The artist and musician, now 75, represents a devotion to the act of creation. His new LP, “Tonky,” which incorporates jazz, blues, hip-hop and electronic music, is due this month.
Lonnie Holley Never Plays a Song Twice. (Even His Own.)
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Eco-Radical, Singer, Criminal, Cult Leader: Inside Carbon Nation
Eligio Bishop declared himself a God to a group of dedicated followers he led through Central America, Mexico, and the U.S., before landing in the Atlanta area. Now he’s serving life in prison.
Jesse Welles, a Folk Musician Who ‘Sings the News,’ Is Turning the Page
A ‘Mystic Time Traveler’ Perserveres
At 90, the Ghanaian Highlife Pioneer Ebo Taylor Finds a New Voice
Devil With a Cause
How Kid Rock Went from America’s Favorite Hard-Partying Rock Star to a MAGA Mouthpiece
Fortunate Son
Fergie Chambers is heir to one of America’s richest families–and determined to see the U.S. fall
Brittany Howard Taps Into the Ancestors and Finds a New Groove
Little Turtle’s War
The shooting death of a protestor at the hands of police feels like both an inevitable outcome of this long battle over Atlanta’s South River Forest and a completely preventable tragedy.
The Search for Guns N’ Roses’ Lost Masterpiece
How a group of ride-or-die GN’R fans leaked 19 CDs of outtakes from one of the most notorious albums in history–with painful consequences for one of them.
The Forest for the Trees
A band of activists has turned a fight over a forest in southeast Atlanta into a wide-ranging, no-holds-barred battle over the climate crisis, environmental justice, white supremacy, the future of policing, and the very nature of protest movements. But will it work?
David Peisner 