good for data centers also, I guess, maybe. Also, ask your doctor about Skyrizi.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I haven't followed MLB this year and I'm just now seeing that .316 was enough to win the AL batting title. Seems low. Is it because almost everybody throws 98+ cheese? Or that bullpens are used differently? Bigger zone?

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Damn, every sentence in this goes hard.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Wendy's emo album is a fucking banger.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Book folks going to the Frankfurt Book Fair next week: hands up if you're ready. Me neither.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's pretty easy for me to claim ignorance about some pop culture phenomenon, for the main reason being that I a) most likely don't give a fuck and b) I live under a rock, which is nice and cozy. Most of the time.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A real headline from Publisher's Weekly: "SeaWorld Wants To Make You Horny." That is all. Carry on.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right now I am reminding myself just how bloody good the Evans/LaFaro/Motian trio was. If someone plucked them out of the 60s and dropped them fresh into 2026, I think they would seriously fuck some people's ears up. Including mine.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just got a 2nd trumpet + fx/bass + fx/drums trio promo in 10 days. With 10% precincts reporting in, this might be pretty good. But, is there a effects starter pack for trumpet out there? A lot of similar rigs: big reverb and delay, w/ optional pitch shift/chorus/harmonizer. What's in the water?

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember how yesterday I posted that everything from my home state of Idaho is bonkers? Well, here's another one. I don't know anything about this guy, but I fully endorse this dude's bonkers message.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just saw Ken Pomeroy play and it was so good. If she comes to your town and you can go, then you do that. Her voice is a force of nature and her songs are scary good. She has an amazing stage presence and is a master of the dark art of stage banter. Best show I've seen in a long time.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The news from my home state is almost universally bonkers. Most of the time it's a really bad or unfortunate bonkers. This time it's a what in the hell, ok then, not horrible for once bonkers.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great article. I'm usually immediately cynical about claims like "lost masterpiece" or hyperbolic "missing link" or "Holy Grail" labels. But Mark Stryker makes a really good case for why the Tiberi Tapes are worth the hype. It seems like there is some legit new aspects of Trane to hear.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This better be true. If not I will be highly disappointed.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Almost 4pm and I'm just now starting to working the things I wanted to begin my day with. Am I gonna be ready for the Frankfurt Book Fair in like 10 days? What a silly question, of course not.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Press releases where all I can do is click a link to buy or pre-order the album instead of giving me a way to access more than the first single is useless. It might as well be the first lesson in "How not to get Chris to cover this album."

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TFW you buy a digital album and none of the files are tagged. I can hear @abstracttruth.northsky.social stroking out all the way up in RVA from here.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just learned there is a book rights territory called The Sandwich Islands. I don't care what I have to do, I will license the rights of some book, doesn't matter, to the Sandwich Islands. I can imagine the Publishers Weekly rights roundup email now....

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I want ducks so bad. Even when they aren't happy they make happy sounds. At least happy to my ears.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Chet Parker sure could play the shit out of the hammered dulcimer. $5 well spent. Thank goodness for Smithsonian Folkways.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My book pitch that I began with chicken mcnuggets did not have the intended result.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I found Ornette's Sound Museum the other weekend. I hadn't heard it before and it was blowing my mind. And then I got to the vocal track that sounded like it belongs in a soap opera soundtrack and I was so confused. It almost killed the album for me. Nobody asked Ornette "are you sure?"

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Johnny Janot will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran. For real though, this album slaps.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Trane is like 100 years old and stuff, but I am celebrating the 2 minute anniversary of the birth of my post-punk scuz-rock janglegaze band Goth Balls.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today I learned that there are anti-vaxxers who won't give their dogs their rabies shots because they are afraid their dogs will get autism. Good lord people really are stupid. There's no cure for rabies and it will kill you. It's not how I'd like to check out.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well this hits unexpectedly hard.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years since I asked William Basinski to copy some tapes for me and he ruined them. I’m still mad about it.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Send these two out to sea in a rickety rowboat with no oars. I'll pay somebody to do it. It will be a public service.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My September 11 post is just this picture of my pre album title change pressing of Jimmy Eat World's fka Bleed American. I haven't listened to it in forever. Does it hold up? 21-year-old-heart-on-my-sleeve-me loved it to pieces.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My alma mater spent what seems to be a stupid amount of money on an ad to promote(?) their football game against their cross border rivals. I wonder how much it cost to license the Future song. I gotta admit, the special one-game helmets look dope though.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've seen and read some really dumb book publishing takes today. I will now do my best to forget that nonsense by listening to some pop music from Mali from the 1970s.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Strokes, all day, every day. It's brevity is part of its perfection.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trying to finish writing a book while taking up the pedal steel guitar.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hands up: who else has the 10" pressed on orange sherbet colored vinyl? So what if I'm 46 now, this still rocks my shit.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It seems like at the moment if you're a horn player and you're not at least dabbling with effects, you're doing music wrong. This is not a knock, just an observation.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My wife says I can't take Jason Momoa. I beg to differ.

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Women in Jazz Media @womeninjazzmedia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Brilliant article by Terri Lyne Carrington in the JazzTimes Terri Lyne Carrington Remembers Dottie Dodgion www.jazztimes.com/features/tri... Photo courtesy of Wayne Enstice #legacy

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If I was a fictional writer, I think that I would write a story, novella, or something where the entire world building consisted of this tunnel of arugula. That's it. World built.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Depending on what part of my manuscript you look at, I'm somewhere between the rough and 2nd draft stage. But I seem to spend most of my writing time in the manic crayon stage (as seen here) which often seeps into my final final draft stage.

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As you might be able to gather, I really like Tyshawn Sorey's Members....Don't! Don't believe me, read my review in the new issue of Point of Departure (scroll down)

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Moment's Notice (page 4)

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My bundle of nerves dog just gave me a wet willie and it feels like 108 outside. So how's your Friday going?

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is wild and spot on. I was born in Nevada, then lived in Alaska, went to college near Portland, spent most of my life before 28 in Idaho, and had tons of friends as from California. My time in North Carolina has not seemed to rub off on me. Also, Big Data, you're welcome.

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