A Note of Gratitude

Thanks to y’all, I’ve just hit a milestone

Just got notice that Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads of southern music, history, and culture has just hit 1,000 subscribers. The actual number is way less important to me than the fact that it keeps growing.

Thank you note Ernest Tubb would send to bands who appeared at his world-famous (now closed) store at 417 Broadway in Nashville.

More important to me is when I stopped and looked at all I’ve published on Substack in the last six months.

When I reviewed them I thought, “Damn, son…that’s some QUALITY shit there!”

I’m also super happy with the visual look of the photographs I’ve chosen to represent the posts. It SCREAMS

Long Live the ABB

to me 🍄

A big, HUGE THANK YOU

…to all of my subscribers, encouragers, and particularly the writing community¹ of

Substack

Substack Writers

for helping me fulfill my dreams as a writer and historian.

All of these posts are available at https://longlivetheabb.substack.com, here are two from earlier this year you might want to revisit:

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When I talk about ‘At Fillmore East,’ which version am I referring to?

There’s so many different versions of At Fillmore East. As I wrote Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East, I listened incessantly to the original 7-track album to better understand Duane’s artistic choices.

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Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas

Some love for an overlooked album. In the preface to Play All Night (posted here), I include a story of buying Wipe the Windows the day after seeing the ABB for the first time in November 1993.

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Thank you for reading. And please tell others.

I’ll make it easy for you:

1. Particularly

Creative Hackers

A Zebra Without Stripes

Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

,

Christian Nightmares

and my dude Kevin Levin at

Civil War Memory

, who I first discovered in the comment section on Ta Nehisi Coates’s old Atlantic blog (where I learned the joy of online discourse). And the O.G. IMNSHO,

Ted Gioia

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