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Jake Blount

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Pre-industrial music for post-industrial people. 💿 @Folkways (𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐭 out now), 🎻 @New_Dangerfield , 📚 @BrownUniversity . He/They.

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Jake Blount

20 days

Please welcome: 𝕤𝕪𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕥, out now on @Folkways . "Haunting, prowling futurist folk music." - @Bandcamp "Powerful, pulsing examples of the old tangling brilliantly with the new." - @guardian Listen on the platform of your choosing:

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Jake Blount

6 months

I hope everyone on here talking about "occupying private property is wrong and the police response is warranted" realizes that they're publicly admitting they would have opposed the Civil Rights Movement

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Non-musicians: touring sounds hard, but I bet you get to see all kinds of amazing places!! Musicians: in the KFC line in Yeehaw Junction, Florida

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6 months

@susanbordson @davidalove oh man, someone only knows about selma and the march on washington i see

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6 months

None of y'all get to take quotes out of context on MLK Day again. You have forfeited your right

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Jake Blount

3 years

IS THERE A SISTER ROSETTA THARPE CAMEO IN THE NEW @lizzo VIDEO??????

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Jake Blount

2 months

@queenie4rmnola Black soldiers signed up by the thousands to help the US Government displace and exterminate Western tribes, when that same government enslaved them up until three years prior. We may not have been the masterminds, but we absolutely participated.

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@queenie4rmnola Setting aside that not all of them did: invading their homes, murdering them by the thousands and stealing their lands as part of an imperial invasion force is still colonialism lol

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Jake Blount

6 months

@Gockomo @AkilahObviously How are university administration buildings unrelated to the cause of university divestment?

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Jake Blount

6 months

Apparently many people out there need to do some reading! Start here:

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Sit-in movement | History & Impact on Civil Rights Movement | Britannica

The sit-in movement was a nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights era that began in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960. The sit-in, an act of civil disobedience, aroused sympathy among modera...

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2 years

@handsomelizzie He… was not wrong

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6 months

@El_Daverino @abeconnally I'm not really sure why that would have been different, but if it makes you feel better the students at my institution began their sit-ins by walking in normally during the day.

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@Komaniecki_R I also think part of it is that liberals spend every election cycle trying to bully leftists into compliance through sheer condescension, whereas conservatives don’t expect or want our support and therefore do not bother us

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2 years

@tressiemcphd Planes are just airborne Waffle Houses these dates

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2 years

Black musician: *sings any kind of harmony* Americana journalists: “ARMED WITH SOARING GOSPEL HARMONIES,

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2 years

America and the American music industry reward racism. He's not famous and popular despite what he did, but rather because of it.

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. @MorganWallen breaks the record for most simultaneous entries for any artist in Hot 100 history, surpassing @Drake (36).

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2 years

Audience should not participate in music-making at a show unless specifically asked to. Especially non-musicians. Don’t clap along. Don’t stomp along. I didn’t come here to hear you pretend you know where the beat is

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Jake Blount

8 months

"Paramore will not accept any acknowledgement or honor from the TN House until Allison Russell is given the same recognition." FUCK yes @paramore

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. @paramore reject Tennessee honor denied to Allison Russell ( @outsidechild13 ): "The blatant racism of our state leadership is embarrassing"

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Jake Blount

1 year

I have nothing bad to say about Luke Combs, and have heard only wonderful things about him. Because of systemic biases at play that are not his fault, I worry that we’re watching a legacy being overwritten in real-time. I’m thinking of Big Mama Thornton as I type this.

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Luke Combs’ cover of “Fast Car” surpasses the Hot 100 peak of the original Tracy Chapman version.

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Jake Blount

3 years

About to go talk about protecting queer and trans kids at a bluegrass festival in a Florida casino, wish me luck. And by that I mean pray I don’t get hate crimed

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6 months

@Gockomo @AkilahObviously You don't see how divesting from companies that manufacture weapons and sell them to the IDF would help the situation in Palestine?

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3 years

Hi from the International Bluegrass Music Association, where a 17 year old fiddler just explained the need for anti-racist fiddle tunes during the introduction for his original tune: "Goodbye, Columbus." The kids aren't just alright, they're better than us.

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Jake Blount

10 months

@IBJIYONGI My reaction: you can convince me to do things out of fear up to a certain point, but I can't respect myself if I let someone scare me into complicity with genocide. Could I look a Palestinian in the face right now and explain that I voted for him to keep my own life comfortable?

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Jake Blount

10 months

@MaxMaaxMaaax it's true but i doubt he cares! probably had made up his mind to leave anyway and decided to go out with a bang

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Jake Blount

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@InternetDrix @comradesanchez I do not think Jill stein is the mainstream youth candidate. Certainly she has some, but not most

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Jake Blount

3 years

It’s a moment of low morale for Black, brown and anti-racist Nashville peeps. Hate to see great artists openly contemplating throwing in the towel because one single ass-backwards southern town refuses to cooperate. Here’s a reminder: you don’t have to be in Nashville.

