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Recommended by Bob Beatty/Long Live the ABB

Rock Talk Studio BLAST!!

By Big Rick

The latest rock 'n' roll book buzz and documentary news

Soriano's Circus

By Scott Soriano

Politics, records, books, and life...

mackenzie’s Substack

By mackenzie quinn

My personal Substack

Will Hermes: New Music + Old Music

New music worth hearing. Old music worth remembering. Deep-dive playlists. Record reviews. Books. Concerts. New York City. Lou Reed. Genre-fluid.

A Place Where No One Can Find Me

By M.C. Taylor

A new Substack by Michael Crow Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger.

The Mixtape

By Michael Elliott

News, reviews, and interviews of music makers and soul shakers.

Auraist: picking the best-written books

By Sean McNulty

Trusted by 50K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch.

A Zebra Without Stripes

By Holly Berkley Fletcher

Wandering and wondering through an evolving faith, a cross-cultural life, this authoritarian moment, and all kinds of random other stuff.

A must-read for this day and age.

- Bob Beatty/Long Live the ABB

Guitar Talk

By Joel Harrison

Creative music, guitars, life in the arts, short stories, backstage chatter

Civil War Memory

By Kevin M. Levin

Reflections on the History and Legacy of America's Bloodiest and Most Divisive Conflict

I’ve followed Kevin from platform to platform, beginning with Ta Nehisi Coates’s amazing blog on the Atlantic. Kevin is one of the finest historians I know. He’s also a teacher at heart and a helluva writer.

- Bob Beatty/Long Live the ABB

Listening Sessions

By Robert C. Gilbert

For those looking for thoughtful writing on great music.

Low Down and Dirty

By Alan Paul

Interviews and insights, mostly about rock and blues music, but also sports, fatherhood and expat life from 3X New York Times best-selling author Alan Paul. “A one-man music mag from rock’s finest narrative storyteller.” – Ted Drozdowski, Premier Guitar

The dean of Allman Brothers Band historians, Alan Paul is a music lover at heart. And it comes through in his writing and his interviews.

- Bob Beatty/Long Live the ABB