
Thoughtful conversations and essays about craft, work, and the creative life—rooted in East Nashville and reaching outward.
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Saturday was supposed to be the debut of The Medium Heroes, my new bluegrass band, at the Shelby Block Party in East Nashville. We’d rehearsed twice. We had arrangements. We were ready.
Then the sky fell out.
I’m standing behind the stage...
I just turned 50.
I feel pretty young. Except that I'm drooping more. Annoying but I am reminded of my favorite quote in all literature, from Mortals by Norman Rush:
"We are all doomed slumping puddings trying to stay hard for as long a...
There are very few things that truly matter in a human life and probably the most important is the search for, and the occasional finding of, meaning. There role music plays in that search is well known, both by the human community at large...
Jordan Ritter Conn spent years interviewing more than 50 men about the parts of their lives they’re not supposed to talk about. Sex, trauma, violence, loneliness, the gap between the ideal they inherited and the person they actually are. He...
Tonight's the thing. 100 episodes of the Morse Code Podcast, celebrated at The 5 Spot in East Nashville. 6 p.m. Guests from the show - Bre Kennedy, Andi Marie Tillman, Tyler Merritt, Leah Blevins, Tim Easton, Ryan Rado, Jessica Willis Fishe...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Korby Lenker is a songwriter, writer, and host of Morse Code, a long-form conversation series about craft, work, and the creative life—rooted in careful listening, honest questions, and the long road of making things that matter.
Author of AMERICAN MEN (4/21/26) and THE ROAD FROM RAQQA. Senior Staff Writer, The Ringer.
Welcome to The Alchemist Newsletter community. I write songs and now here I am writing thoughts about finding the flower in the concrete in something I am creating called "THE ALCHEMIST NEWSLETTER" each Monday. Here's the alchemist
I multi-instrumentalist in Nashville, TN who has worked on every side of the music business. These days I play a weekly bluegrass gig, play pedal steel on sessions, and drink a lot of coffee.
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