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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 1h

Join Wednesday Knudsen this coming Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm ET for a listening party & exclusive preview of her forthcoming masterful double LP ATRIUM! RSVP:
wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/merch/atrium...

Atrium Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen

Listening Party from Wednesday Knudsen.

wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 6d

Today we release the 2nd single off Wednesday Knudsen's double LP, ATRIUM. Skyline I is a deep & expansive melody of arching arpeggios, evoking Lynchian scenes of a stark winter forest or a city coming into view from a vast desert landscape. Listen: wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 7d

"The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains in a stunning reflection of the jagged landscape." Thank you @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social for this review of Wednesday Knudsen's "Fair Aegis" off her 2xLP ATRIUM, out 10/24

www.ravensingstheblues.com/wednesday-kn...

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 9d

Pre-order Wednesday Knudsen's double LP ATRIUM, out 10/24 on SPINSTER & Feeding Tube Records wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 10d

"Fair Aegis" turns drone into the primer for the painting, adding brushstrokes of sax and synth that play at the speakers like light through the trees in Knudsen's upstate NY surroundings. The piece raises from the canvas to the canopy, echoing out over the mountains. bit.ly/3VFZgm0

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 9d

FBD is back bb! Episode 1 is on the fascinating folk musician, bean cooker, and horse girl Karen Dalton 🫘🐎🪕

The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 9d

We kick off Season 2 w/ the late great Karen Dalton! We chat about who and how she was “in her own time”: a sublime, confident folk musician & interpreter who made everything she played sound like a Karen Dalton song.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

S2 Episode 1: Do It Or Die!: On Karen Dalton

Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 09/29/2025 · 53m

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 13d

Mind massage 💆‍♀️

S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · 13d

Today we share the video for "Fair Aegis," the 1st single off Wednesday Knudsen's forthcoming double LP, ATRIUM. Shot, produced & edited by Knudsen, the video is an homage to the leaf-light and light-ways of her home's hillside setting in NY's Taconic Mountains 🍃⛅🍂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5hc...

Wednesday Knudsen - "Fair Aegis" (Official Video)

YouTube video by SPINSTER

www.youtube.com

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 14d

All my favorite records have one thing in common: Danny Thompson
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds

The bassist, who has died aged 86, was an extraordinary and wildly versatile presence in British music, bringing his personality into everything he played

www.theguardian.com

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 16d

WE'RE BACK FOR ROUND 2!

Season 2 Episode 1 drops next week with new eps monthly

The Female Bob Dylan @thefemalebobdylan.bsky.social · 17d

They’re Back and They’re PISSED: The Female Bob Dylan Season 2!

*New Bits & Rants*
*New Female Bob Dylans*
*New Corporate Sponsor*

🥊🫖🐍🪿Put on the kettle, grab that heirloom quilt and pull it up over your head cause it’s time for ROUND 2! 🥊🪿🐍🫖

Episode 1 drops 9/29

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 18d

The doc told me that in order to heal my plantar fasciitis I can’t ever go barefoot and now I feel like a never-nude for feet

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 24d

My all-time favorite YouTube. RIP! youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...

Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)

YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 29d

I'll be at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, VA tonight to talk about my @uncpress.bsky.social book Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia. Come out if you're in the area (BYO slaw dogs) birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/about/news/m...

"Making Our Future" with folklorist and author Emily Hilliard - The Birthplace of Country Music

Free monthly Speaker Session at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum Sept. 9, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET. All ages welcome!

birthplaceofcountrymusic.org

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Sep 7

Halloween group costume idea

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thrilled to announce our forthcoming joint release w/ Feeding Tube of Wednesday Knudsen's, ATRIUM, a stunning masterwork & her 1st double LP. ATRIUM will be out 10/24 & you can preorder and listen to the first single "Fair Aegis" on our Bandcamp now wednesdayknudsen.bandcamp.com/album/atrium-2

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Berea College Archives @bereaarchives.bsky.social · Aug 27

Join us on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 5:30pm in the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center as the Summer 2025 Berea Folklife apprentices and their mentor artists present on their summer apprenticeships in blacksmithing, storytelling, weaving, and mandolin luthiery. Dinner will be served!

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Aug 16

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft part of your forearm
love what it loves (brownies).

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Aug 16

This kind of reference point is the sign of a good recipe IMO

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Aug 15

We're hosting another house show next Saturday 8/23, with Philly’s one and only spiritual guitar shrymp Frank Hurricane + traditional banjo tunes and songs from Louisville’s Nadia Ramlagan (Kentucky Wild Horse, Man Eater). Come on by if you're in the area 🦐💛🪕🦐💛🪕🦐

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Aug 12

The WV Living Book Club is reading Making Our Future this year, and I'll be joining the discussion (virtual and irl) on 9/18. More info on how to join via the link! @uncpress.bsky.social wvliving.com/bookclub/?fb...

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Aug 11

. @wvpublic.bsky.social reports on our National Rural Letter Carriers' Association event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the USPS & raising awareness of the invaluable service rural letter carriers provide to their communities. I guess I'm a "postal insider" now 😆 wvpublic.org/story/econom...

Postal Insiders Say Rural Delivery Has Storied Past, Checkered Future In W.Va. - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

More than a century ago, USPS established a rural free delivery service in West Virginia that still exists today. But historians and industry insiders worry there may be risks in its future.

wvpublic.org

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S P I N S T E R @spinstersounds.bsky.social · Aug 8

“Across faded tape hiss and the incidental noise of daily life, [Ella Hanshaw’s] voice remains steady and luminous honoring tradition with self-made testimony.”

www.newcommute.net/feed/2025/8/...

Ella Hanshaw's Black Book — New Commute

Black Book chronicles Maysel, West Virginia folksinger Ella Hanshaw’s musical life with an understated clarity, threading her homespun recordings together into a moving patchwork of country sorrow a...

www.newcommute.net

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Aug 4

Nice coverage of our event with the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Postal Service and highlighting the importance of mail service to rural communities.

www.shepherdstownchronicle.com/news/2025/08...

National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association celebrates 250th anniversary of United States Postal Service

SHEPHERDSTOWN — The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association (NRLCA) held a number of events over the past week, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The Sh...

www.shepherdstownchronicle.com

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Jul 29

“Pelton said Smithsonian officials told them they covered it up because they were "afraid that somebody was going to walk by and see 'Free Palestine' on our mural and get mad and hurt us. And I'm like, 'maybe we are not the problem in that situation.'"

Teen artists portrayed their lives — some adults didn't want to see the full picture

"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.

www.npr.org

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · Jul 22

So much to love about this new RD video--best band, physical comedy, friend cameos, an ode to Charleston, WV--great work by Tijah Bumgarner and crew 💕💕💕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOP...

Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - "Better If You Make Me" (Official Video)

YouTube video by Sophomore Lounge

www.youtube.com

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LT @lou-turner.bsky.social · Jul 16

My book has a cover and is comin atcha this fall via @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social! Twin Lead Lines is out 9/16 🧡✨♾️

www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/twin...

Twin Lead Lines — Third Man Books

Twin Lead Lines , the remarkably original debut from poet and musician Lou Turner , is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of liste...

www.thirdmanbooks.com

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