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Jake Blount

4 months

You can play a fiddle tune with a five-note melody and zero chord changes, and some boomer will be like “see, this has so much more depth than pop music.” No it does not

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Jake Blount

1 year

I’m playing the same festival as @lizzo this week and I’m just saying, my queer Afrofuturist folk music could use a ripping flute solo or two. I’m just putting that out into the universe

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Jake Blount

1 year

@reluctantlyjoe The fact that people react to a mass casualty event by reasserting the importance of “pleasures” they could easily do without is why we are in this situation. Turns out taking care of others and existing in community means not getting everything you want 24/7

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Jake Blount

1 year

Does not engage haters, drops Opry ticket link. King shit

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Jake Blount

10 months

@tparsi really looking forward to round two of "Democrats insist on a candidate who consistently loses in the polls, then blame everyone but themselves when the election goes the way it was obviously going to"

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Jake Blount

1 year

I would hate for people to not remember Tracy Chapman, who was probably the first LGBTQ voice I ever heard - certainly the first Black LGBTQ folk musician I ever heard, and I wouldn’t be where I am without her. But maybe I’m just being protective because she’s important to me.

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Jake Blount

2 years

Heartbroken to hear of the passing of Patrick Haggerty, creator of Lavender Country, the first queer country album. Patrick was an elder and a musical hero to my generation of queer country artists - and special to me because he was a relative of my family through marriage.

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Jake Blount

1 year

New Black stringband just dropped 🔥

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Jake Blount

2 years

This is not a joke. I am in a KFC in Yeehaw Junction, Florida.

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Jake Blount

1 year

I am in train station, about to head down to NYC for my first performance at Carnegie Hall. 😁

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Jake Blount

3 years

It's here, y'all!!

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Jake Blount ( @forked_queer ) on the insidiousness of "Afro-Americana":

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Jake Blount

1 year

I have no strong opinions about Zimmer or Robert’s take here, but am perplexed by the replies expressing shock that various rock and folk musicians can’t read notation. Do classical musicians still not understand that their notation frequently doesn’t work for other styles?

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1 year

Wait. For real?

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Jake Blount

2 years

I didn't imply shit, I said that with my whole chest. If you're okay with a guy yelling the n-word in the street and giving nothing but false promises and platitudes by way of apology (he never made the donations he promised), you have some unpacking to do.

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@bettymbeauchamp @forked_queer @data_jada So you’re actually going to be dumb enough to imply that all Morgan Wallen fans are racist? Wow…that’s insane!

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Jake Blount

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I have been a professional musician for years. I’m doing just fine. I learned to read sheet music in my first college theory class, and I have to relearn every two to three years because that’s how rarely I use it. I don’t know anybody outside classical who uses it regularly.

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Jake Blount

3 years

Hey y'all I made a TikTok about Lady Antebellum sabotaging Black women's careers, share if you like and go buy/stream music from @TheRealLadyA and @folkrockdiva

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Jake Blount

1 year

About eight years ago, I learned this fiddle tune - “Dangerfield” - from Eddie Bond. He said it was named for one of the raiders who fought with John Brown. Today I played at John Brown’s burial site. Turns out Dangerfield Newby is buried there, too - and he was Black!

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1 year

This is going to destroy the state of Rhode Island

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WHAT

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Jake Blount

10 months

@DanielYRubin @christapeterso I think the point is that most ethnic minorities in the world do not have ethnostates and that the brutality of the ethnostates that DO exist should be proof of why they’re not good to have around.

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Jake Blount

8 months

Banjo auntie came to slay

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Rhiannon Giddens

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You didn’t know you needed a #banjoauntie . Now you know.

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Jake Blount

3 years

Black History Month, and today I visited a very important place! Sister Rosetta Tharpe and her mother, Katie Bell Nubin, played their first shows in this building. Mahalia Jackson came here to hear the Pentecostals sing. Decades later, this building hosted Emmett Till’s funeral.

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Jake Blount

2 years

Janis Ian asked me to sing At Seventeen for her at the International Folk Music Awards tonight. I did an ok job because I was a hair’s breadth from tears the whole time but she stood up and clapped for me and really that’s what matters.

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Jake Blount

1 year

Less than ten minutes until my first performance at Carnegie Hall. Wish me luck y’all!!!

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Jake Blount

6 months

@midcharlemagne @El_Daverino @abeconnally Damaging inanimate objects isn’t “violent” in my opinion, and breaking one law doesn’t make someone an anarchist

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Jake Blount

2 months

@Komaniecki_R Libs tend to pander to conservatives and appease them in the hope of winning them over, while constantly flipping the bird to the left and expecting their support regardless.

