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Longreads, founded in 2009, is dedicated to helping people find and share the best storytelling in the world. The site features and produces in-depth investigative pieces, profiles, interviews, commentary, book reviews, audio stories and personal essays.

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"Country Music … Was Anything BUT Pure": An Interview with Bill Malone and Tracey Laird

Retrospective and Interview by Will Hermes, Longreads, 4 June 2018

The co-authors of Country Music USA – a revised edition of the genre's definitive history – talk about the music's African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, ...

Johnny Rotten, My Mom and Me

Memoir by Kimberly Mack, Longreads, February 2019

Kimberly Mack recalls the ways in which rock music bonded her with her African American mom, and how those fierce sounds helped them cope with ...

Cypress Hill, Tricky, Barry White: It's Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer

Memoir by Michael A. Gonzales, Longreads, June 2019

Hip-hop was a different kind of music that needed a different kind of writer to cover it. This is how Michael A. Gonzales came of ...

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