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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

For the last month or so I've been taking classes at Pottery House Studio here in Bloomington. This is the first piece that I've thrown, glazed, and fired.

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I’m very excited to announce that I’ve signed a contract with @uncpress.bsky.social to write a book about Memphis music. Tentatively titled Memphis in the Meantime: 50 More Years of Bluff City Pop, Punk, Blues, Hip-Hop & Roots Music, it’ll start in the late 70s and end roughly in the present.

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

had the pleasure of writing up Bill Fox's new album Resonance for @pitchfork.com It's his first in 13 years, and who knows when the songs were written or recorded? But they're full of great hooks and timely outrage.

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Bill Fox: Resonance

Read Stephen M. Deusner’s review of the album.

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I spoke to Rhiannon Giddens for Stereogum, and we discussed a variety of topics -- her Pulitzer for "Omar," her upcoming culture festival in Durham, Our Native Daughters, that time she was on "Nurse Jackie," and getting upstaged by a brood of cicadas on her new album. [link just below]

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Wrote about the excellent new album from my old Pilates partner Bonnie "Prince" Billy for @pitchfork.com It's his Nashville country album, with some remarkable writing, playing, and singing. And "Boise, Idaho" is immediately one of my favorite songs of his.

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy: The Purple Bird

Read Stephen M. Deusner’s review of the album.

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Had the pleasure of writing the Wilco cover story for the new issue of @uncutmagazine.bsky.social & came to the realization that Ghost Is Born is maybe their greatest album. The new box set -- and the exclusive covermount CD! -- really expand that world in some beautiful ways.

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Had the honor of talking to Steacy Easton about their great new book on Dolly Parton's "White Limozeen." It's a 2-part Q&A about why it's more fun to write about a flawed album than a masterpiece & how Dolly was redefining herself for a new era in country music.

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Me (far right), my brothers, and Grandmother Love at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Campaign Headquarters, sometime in the late '70s. He was a good president and the best former president of my lifetime.

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Excited beyond words to have a feature in the new Oxford American Music Issue. AND the theme is Memphis, which looms impossibly large in my my musical imagination. AND I got to write about Lorette Velvette! I was obsessed with her cover of T. Rex's "20th Century Boy" back in the '90s.

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The demonic Fosse routine in Smile 2 is my favorite movie scene of 2024. Still not as scary as All That Jazz but close

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Stephen Deusner @stephendeusner.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My wife does latchhook versions of album covers. Here's her latest, hanging at Landlocked Music in Bloomington.

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