@marcuskdowling

Bio

Tennessean

My appearance on Bobby Bones' podcast

My 2021 Chet Flippo Award For Excellence In Country Music Journalism Acceptance Speech

DC Cowboy Boots

A Brief History of House Music

Country Music In The Age of Streaming

Black and queer artists and advocates are building their own grassroots networks in roots music

The City That Bombed Itself

This is damn sure not our grandparents' rhythm and blues

On Text Messaging, My Greatest Creative Inspiration

Black Excellence in the Age of Pandemic

What Doug Williams' historic Super Bowl victory meant to D.C.