Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
—
Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.
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Unwritten Recipes
Chantal Braganza
Anyone who’s lived long enough to learn to feed themselves likely has some kind of biographical dish.
But today that moral arc is as twisted as a gnarled, rotten root, and God Bless America has been
replaced by the mournful dirge of Taps.
—
Marci Alborghetti,
Hartford Courant,
3 July 2025
After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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