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.
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
to me 🍄A big, HUGE THANK YOU
…to all of my subscribers, encouragers, and particularly the writing community1 of
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:
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.
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.
Thank you for reading. And please tell others.
I’ll make it easy for you:
Particularly
, and my dude Kevin Levin at , 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, .
Congratulations!
Congrats dude! BIG landmark that most fail to land. I’m proud of you man 🤘