Denise Sullivan's Writings
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Essay
Oct.20.2011
Georgia was on my mind this week—in the news, in the news—not once, but twice. I lived there once upon a kudzu vine, in Atlanta, one block from the railroad tracks, spitting distance from Cabbagetown, the Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Ave. and the Carter Center, devoted to “advancing human rights and alleviating suffering.” I lived on a...
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Article
Aug.23.2011
Crawdaddy!
Not yet titled, the new project is what she calls part of a “song cycle,” inspired by a time in the early ‘90s when she and her husband, Crawdaddy!founder Paul Williams, were newly in love. As she recalls the good times, she’s noticed it’s had a way of shifting her into a higher gear, creatively. “Renata, my cellist, was saying it’s kind of like chamber folk...
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Aug.23.2011
Paste Magazine
As the opening statement on the Wailers’ 1973 album Burnin’, “Get Up Stand Up” would become not only a signature song for its writers, it would go on to endure as an international human rights anthem. The song has survived versions as diverse as mellow jazz to ear-splitting metal; it’s a standard by any measure, though the fact that it still needs to be...
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Article
Aug.08.2011
Crawdaddy!
“I would listen to ‘Equal Rights’, the song, and think about what that really meant, across the world. I realized he’s larger than life, he’s more than just my dad,” says McIntosh. “I was inspired to listen, to be proactive and learn more about who he really was.”
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Article
Jun.30.2011
Crawdaddy!
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About Denise
"Denise Sullivan represents the insider intellectual stamina of rock 'n' roll journalism without the pomp and pretense. She is the past and future of the form, rolled into one uncanny style...
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Causes Denise Sullivan Supports
Build the Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Meals on Wheels