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Author, songwriter, educator. New book ‘My Black Country’ available now! Purchase my album, 'My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall:
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My 1st album! At 64! What an amazing early birthday present genius women have given me by carving joy & history & love into these tracks! Join the party that began in a Motown cherry tree. Lil, DeFord, Ray, Charley, and Herb, the first family of Black Country, this is for you!
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'My Black Country,' the book, dropped today! In addition to meeting the first family of Black Country, come for the story of the 400 years of music that planted the seeds of Black woman Country genius blooming in the world in 2024. This is our Black Country HERstory!
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Happy third birthday
@BlackOpry
! Thank you for one of the best nights of my life! Nashville is a wild, songwriting, woman town! Our new now! My Black Country, album and book, fully celebrated. Join the party!
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"Essential for country fans—a delightful, inspirational story of persistence, resistance, and sheer love of music."
Pre-order your copy now! Link in bio.
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Oh Happy Day! The first single has dropped. I woke up this morning and had a brand new cut .And it's just the first single. I'm so excited to announce my memoir coming out April 9 enters the world alongside a MUSICAL experience, My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall,
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It's a museum, it's an education, it's an all out celebration of Country, and it's Black as the winning ace of Spades!
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Listen on
@nprfreshair
✨🔔🎙️📻
'Black Bottom Saints' Is A Gorgeous Swirl Of Fiction, History And Detroit Motor Oil'
@BlackBottomSts
@AmistadBooks
@HarperCollins
#BlackBottomSaints
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I loved being a part of this, thank you!
Beyoncé has a new country album. The first single has already broken records and drawn criticism from those who think of country music as a “white” genre. Except it’s not.
@MsAliceRandall
tells the story of country music’s very Black roots.
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XXX's and OOO's performed by my daughter
@caroranwill
is out now!
Pre-order/pre-save 'My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall'
Pre-order the book "My Black Country" here: …
#MyBlackCountry
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Telling untold stories blooms into providing a platform for others to tell untold stories. Thrilled to guest edit the spring 2021 food issue of the
@OxfordAmerican
!
We’re delighted to reveal the cover of our Spring 2021 Food Issue, a celebration of the Southern kitchen guest edited by
@MsAliceRandall
and featuring a cover image by Frank Frances. Subscribe today or pre-order at the link:
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"This spring, Randall will release an album of new renditions of her own music, performed for the first time by Black vocalists. Randall says Black Country is “a hidden trove of Black genius” that has always existed if you only know where and how to look."
So y’all want to talk about
@Beyonce
and
#BlackCountry
music? Good. Our editors put together a reading list just for you.
New from the OA: “Black Country: A Love Letter and Living Archive”
🧵1/6
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I've been working! New book out April 9. Y'all know I know how to throw a real and virtual party. Stay tuned for invitations. Work is done. Big fun coming.
Available for Pre-order now:
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Q&A with Alice Randall: When did you have the idea to re-record your songs? Pre-order your copy of 'My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall:
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📖💗 "I cannot tell you how much I appreciate and really love this book. So many stories, our stories...so many of us NEED to know these stories."—
@whoopigoldberg
BLACK BOTTOM SAINTS by
@MsAliceRandall
is now available in paperback!
@BlackBottomSts
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I am so excited to announce the monument of words built for Black Bottom Saint, LaVern Baker, 2nd woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
TY Siedah Garret, Rosanne Cash, Margo Price & Allison Russell for bringing this to life, & Nwaka Onwusa for helping guide the ship.
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So proud of my daughter!
@caroranwill
"You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument"
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Get Your Copy Here:
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most of my audience assumed the stars of my songs were all white. I wanted to rescue my Black characters. This album does that; it centers black female creativity, but it welcomes co-creators and allies from a myriad of identities. This is the good harvest: abundant love beauty.
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✨🎉Black Bottom Saints is out today 🎉✨
on
@AmistadBooks
Please tag us in your pictures with the book!
#BlackBottomSaints
@BlackBottomSts
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So thrilled for
@BlackBottomSts
to be chosen for
@nytimes
Best Historical Fiction of 2020! 🤎✨🎉
Detroit rises as the Saints come marching in!
@AmistadBooks
@HarperCollins
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“I anticipate that this album is going to take us in a direction that both refines and redefines what country is and takes country up to another level,” said Alice Randall, “That it deconstructs and reconstructs country. That is what modern sounds in country and western do.”
After teasing new music in a Verizon ad that aired during the Super Bowl, Beyoncé has dropped two country hits, “Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages.”
