Ask Greg Anything: A New, Maybe One-and-Done, Feature...

With a nod to Greil Marcus, a chance to put me on the hot seat or just stroll with me down memory lane. Plus: a new cut from Wilco.

Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books and now writer/director of award-winning films. He was the longtime executive editor of the legendary Crawdaddy. His newsletter remains free when you subscribe. His film “Atomic Cover-up” became free via Kanopy this month and the current “Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried" remains free on the PBS site. Both have companion books.

A slow week, so why not try this. Reader interest and support for this newsletter, far as I can judge (and thank you to those who have pledged money if this ever goes “pay”), remains strong, but engagement with your humble scribe has never been strong, perhaps because I have not gone out of my way to request or demand it.

So let’s try this.

Greil Marcus hosts a popular regular feature on his Substack called “Ask Greil.” Now, it’s true, he may have far more, and far more passionate/cranky, fans so I can’t expect the level of response he provokes. Also, I can’t count on drawing countless Dock Boggs fans. (I’ve read most of Greil’s books but never met him in person, but I did edit his regular column for the short-lived NYC magazine Politicks, edited by Thomas B. Morgan, where I worked, and we corresponded a bit in the 1980s.) But now let’s see what, if anything, happens here.

Simply: post a question in the Comments, or to my email if you have it. I’ll pick a few to answer (assuming there are a few). All subjects, in theory, allowed, from music and movies to politics and “culture.” Here’s the Comments tab, if that helps. Answers here in a newsletter post soon…Fire away!

Today’s bonus, one haunting new music track from Wilco. I have to admit, I checked it out originally because I wondered if “Ten Dead” referred to the unionists murdered in the Memorial Day Massacre in Chicago in 1937—subject of my latest PBS film and book. All I can say is, I don’t think so, but the lyrics do apply….