Drew Bratcher was born in Nashville. He is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and received his MFA from the University of Iowa. His writing has appeared in the Oxford American, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nowhere Magazine, Essay Daily, Garden & Gun, Image Journal, World War II Magazine, Military History Quarterly, Washingtonian, and others. Bub: Essays from Just North of Nashville (2022), a collection about growing up under the influence of country music and stories, is his first book. He lives outside Chicago.
Drew Bratcher
Articles
All the Honky-Tonk Babies Have Broken Hearts
Drew Bratcher considers the career of Hank Williams Jr. and the anxiety of his father’s influence.
Visions of Cash
Growing up with the man in black.
The Last Cowboy Song
Listening to Marty Robbins’s classic 1959 album “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs.”
The Father Never Goes Away: A Conversation with M. Randal O’Wain
M. Randal O’Wain discusses his new memoir and his working-class Southern roots.
Alabama’s Mortal Sounds
Revisiting the primal scene — an Alabama concert.
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