The singles are the first releases of her long-anticipated “Act II” project, debuting on March 29.
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We are almost there! Tomorrow is Release day! Thank you to
@AmistadBooks
and
@HarperCollins
!
Thank you to
@oprahmagazine
for making
@BlackBottomSts
a
#MustRead
✨
And tune in Wednesday to hear about
#BlackBottomSaints
on
@NPR
with
@arishapiro
📻
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All ready to go for a virtual happy hour
@ParnassusBooks1
tonight at 5pm!
Link to the event in my bio ✨
@BlackBottomSts
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Listen to the interview with
@arishapiro
on
@npratc
📻✨
Talking all things
#BlackBottomSaints
@AmistadBooks
@BlackBottomSts
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HAPPY JUNETEENTH! We're thrilled to announce our podcast Black Bottom Saints: A Reader's Companion Listen on
@Spotify
Today we celebrate Juneteenth & the life of Joe Louis
Produced by
@smalldrinkofh20
&
@cjanecrowell
🎶 by
@LouisYorkMusic
&
@RissiPalmer
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Alice Randall’s fifth novel, 'Black Bottom Saints,' is the fictional last will and testament of a real-life Motor City culture maven. Randall will discuss her book online Friday, Oct. 9, at the
@SoFestofBooks
.
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Join us this Sunday the 15th for a virtual Happy Hour with
@ParnassusBooks1
and all of the Black Bottom Saints✨
Live on Parnassus Facebook page. Link to event in bio!
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This Friday ✨ a conversation with
#AngelaDavis
,
@TheBonnieRaitt
,
#Rycooder
&
@rosannecash
for
@AmericanaFest
#ThrivingRoots
Link in bio to the event page ✨✨
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My Black Country: A Musical & Literary Experience
Pre-order the album here:
Pre-order the book here:
#MyBlackCountry
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Love talking to Ari! Joy is radical! Love is the strut! He’s so brilliant. I was nervous, but it was worth nerves to be able to shout up LaVern Baker!
@arishapiro
@npratc
@BlackBottomSts
@AmistadBooks
"Love is the strut, and hate is the stumble."
Wisdom from
@MsAliceRandall
in her new novel, Black Bottom Saints, on
@npratc
.
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coming out on John Prine’s Oh Boy Records on April 12th. Dreams I brought to Music Row forty-one years ago are coming true. Don't give up!
Because all the singers of my songs had been white, because country has white-washed black lives out of country space
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Thank you to the
@nytimes
for bringing Ziggy and
@BlackBottomSts
to your pages ✨
@AmistadBooks
"This Year Is Complicated. Three New Novels Remind Us the Past Was No Picnic Either."
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You can now pre-order Alice's new book
#BlackBottomSaints
"An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit’s legendary neighborhood, a Mecca for jazz, sports, and politics."
📚Out August 18th on
@AmistadBooks
🔗Link to pre-order ->
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Thank you
@nprbooks
&
@NPR
for including
@BlackBottomSts
on your favorites of 2020 ✨🤎
@HarperCollins
@AmistadBooks
NPR’s Book Concierge is back with the largest batch of recommendations we’ve ever compiled – here are 380+ of our favorite 2020 titles. (And stick around to browse nearly 2,500 books from the last eight years.)
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Black Bottom Saints in
@oprahmagazine
best books of August ✨
@BlackBottomSts
.
@oprahmagazine
rounds up the best books of August, including Black Bottom Saints by
@MsAliceRandall
and Wandering in Strange Lands by
@MorganJerkins
:
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August 18th! Will you be joining our virtual book launch at
@Fisk1866
for
@BlackBottomSts
?
