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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Happy birthday to Cornbread Harris, who turns 99 today! The birthday party continues with a second show 4/25 after the 1st sold out: app.opendate.io/e/cornbread-... #DeeperBlues @slingshotannie.bsky.social

At left, pose with Cornbread Harris, seated, and Andrea Swensson, standing. At right, book cover crop from Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris by Andrea Swensson, Afterword by Jimmy Jam. (Blue-toned image of Cornbread Harris looking out directly at the reader. Title in blue and white to the right.) At bottom, black strip with white all-caps: HAPPY 99TH TO CORNBREAD HARRIS!

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andreashaw07.bsky.social @andreashaw07.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

What does 100,000 people marching look like? Check this out from Nicole Neri @minnesotareformer.com @statesnewsroom.com #nokings

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I can tell it’s fall because I’m once again contemplating getting bangs and writing a memoir.

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Mpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Check out the “Remembering the Purple One” exhibit featuring display windows on both the first floor and skyway level at LaSalle Plaza. Brought to life by Hennepin Arts working with Rich Benson and @slingshotannie.bsky.social

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Remembering the Purple One

From the dazzling lights of Broadway to captivating concerts, there’s so much to see and do. Downtown Minneapolis has become a vibrant hub of all-things-arts.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2025

I wrote up a little bit more about how Prince took some inspiration from Redford & Streisand in "The Way We Were", and then how that led to a fun conversation with him about intellectual property. (There's a little gift for you at the bottom of this post, too.) www.anildash.com/2025/09/17/a...

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A Way We Were - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Anyone looking for tickets to Martha Wainright at the Hook and Ladder on Tuesday? (She’s playing her debut album for its 20th anniversary!) I bought front row tickets last fall before realizing I would be out of town. Sad for me, maybe happy for someone else?

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Electric Fetus @electricfetusmpls.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Music author and journalist Andrea Swensson will spin for @recordstoreday.bsky.social shoppers at 4:00pm April 12th! Andrea's DJ set will include songs from Cornbread Harris' Deeper Blues release, out on Andrea's label, @slingshotannie.bsky.social Records. electricfetus.com/CustomPage/1...

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Watching Love is Blind (for the local angle, obvy) and there is frankly nothing more Minneapolis than having social media and group chat gossip torpedo everyone’s relationships.

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 25/01/2025

If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I know the pendulum always swings, the arc of justice is long, etc etc, but there is something soul-deflating about companies dropping their DEI initiatives in the blink of an eye. All those hollow promises being eagerly fed into the shredder. How soon before they pretend 2020 didn’t even happen?

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Last night I saw some live music for the first time in ages (thank you @thecurrent.org for the Micro Show) and I had so many thoughts and feelings and afterwards I talked to the artist (Leif Vollebekk) and we nerded out about Prince and cried and damn—I really really needed a night like that.

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just thinking about Prince hanging out at his Kiowa Trail house in the early ‘80s, eating cake and watching Eraserhead on repeat while dreaming up the songs for 1999.

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This excellent list includes @slingshotannie.bsky.social 's DEEPER BLUES!

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

In October I devoured @slingshotannie.bsky.social's great book on Cornbread Harris, a cult hero of the Minneapolis sound who upstaged Elvis and fathered one of the greatest musicians to come from the Twin Cities. She put this collection together, too cornbreadharris.bandcamp.com/album/anthol...

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Anthology, by Cornbread Harris

8 track album

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kd @katalogued.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I love my job as a freelancer. This year I picked up a gig as freelance editor-in-chief of Hennepin History, a publication of the Hennepin History Museum, which comes out twice yearly. This cover! Thank you to @slingshotannie.bsky.social for sharing a poignant excerpt for our latest issue. . .

The latest cover of Hennepin History magazine, which features bluesman Cornbread Harris, a nonagenarian with a warm smile, wearing a suit with a piano tie, sitting in a red velvet chair. The cover line reads “the Father of the Minneapolis Sound. Meet Cornbread Harris, who put Minneapolis Music on the map.”

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I swear half of these weaning tips were also on the brochure I got when I quit smoking cigs. Sorry, baby, your primary source of comfort is unavailable, have you tried walking around the block or calling your grandmother?

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I released two books this year and now I am experiencing a creative-emotional crash so severe that it has me staring out the window and wondering, is it time … could it be just the occasion… to get bangs?

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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

FYI incomplete list of people 86'd by Palmers: Cadillac Abdi aka "Jimmy" Chi 7 Fake Fur David Bus Stop Brown Bag Shovel Monster Jimmy the Cop (Otis) Scott of Scott and Steph Steph Morgan Scarf The Fake Ethiopian Doctor Wrench Head Elvis Sleepy Abe John (w/ the accordion) Native Marty "Ninja" Steve

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

If you see this, post a concert pic you took.

The Revolution playing First Avenue. A bass player, guitarist, and keyboard player are visible on a stage.

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I would pay good money for a cookbook called “This is What You’re Eating” that gives me a shopping list and a daily menu and walks me through how to cook each thing in the easiest possible way. I don’t mind cooking but I’ve had about enough of choosing three meals a day. Enough!

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Andrea Swensson @slingshotannie.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Why hello, I’m here to cleanse your timeline with the beautiful video we shot recently of 97-year-old Cornbread Harris playing his song “Deeper Blues” at Palmer’s Bar, where he still plays every Sunday afternoon. youtu.be/A6N_hxJXZgI?...

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Cornbread Harris, “Deeper Blues” (Live at Palmer’s Bar, 2024)

YouTube video by Slingshot Annie Records

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