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countrywol.bsky.social
Songwriter, editor of A Country Way of Life (countrywol.substack.com), writer (jonnybrick.com for portfolio), founder of the Football Literary Society and Watford FC sceptic. Avuncular. Latest books: A Dylan A Day, Country Music Calendar
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No starting Academy-reared players for #MUFC today. Rotten.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

If she had been raised in New York and he in Tennessee, Dolly Parton (January 1946) and DJ Trump (June 1946) could have been in the same school class. Isn't it amazing that one country, in the same year, begat these two?

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Language matters. One is euphemism, one is structural racism. In 1930s Berlin, 'the Aryan race' was euphemism. Anne, whose Autocracy Inc looks essentialer by the day, should be chronicling these turns of phrase so we can play bigot bingo.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

This is all they can do: statement, question, no conclusion. From the people that helped Brexit, Johnson and misinformation get over the line. Put someone on Musk, get them to report on him every day. Why not the mighty Rianna Croxford, when she's not busy purusing the Diddy case?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

All staff should take redundancy and let a group of grads take over. What a shell of an organisation. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

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Garrett Bradford is a seriously good #country act from Weatherford, Texas, and I caught up with him to promote the first part of his Honkiest of Tonkers project, which is out today. We chatted about truckin' songs, his dad Milt and the TV show Yellowstone. countrywol.substack.com/p/garrett-br...

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#wheresfarage? Digging a hole for his political career. He'll be gone by Easter if he's got any gumption. Let's get Tony Diver or Noa Hoffman to do a job on him; that's how British media works. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The most impressive bit of self-flagellation since David Conn did his book Richer Than God. Well done to Clive Myrie for doing this timely series. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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Has someone written a piece on how Kevin Parker, Justin Vernon and Adam Granduciel have brought indie-rock to the pop charts, with Dua Lipa, Kanye and Sam Fender respectively? Ditto Joel Pott of Athlete helping George Ezra. Hurrah for indie kids stepping up to work on blockbuster albums.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

@thespectator1828.bsky.social 197 years defending Conservative values and liberal democracy. What's your next move, Gove/Marshall/Moore?

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social Are we going to get an excoriation of how your employer also paid a man who worked for RT and who brought through Brexit, but who as you noted is mute today? #wheresfarage If not, I'm going to call up and demand you do so!! I know what the number is!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

#wheresfarage Today he's mostly in Dubai with Richard Tice's partner. Or maybe he's gone to Germany to help Alice Weidel with the war effort. This would make sense, given Farage was born in Germany.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

#wheresfarage He's hiding in the same fridge they pushed Johnson into back in 2019 to stop him talking to Piers Morgan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp9X...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

First the Telegraph breaks the suitcases of wine story, then the Sun topples Johnson. Why is it always, ALWAYS the friendly press turning villain and helping to nobble the Tories when they need to be? It's awful, isn't it, and veeeery obvious.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments