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See link below for Manson book! American Studies, UMass Boston Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB 🇵🇸 Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson. skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · Nov 12

Start with the debut record by my daughter’s bf Alfredo Colon (Blood Burden). Great alto player and bandleader

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 55m

Oh yeah! Totally a traveling blues line!

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t! Just the music

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11h

That’s Mike Seeger on autoharp for those of you keeping score at home

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11h

Oh I’m so glad

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11h

It’s really something

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11h

Tara Nevins of Donna the Buffalo curated a miracle in 1999 when she invited Native American Moontee Sinqua to sing with her on a song that goes: see you when your troubles are like mine. youtu.be/8DBXxlTYPm0

Troubles

YouTube video by Nancy Nevins - Topic

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 11h

Oh for fucking real? It’s Thom Yorke’s birthday today?

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 12h

I tried that a few years ago and couldn’t make it work—repertoire not there

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 12h

Will!

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh I am going in cold! (Well cold for a guy who has been researching Boston music for a minute)

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 12h

Go!

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 12h

Just got Evan Dando’s memoir.

See you in a bit.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 16h

Check out my latest, this time for Time magazine’s Made By History series:

time.com/7318570/cbs-...

CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades

It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.

time.com

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 12h

Hah yes!

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh it’s awful on virtually every level and my only mitigation strategy is the one my older kid taught me years ago—listen to an act three times and then you have to give them some money

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 13h

Currently listening to John Prine’s All Nite Blue, a song I know like the back of my hand (the one with the scar on it) and man: those two acoustic guitars are having a conversation I never noticed before

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 13h

Nick is one of my longest-standing internet friends and tonight I fell in love with him all over again

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 14h

I switched to lossless streaming on Spotify. Holy. Shit.

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 13h

None! I know I gotta switch to something less evil but for now I’ll take the better sound

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 13h

Nick is one of my longest-standing internet friends and tonight I fell in love with him all over again

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 14h

I switched to lossless streaming on Spotify. Holy. Shit.

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 14h

Please sign if appropriate.

I included my fraternity affiliation and everything so they know they are losing the bros too

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16h

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 14h

Done thanks

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 15h

Yes. Strong union there.

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 15h

🩶

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 15h

Criminal.

The right wing radicals are targeting Mark Bray and putting his family at risk because he...wrote a book.

Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 1d

What's happening to my colleague Mark Bray is disgusting. Him and his family are being doxed and getting death threats by right wing supposed "free speech" advocates bc wrote a book about anti fascism. You can't make this shit up! Our universities must fight back.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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