Jackson Maxwell
@j_lmaxwell
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Associate Editor of @GuitarWorld and @GuitarPlayerNow. @futureusunion proud. Opinions are me own. He/him
Joined March 2013
I set out to write a story simply about how Lead Belly's magnetic musical talent got him out of a hellish, Jim Crow-era Texas prison. I learned a lot about the man – and how he was cheated, stereotyped, and misrepresented – along the way. My latest for GW
guitarworld.com
Huddie Ledbetter's magnetic musical talent got him an early release from a hellish Texas prison – yet his full impact on 20th century guitar playing is often overlooked
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Working for the longest-running and most prestigious guitar magazine in the world has been an incredible honor. 57 years is one hell of a run
guitarplayer.com
Guitar Player magazine's final issue goes onsale next week. Read editor Christopher Scapelliti’s final editorial about the print mag’s historic run and its online future
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“What did you say this song was called?” “‘Cut Your Hair’” “But Stephen, we’ve never heard this song before!” (Dramatic turn) “you boys just follow me”
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K*mala Harris asking me for money every time I click on “3 Hours of Backrooms Dark Ambient” or “Kentucky Route Zero Ambience”
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My professional career has peaked – I got to incorporate The Last Dance into my job. This is how an unsung guitar hero made the the Alan Parsons Project's Sirius (the Chicago Bulls' walk-on theme) so special
guitarworld.com
The late Ian Bairnson spent decades as a first-call session man, but his most famous turn came on the Alan Parsons Project tune Sirius
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I love Joe Buck and he’s the voice I associate with huge sporting events
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All jokes and jabs at Pitchfork’s expense aside, I’m not really exaggerating when I say that they are THE place that inspired me to do what I do now. Even as someone who’s worked in corporate music media for seven years, I’m at a total loss for words
News: In a note to staff, Condé Nast announces that Pitchfork is being moved under GQ.
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Diving deep into Bob Dylan’s discography is so frustrating because there’ll be an album that’s, like, good, and then you hear a random studio outtake of a song that didn’t make the album. It’ll be, like, “Carny’s Bet (Take 43)” and it’ll be the greatest song you’ve ever heard
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I’m sadly shut in with COVID this New Year’s Eve, but that did give me the time to close out 2023 by finishing this, one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. In every sense – sound design, plot, attention to detail, memorable characters and those visuals (!!!) – a masterpiece
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@futureusunion If you have ever thought about unionizing – whatever line of work you're in – do it. It changed my life immensely, in more ways than I can squeeze into a character count
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Super happy to share that the @futureusunion – of which I am a proud member – has ratified its second contract! We got protection from layoffs due to AI, increased minimum salaries, at least 2 weeks notice or 2 weeks of extra severance pay for layoffs...
wgaeast.org
NEW YORK, NY (DECEMBER 13, 2023) – Writers Guild of America East members at Future PLC, the multi-platform media company, have overwhelmingly ratified their second union contract with 98% approval...
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Friend’s having a karaoke party tonight – can’t wait to do my karaoke fave!!
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all these years and I still think, whenever I use the “>” symbol, “Allie the Alligator eats the bigger number”
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I don’t know the cause of this specific event, but the construction at Lorimer has made my daily commutes so horribly unsafe. parts of the platform that are necessary to access are so narrow that an average adult can barely pass through— I’ve been nearly swiped by the train
L train service is suspended in both directions between Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs and 8 Av. Emergency teams are responding to someone who was struck by a train near Lorimer St.
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In 1954, Pat Hare released a wild, distorted, proto-hard-rock missive titled I’m Gonna Murder My Baby. Nine years later, he did just that. That macabre story, however, obscures how radically ahead of its time his playing was. My latest
guitarworld.com
A remarkably gifted, but equally volcanic, guitarist who played with Howlin’ Wolf, James Cotton, Muddy Waters, and Bobby Bland, Hare made a seismic (and largely forgotten) impact on the development...
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he played more stuff from the Christian albums than from his golden, ‘63-‘66 era. True boss shit. 10/10.
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