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Tom Maxwell

Let Us Now Praise Tammy Rock

Those of you who know me might be a bit surprised by what I’m about to do, which is to make the case for a musical genre. Not only that…

12 min readJul 29, 2021

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Lessons from History

Alpha es et O

The strange story behind the beloved Christmas carol “In Dulci Jubilo”

9 min readDec 21, 2020

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Alpha es et O

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Democrat Man

This is a piece I wrote on Patreon some weeks ago that I’m sharing now. I hope you’ll consider becoming a patron.

5 min readNov 21, 2020

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Democrat Man

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Duets with the Dead

On America’s Necromarket

5 min readOct 31, 2020

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Last Kind Words

The Greatest Blues Song of Them All

6 min readOct 25, 2020

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Last Kind Words

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Bubber, Cab, and the Cotton Club

Menace as sexy energy.

9 min readSep 17, 2020

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Bubber, Cab, and the Cotton Club

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The Fisk Jubilee Singers

Or, The First Time Most White Americans Heard African-American Music

9 min readAug 18, 2020

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Hard Time Killing Floor

The Music of Skip James

10 min readAug 12, 2020

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Communitas

A Musical Case for the Genius of Community

12 min readAug 7, 2020

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Communitas

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Listen To This: God’s Away On Business

Bloody moon rising with a plague and a flood / Join the mob

3 min readJul 13, 2020

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Listen To This: God’s Away On Business

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Tom Maxwell

Tom Maxwell

Tom‘s work has appeared in Longreads, The Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, Slate, Salon, and Southern Cultures, among others. He usually writes about music.

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