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Jake Blount

10 months

People need to learn how to like things without pretending those things are genius or revolutionary or whatever

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Jake Blount

1 year

The memes about the submarine were due to 1) the novelty of the predicament, 2) the poor judgment required to end up in said predicament, and 3) the passengers belonging to a social class renowned for thinking they’re more intelligent and worthy than every other human alive

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Jake Blount

3 months

It’s like heaven. I am prohibited by law from letting anyone bother me on the phone, no one can see or hear me, and I have a world of music and audiobooks at my fingertips. I understand driving is horrible for the earth but it may be the single best thing about modern life

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I drove alone for 8h yesterday. It’s like torture. You can’t talk to anyone, browse Wikipedia, read your texts. Just constant low-grade activity in silence to avoid certain death.

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Jake Blount

2 years

ANNOUNCING: “The New Faith,” coming September 23 on the @Folkways African American Legacy Series. @allsongs just premiered the first single, “Didn’t It Rain.” Listen to the single and pre-order the record here:

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Jake Blount

1 year

Not @RhiannonGiddens giving me a shout-out in Variety 😭

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Rhiannon Giddens on the Unknown Black Legacy of the Banjo, and Why a New Generation Is Reclaiming It

Rhiannon Giddens talks about her love for the banjo and the largely Black history of the instrument, as explored in a new 10-part Wondrium series.

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Jake Blount

1 year

@tressiemcphd that one time you WHAT

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Jake Blount

1 year

@theferocity Oh, there’s so much more to learn.

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Blackout: How Argentina ‘Eliminated’ Africans From Its History And Conscience

Black Africans, who were a large portion of Argentina's population in the early 19th century, seem to have vanished. Or have they?

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Jake Blount

3 years

As a man, other man frequently reveal to me how little they respect the women in their life. They expect me to sympathize because we are both men. To these men I say: I am not on your team, I dislike you, and I hope she dumps you.

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Jake Blount

10 months

In 2024, I would like for music academics to stop describing the process of making sound using the word “sounding.” It does not mean what you think it means

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Jake Blount

2 years

With the help of many insightful friends and mentors, and thanks to the efforts of Pop Pop, Gran Gran and my parents, I have been admitted to Brown University as a PhD student in Musicology & Ethnomusicology! I am so grateful, and truly cannot wait to get to work.

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Jake Blount

2 years

Me: Adeem is going to go down as one of the best lyricists of our generation Adeem:

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Jake Blount

6 months

It’s finals for me, y’all, and so I am muting this and focusing on my work. 🇵🇸

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Jake Blount

3 years

@NellSco You didn't say "Kentucky legislators," you said Kentucky. You were addressing everybody who lives in Kentucky, including the loved ones of the people that died. If that wasn't meant to do, by all means apologize - but nobody is twisting anything. We can only go on what you wrote.

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Jake Blount

1 year

I hope the suffering was immeasurable and that hell is real

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Jake Blount

2 years

My career would literally not be possible without @tajmahalblues and @RhiannonGiddens and sharing a bill with them was the honor of a lifetime. @Newportfolkfest gets more incredible every year.

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Jake Blount

2 years

I. Am on a bill. With KENDRICK LAMAR

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Jake Blount

2 years

YEAH.

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Jake Blount

3 months

It is a bummer that our country draws the line at “lackluster debate performance” and not “materially backing a genocide”

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Jake Blount

11 months

A lot of y’all don’t seem to get how much damage it does when people presume the accuracy and effectiveness of written notation. It does not include the right types of information for all styles. It warps, mangles and misrepresents like no other medium I have encountered.

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Jake Blount

2 years

I stopped in to give Pop Pop some big news a bit ago. This man is 97! When he was young, he wanted to be a dentist. But a falling tree crushed his father’s leg during his first year of college, and someone had to help out on the farm. Pop Pop became a farmer.

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8 months

Just got old enough to start seeing the difference between people in a bad spot who need friends, and self-destructive people who want witnesses

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Jake Blount

2 years

@kaiakater If a sound guy is telling the musician to play differently he has fatally misunderstood his role in making the show happen lol

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Jake Blount

4 months

Irish tunes are so wild. Every note is three smaller notes in a trench coat

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Jake Blount

2 years

Deeply amused to have discovered an anti-Soviet Space Race spiritual in Courlander’s Negro Folk Music, USA tonight lol

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Jake Blount

3 years

I just got to the venue. A Black lady in a 9:30 Club sweatshirt said “I’m the owner” and let me in. I can tell this is going to be a good night.

