John Hawbaker lives and writes in Chattanooga, Tenn. His essays have appeared in The Morning News, Bitter Southerner and Fathom, and he co-writes Tributaries, a newsletter about heart and craft in great writing.
The Curator's monthly series of editor playlists. This month: a playlist by John Hawbaker.
[Listen to our April 2021 playlist on Spotify.] This was going to be a high-concept playlist. I’d been thinking about it for weeks, plotting out a six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon approach where every song connected to the next through a series of covers, co-writers and collaborators. I tried and I couldn’t stick the landing, so here is simply a […]
Ten Live Performances I Loved in the 2010s
10 for 2020
“Music is a sacrament.” —Bono The above sentiment may be theologically suspect, but the spirit rings true for me. Indefinable, incredible things can happen in the air shared by a live band and a listener, moving the hearers’ hips and hearts alike. We may be leaving a decade behind, but I’ll be carrying the memories […]
Defiance & Melancholy: Talking with The Lone Bellow's Zach Williams about "Time’s Always Leaving”
"Trying to find that wonder in it all. It gets harder and harder as you get older.”
I’m not alone in this, but I feel like there’s never enough time — to get everything done, to read the stack of books at my bedside, to enjoy the company of my wife and children. But is time merely a construct, or is it somehow a character in my life, perhaps even with its […]
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