Link to the event in bio ✨
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Respect for Simone Biles. By standing up for herself she flys higher, spins faster, soars stronger than she did earning her gold medals. Autonomy, self-respect, integrity, and sense of what is most important brilliantly on display. This performance by Biles will save lives. Brava
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Thrilled to be in this issue edited by
@blkfootwhtfoot
& celebrating Lavern Baker one of our
@BlackBottomSts
✨ & Sister Rosetta was well loved and inspired many of the other Black Bottom Satins✨
We’re so excited to unveil the cover of our forthcoming Greatest Hits Music Issue that for a limited time, we’re offering free domestic shipping when you pre-order! Check it out at the link:
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Read an excerpt from Black Bottom Saints in the
@oxfordamerican
Music Issue ✨ about LaVern Baker 🤎
@BlackBottomSts
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For
@AmericanaFest
#ThrivingRoots
conference, I'll be speaking with the great Angela Davis,
@rosannecash
and more. Check out the Thriving Roots schedule for more details. Sept. 16-18
#AngelaDavis
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LaVern Baker 🤎✨🔔
@BlackBottomSts
"LaVern Baker, patron saint of: globe-trotters, the robbed, the resurrected, and seekers of resurrection." An excerpt from the novel Black Bottom Saints:
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Looking forward to this session with
@TheBonnieRaitt
#RyCooder
#AngelaDavis
and
@rosannecash
for
@AmericanaFest
#ThrivingRoots
conference
fr BRHQ - Bonnie is excited to participate in
#ThrivingRoots
: A Virtual Community Music Conference on Sept. 16-18! Rosanne Cash invited her to join a session called Love and Vigilance (also featuring Ry Cooder, Angela Davis and Alice Randall) that you won’t want to miss. (1/3)
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Join me this Saturday from 2-3pm EDT for my virtual book talk with the 2020 South Florida Book Festival! Live stream will be on my Facebook page @ Alice Randall Author. See you there!
#soflobookfest
#AARLCC
#BCL
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This! Educating the next generation! Telling our stories in old and new ways. Thrilled to add comic book author to my list of joyful work but it is the art in this book that is fantabulous!
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New episode out on the Black Bottom Saints podcast about Night Train Lane, NFL hall of famer, widower to Dinah Washington, and portrait of strength as well as focusing on the ones who lift you up.
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Thank you
@bustle
✨✨✨
@BlackBottomSts
🤎📚🔔
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Four days until release✨🕰️
Thank you
@ParnassusBooks1
cc-
@BlackBottomSts
,
@AmistadBooks
,
@HarperCollins
"There is a particular, public queer Black world where I have spent a good bit of time, a world largely created by the peerless sun-kissed female impersonator Valda Gray."
Today on Musing:
Read an excerpt from BLACK BOTTOM SAINTS by
@MsAliceRandall
!
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What time is it? Time to do better! Shame! Shame! Shame! Too many dead from racist, sexist, and classist violence. Death and trauma are real. I stand with my Asian-American and Asian co-habitants of this land. Time to do better!
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Love the cake toast! See you tonight! ✨
Today at 6 pm ET/3 pm PT mix a cocktail for
@MsAliceRandall
's launch of "Black Bottom Saints." PW starred review: "Randall returns to adult fiction w/ a sprawling genre-bending chronicle of real-life Detroit theater director “Ziggy” Johnson (1913-1968).
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Listen hear! Song Of The Day: Rhiannon Giddens "The Ballad Of Sally Anne" ! Thanks
@LouPubMedia
!
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See which Saint you need! From my book📚BLACK BOTTOM SAINTS, get your copy August 18th or pre-order from the link in my bio!
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Thanks!
@BuzzFeedBooks
and
@AriannaRebolini
for including
@BlackBottomSts
in your virtual book event round up!
Link to
@sourcebksellers
event (Dec. 6th) in bio✨
"Here Are Some Great Virtual Book Events Happening This Week: Nov. 30–Dec.6"
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✨✨✨
#Loveisthestrut
.
@AmericanaFest
's Thriving Roots offered a slew of insightful panel discussions.
@brittneymckenna
has notes on five standouts, including
@rosannecash
's talk with
@MsAliceRandall
, Angela Davis and more.
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Here is the event with
@sourcebksellers
on Sept. 3rd at 6pm EST
@BlackBottomSts
Check out "Black Bottom Saints with Alice Randall"
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So thrilled to be chosen for the Wall Street Journal Book Club! ✨🤎✨
@BlackBottomSts
@HarperCollins
@AmistadBooks
@WSJ
"Relax With a New E-Book Each Month With the WSJ+ Book Club" via
@WSJPlus
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Follow
@blackbottomsaints
on Instagram for great content on my newest book, Black Bottom Saints! Out for pre-order now!
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Sound on to hear a clip from ‘Black Bottom Saints: A Reader’s Companion’ where Alice talks about the gravitational pull of Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, heavyweight champion of the world & beloved Black Bottom fixture 🤎
Link in bio ✨or find wherever you listen to podcasts
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We were thrilled to have
@oxfordamerican
editor Danielle Jackson on the
@BlackBottomSts
podcast to discuss the Mills Brothers✨
Find wherever you listen to podcasts
“It’s hard for young people coming up now to understand what a phenomenon the Mills Brothers were.”
—Listen to the latest episode of
@MsAliceRandall
’s podcast “Black Bottom Saints” ft. OA editor Danielle A. Jackson.