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Jake Blount

3 years

I spent SO LONG thinking that I would never have queer fans bc of the music I make. And every time a person with a rainbow flag in their bio or name follows me I still get so excited 😭

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Jake Blount

3 months

Ok deeply confusing moment: just walked past a lady who was standing on the left side of the escalator. A faux pas, but no biggie as the other half was free. I walked past her and she went “oh, excuse you! Rude!!” Are we not supposed to walk on escalators now??

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Jake Blount

1 year

. @AmericanaFest as a queer artist who has showcased in the past and hopes to do so again, I’d appreciate a statement. I need to know if and how you intend to stand with my community. I know you may not be able to speak on everything publicly, but the silence doesn’t feel good.

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Jake Blount

1 year

These situations are not a 1:1 comparison, because Tracy is getting paid and is likely happy with those checks! But as someone who dedicates his life to learning from recorded ancestors and telling their stories, it upsets me just as much that Thornton’s legacy has been obscured.

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1 year

Tried to talk about current events at my show last night and wound up spinning out and saying “God would be disgusted with us” to a room of mostly Republican AARP members, so that’s how it’s going over here

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Jake Blount

2 years

@cancelcnclcltr @lizzo I think she’s a better judge than you of whether her own lyric is too important to change. Musicians change lyrics all the time, often for smaller reasons than this. Let her do what she wants.

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3 years

I’m so glad to be a queer person of color bc I honestly don’t know a single person who listens to Joe Rogan

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Jake Blount

3 years

Man at airport, after seeing me with case: is there such a thing as a sad banjo song? Me: literally all of them if you listen to the words, bud

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Jake Blount

3 years

Sold out shows are great. Encores are great. Sold out shows with three encores where someone tips you $500? Got one under my belt as of tonight, and yeah it was good

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Jake Blount

1 year

I might have to put this out… who wants to hear me cover Kermit the Frog

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Jake Blount

1 year

Currently recording Rainbow Connection for my college bestie’s wedding and have to say - we do not talk enough about how cool this song is???

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5 months

@_love_holly_ Might not be a permission issue, she might just be prioritizing her personal life over work. Which is fair!

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Jake Blount

1 year

Y’all should go follow the hottest new Black string band: @new_dangerfield

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Jake Blount

2 years

Bestie, I have terrible news

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Rhiannon Giddens

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2 years

@forked_queer What the hell is wikifeet

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Jake Blount

8 months

Having just broken up with a partner of four years, I think having my divorce reported on by journalists and commented on publicly by people who have never met me seems like a nightmare. But that’s just me!!!!

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Jake Blount

1 year

I love going to aggrieved luthiers. Bc you’ll walk in like “I think a seam might be open??” And they’re like “open? More like the fucking Grand Canyon. Ain’t a bit of glue on this thing. I should fucking kill you”

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Jake Blount

1 year

Pete Seeger got blackballed by the federal government and interrogated by Congress, and people really expect me to close my mouth because I might lose some gigs lol

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Jake Blount

1 year

If you don’t hear the true message behind a southern white man promising to murder ~urban people~ in an act of vigilante justice, you aren’t listening. Aldean’s new song is a lynching fantasy. The lyrics read like a manifesto by J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant.

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Jake Blount

4 years

How ignorant must one be to argue that holding a white artist accountable for yelling slurs is "cancel culture?" Billie Holiday was hunted for decades by feds and framed and arrested for possession ON HER DEATHBED for Strange Fruit. Sam Cooke DIED for A Change is Gonna Come. 1/2

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Jake Blount

3 years

🎶I am fo real🎶

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3 years

. @forked_queer isn’t a real human being

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Jake Blount

1 month

anyone who says the phrase "young ovulating women," other than a related medical or public health professional, should be put on a watchlist

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There are young ovulating women out there being forced to attend a macroeconomics class

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Jake Blount

8 months

Omfg

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Robert Randolph

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8 months

Slide banjo 🪕! @RhiannonGiddens @Beyonce Texas hold ‘em 16 carriages S #BEYONCEISCOUNTRY

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Jake Blount

3 years

We love to see institutions recognizing Black intellect, Black skill, Black talent, Black vision, Black excellence - and @RhiannonGiddens is all of that. Congratulations on another well-earned triumph.

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Jake Blount

1 year

Stellar passive-aggressive note left on my car by a homeowner telling me that I’m discourteous for parking in a legal space on a public street. I decided to reply in the local dialect

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Jake Blount

1 year

Hearing a lot of “industry plant” outrage from people who’ve spent the past several months singing the praises of an artist who was manufactured from thin air by her label, right as her father ~coincidentally~ purchased a $300,000 share. I don’t get it.

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Jake Blount

6 months

@kferrDC @susanbordson @davidalove Nobody broke in anywhere at Brown

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Jake Blount

20 days

Pro tip: if you’re gonna hire a Black band don’t decorate the stage with fucking cotton.

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