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Marissa R. Moss

@marissarmoss.bsky.social

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Journalist, mom, Nashvillian, etc. Wrote a book called HER COUNTRY for Holt. Writing one now for Hachette called I'VE BEEN A BAD, BAD GIRL. Don’t Rock The Inbox newsletter: https://www.dontrocktheinbox.com

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · Jul 24

Ya goddamn right I’m flexin’! (It’ll make sense I promise)

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How Tyler Childers Made the Most Visionary Country Album of the Year

He’s an arena-filling Nashville outsider who wrote a Black Lives Matter anthem and put a gay love story in a music video. Now, fresh off a pilgrimage to India, he's releasing his spiritual and artisti...

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 21h

He’s gonna be so mad CNN called him
a country singer

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 1d

Or DO AN INTERVIEW to clarify the positions he believes people take out of context!!!!!!

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 1d

And now the man posts something about how he’s shocked his short clip mentioning ICE was so divisive. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 1d

everyone getting all riled up for this Zach Bryan snippet but for all we know the second verse could be like "but I still think women shouldn't have the right to vote" might just wanna hear the whole thing

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 1d

asked Kelsey Waldon to answer our DRTI questionnaire and she did not dissapoint!

Kelsey Waldon Answers the DRTI Proust-ish Questionnaire

For as long as I have been living in Nashville, Kelsey Waldon has been making her own kind of country music. I remember the first time I heard that voice, the voice John Prine said he’d listen to sing...

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 2d

Now this is truth

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 2d

may need an emergency newsletter session

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 2d

lord. this grammy season gonna be a whole ass shitshow

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 2d

o no

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 2d

is he gonna fist fight Jesse Welles next what's gonna happen

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 2d

Zack Bryan does anti-ICE song **calls emergency don't rock the inbox meeting**

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 2d

Spent the afternoon w/Madi Diaz on a picnic bench in her front yard to talk about her new album, Fatal Optimist, for the New York Times. The album is an absolute stunner, bare and brave and completely vulnerable - it’s artists like Madi who truly make this town special.

Madi Diaz: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Pop, and Beloved by Both

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 2d

I know I am not really the best source on this as its what I do for a living, but I really do think the TS record would have benefitted from being contextualized by some really in depth print profiles. even just one smart one!

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 5d

or...I'm gonna do it on Don't Rock the Inbox :)

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 5d

@carlzoilus.bsky.social got it right. if I'm not valued enough to hire full time why would I risk my family's safety to write a dick wagging neg review somewhere when I can just cover shit I like. And if I am gonna risk my safety (believe me, I do + have) it's gonna be for reporting that matters.

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 5d

file under: music journalism, in general

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

you couldn’t pay me to have an opinion about t-swift’s new record. or i mean, you could, but you won’t, and no one has enough money anymore to make the opinion worth having, so here i stand, opinionless

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 6d

I thought this was the Onion. I mean, truly.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 6d

to be fair I spent childhood summers in Austin when my dad lived there....so you can call me Texan-adjacent

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 7d

thank you Jake - and you won't regret it!

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 7d

it really kept me going through some tough times lol

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 8d

Appreciate that so much Carl!!

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 8d

I used to keep this photo at my desk. It reminded me that every mother, even Beyoncé, is still a…mother

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 8d

wrote about seeing two guys for whom writing and singing good country songs is a way of life, even for rooms of a few dozen people www.dontrocktheinbox.com/issue-118-a-...

Issue #118: A Weekend With Iconic Songsmiths

Small rooms, acoustic guitars, and country tradition without pretension

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Jeff Yerger @jyergs.bsky.social · 8d

This is such a great quote

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Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 9d

Then why does my heart feel so cold

Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 9d

Marissa Moss is on a hot streak right now.

Marissa R. Moss @marissarmoss.bsky.social · 9d

TWO SOUTHERN JEWISH GALS WALK INTO A BAR....I spent AmericanaFest with Karly Hartzman (aka "goth Dolly Parton," thanks Missy Dabice) and profiled Wednesday for GQ. And yes, the album is as good as everyone says it is
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