Next up is "Sweet Bitter Blues" by #AmandaPetrusich, on her journey to find out why American Blues has a special hold over some Japanese. What resonates with me are her tentative explorations, self-consciously battling reductive distillations, testing her existing ideas against what she sees, hoping to get some measure of things right.

Read it at https://main.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1066-sweet-bitter-blues

More #curated #readings from my #newsletter: https://movableworlds.co/p/landmarkings4

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One great music writer, #AmandaPetrusich slays here with this @newyorker profile of #Metallica...She covers the well-known history of the band with brisk fresh perspective, then updates it with sharp takes on the older wiser humans within these metal gods.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/the-enduring-metal-genius-of-metallica