Music reccos/rants/prayers/curses by critic and co-listener Chris Richards
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One question interview with Hiss Golden Messenger
Enchanted memory: spending hours — three? seven? — in the North Carolina basement of songwriter M.C. Taylor on a summer evening in 2014, interviewing him for the newspaper, asking how his record collection informs the artful folk he makes a...
Final frontiers
A recording to listen to on Sunday, November 1, 2026.
Sunday morning is a good time for listening. Time feels different and life feels possible. Each Sunday, I publish a short piece about a recording I find most worthy of these listening h...
Children’s music
In June, when I first heard Olivia Rodrigo, age 23, sing the words “you plus me equals a heart forever,” the dry erase marker in my mind drew a line straight to Antwan André “Big Boi” Patton, age 23 in 1998, rapping, “The United Parcel Serv...
Fear of music
A recording to listen to on Sunday, October 25, 2026.
Sunday morning is a good time for listening. Time feels different and life feels possible. Each Sunday, I publish a short piece about a recording I find most worthy of these listening h...
Voices I don’t wanna understand
A recording to listen to on Sunday, October 18, 2026.
Sunday morning is a good time for listening. Time feels different and life feels possible. Each Sunday, I publish a short piece about a recording I find most worthy of these listening h...
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