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S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love Michael Hurley, and this is a great appreciation. "The Tea Song" is always a mid-fall afternoon for me. "Werewolf Song" also a great one from First Songs.

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Gregory Daurer aka Gregory Ego @gregoryego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From Emily Hilliard's biography of Michael Hurley for Smithsonian Folkways...

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grateful to Smithsonian Folkways for the opportunity to write the bio for the late great Michael Hurley as they announce the reissue of his debut album First Songs. Miss the guy and have been thinking of him as cider sipping and tea tasting season rolls around. folkways.si.edu/artists/mich...

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Michael Hurley | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Michael Hurley was a beloved iconoclast who made his 60-year career as a traveling musician and visual artist his own way.

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We boogie on the higher levels (as Judee would say) on this one :)

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Gustaue Flavbert @cataribartok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maddy Prior is the secret champ of the big 3 English folk revival bands!!!!

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Bradshaw Lentz @shawbie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Grey Funnel Line hypnotizes me every time.

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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This morning; Maddy Prior and June Tabor. #nowplaying

‘Silly Sisters’ album by Maddy Prior and June Tabor.

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David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sung acapella, My Husband's Got No Courage in Him on this, in which a woman wishes her impotent husband was dead, is one of the rawest songs I’ve ever heard

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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the best albums.

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For @aquariumdrunkard.com I wrote about my all-time favorite album, Maddy Prior & June Tabor's 1976 Silly Sisters. For me, it finds the perfect middle ground between raw performance and technical skill that was maybe only achievable by this particular cast of characters in that 70s Brit folk scene.

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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The first taste of Lou Turner’s new album, Strangels is a verdant cool down fixed with flute trills, soft strums, and Lou’s painterly visions of uncertain times and an unbuttoning of the soul. The song opens up the new album with a a familiar dose of charm and a satisfying saunter. bit.ly/4xdCUIR

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For the past 3 years, Turner has been steadily touring around the world, but feeling the need for solitary exploration while buoyed by the confidence she gained playing stages from Newport to ACL, she decided to record in her home studio, self-produce & play almost all the instruments herself.

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The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Guided by her writings, interviews & "song talks," we explore her congregational coalition politics, revolutionary organizing through song, transformative contributions as a culture worker at the Smithsonian & Highlander, and clarity of vision that was the backbone of everything she did.

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Based on the trailer, the Bourdain movie looks to be another biopic where the actual person was way more charismatic than the actor playing them

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Grateful to the American Folklife Center at the @librarycongress.bsky.social for their support, which will allow me to continue and deepen my research into the life and work of Kentucky folk musician, folklorist, record label owner & Appalachian advocate Jean Ritchie. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/202...

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Disappointed to see the wholesale embrace of AI by higher-ed administrators--the very places that should be defending, fostering, and celebrating human intelligence and creativity. Highly recommend this piece if you're fighting that fight where you work and teach www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Last day to pre-order! Pre-orders help us know how many shirts to print in what sizes and colors. They also save you $$ and make sure you get what you want! spinstersounds.bandcamp.com/merch

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 18/07/2026

hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

One thing I happen to love in a work of fiction is a character named Bunty

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 11/07/2026

Maybe England could have resisted the Viking invasions if they had had VAR

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

got damn what a hit

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

live by the stutter step, die by the stutter step

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Want to feel old? The Zidane headbutt was 20 years ago today

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sarah Bachman designed the perfect Tarot-inspired SPINSTER archetype for our new @spinstersounds.bsky.social t-shirts. I love how it looks like she's spinning the landscape into her music. spinstersounds.bandcamp.com/merch

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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 08/07/2026

On “Pt. Roadknight”, Leah Senior leans into the hazy fog of late-60s, early-70s folk rock, recorded with a natural analogue texture that lends these songs a human touch. ...there is a fine line between focus and withdrawal, and this album walks it with rare grace. klofmag.com/2026/07/leah...

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Leah Senior – Pt. Roadknight

Leah Senior’s “Pt. Roadknight” leans into hazy late-sixties folk rock — a wonderful album that turns its inward gaze outward with a rare grace.

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Apparently there is no soccer game tomorrow and I dont even know what to do with myself

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

it’s time to do this to the VAR room

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Maybe not the time to say this (or maybe it is!) but I’ve never been a fan of the USMNT—except for in ‘94 when I was a kid and didn’t know any better—and when they didn’t support the USWNT in their fight for equal pay that was the nail in the coffin

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Adam Whittaker Snavely @snaves.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Some real old-school USMNT vibes tonight, you got to hand it to them

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Representing the Belgian-American (Midwestern) contingent

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

you just created a million cape verdes

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The sky outside my apartment looking like actual nuclear winter as Cabo Verde may beat Argentina… that’s the magic of the World Cup baby

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just because we can put microchips in soccer balls doesn't mean we should

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

aint no fuckin way man

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muttgomery.bsky.social @muttgomery.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

had a blast talking about IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO SURVIVE: THE YOUNG PATRIOTS STORY w/ Michael Stauch over at @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social we talk radical rednecks, working class interracial coalition building, and settle the politics of "Okie From Muskogee" once and for all!

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

collage of: a tattoo flash sheet by Des Revol; black face masks; patches reading "fuck 12", "FTP", "ACAB"; a gun; Narcan spray

a pile of zines taken during an FBI raid. on the bottom left is a zine made of a 2019 film review about Midsommar and Hereditary by Sophie Lewis

FBI exhibit file from the Prairieland case of plant propagatoin zines and seeds for garden vegetables

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Oxford American @oxfordamerican.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“The more songs I listened to, the more wine appeared” @emhilly.bsky.social follows a trail of wine-soaked country songs to uncover a history of class, gender, nostalgia, and the changing face of country music. 🔗: shorturl.at/C3t62

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“For the Patriots, the ultimate horizon was always interracial solidarity within the working class. But they felt that the way to get there was to develop a political analysis that spoke to people’s lived reality” Great interview with @muttgomery.bsky.social on his @uncpress.bsky.social book

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Album of the summer (in the Northern Hemi) recommendation!

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

FIFA sucks obviously but wow I love the World Cup

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If you’ve ever wondered why Merle Haggard or George Jones or Porter Wagoner have so many sad songs about wine, I wrote this piece for you 🍷🤠

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Attn: Chicago pals & folks in early for Labor Notes!

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