Photo: Billboard/Wikimedia Commons
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Please join us in wishing Alice a very JOYOUS birthday!
She is our Patron Saint of friendship, love, and being seen as we are 👑💘🎂
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New special podcast episode where Alice talks
@BlackBottomSts
Nancy Elizabeth Johnson & then welcomes her daughter
@caroranwill
for an intimate conversation - all things creative, mothering, & cocktails✨
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Thrilled to have brilliant actor
@CourtneyBVance
join Alice to discuss Lloyd George Richards' profound legacy for the
#BlackBottomSaints
podcast.
As Dean of the Yale School of Drama, Richards’ was his teacher & mentor.
🔗 here:
Or on all podcast platforms
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January 2021 for me and many will all be about reset and revive. One way to reset and revive and move through the year is by celebrating the Black Bottom Saints birthdays, as curated by Noah Ford, Vanderbilt student, who hails from the Detroit area.
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President Trump has betrayed the nation. I urge the Vice President and the cabinet to take immediate action to remove the person who incited an insurrection against the nation he was elected to serve from office. He is endangering our most treasured institutions and our lives.
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Fall Guide 2020: The
@SoFestofBooks
goes virtual this year with Kiley Reid, Julia Alvarez, Erik Larson and many more. Here's our guide to the most notable of the notable.
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Live now! Watch our event (link below) with the
@rockhall
@NwakaOnwusa
@rosannecash
@outsidechild13
@MissMargoPrice
&
@SIEDAHGARRETT
And pick up your copy of
@BlackBottomSts
at
@ParnassusBooks1
#BlackMusicMonth
#Blackmusichistorymonth
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Ok everyone! Countdown to the book launch event!
Starts at 5pm Central today🕰️
Here is the link to the event->
Hosted by
@Fisk1866
and
@reghud
See you all there!
#BlackBottomSaints
✨
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Thank you
@shereadsdotcom
for picking
@BlackBottomSts
as one of the best historical fiction books of 2020 ✨🤎
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So many lies, so much delusion, unprecedented hypocrisy, in a single speech, that panders to fear. Trump the nadir of the American presidency.
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Tonight @ 5pm CST✨Virtual Holiday Happy Hour
@sourcebksellers
. Get a taste of Christmas Ziggy style featuring the Black Bottom Saints of winter, recipes for holiday cocktails, & a special guest w/ a big announcement. Celebrate the Black Bottom truth-- Joy is radical!
🔗in bio
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Will the Black Bottoms Saints march into the PBS News Hour tonight? Tune in to see! ✨🥁🤎🔔
@NewsHour
@BlackBottomSts
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One week until the release of
#BlackBottomSaints
!
Out August 18th on
@AmistadBooks
/
@HarperCollins
Link in my bio to the virtual book launch event 📚
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✨🎙️📻
"Black Bottom Saints is a gorgeous swirl of fiction, history and motor oil." —
@npr
Join us for a virtual Arts & Letters Live event with author
@MsAliceRandall
on 8/31:
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@OfficialALT
Yes! Your work was an inspiration for The Wind Done Gone. You center Black aesthetics and celebrate Black beauty in profound political ways.
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I’m supporting Food Revolution Day because I believe food education & cooking skills can help save lives
#FRD2013
http://t.co/NHgPDlvWGB
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Thank you
@BuzzFeed
for including
@BlackBottomSts
in your virtual book event lineup!
"Here Are Some Great Virtual Book Events Happening Aug. 31–Sept. 6" via
@AriannaRebolini
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In celebration of
#BlackHistoryMonth
and the theme of
#BlackHealthandWellness
Alice chats with
@JamesEKHildreth
on the newest episode of the Black Bottom Saints podcast.
⬇️
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January 2021 all about reset and revive. Kicking that off by jogging and dancing my way through a three day movie marathon that celebrates Black joy. First movie, Juanita, staring Alfre Woodard about a mother who runs away from her adult children to find love in Montana!
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March 6th! Join 'Conversations with Go On Girl! Book Club'
Link to register in bio!
#WomensHistoryMonth2021
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✨You can now pre-order the
@oxfordamerican
southern music issue w/ our piece about
@BlackBottomSts
's LaVern Baker and much more from
@blkfootwhtfoot
@rosannecash
✨
Link to pre-order in bio 🔗
We’re so excited to unveil the cover of our forthcoming Greatest Hits Music Issue that for a limited time, we’re offering free domestic shipping when you pre-order! Check it out at the link:
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Catch up on the new episodes on the
@BlackBottomSts
podcast✨
Find wherever you listen to podcasts!
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