Will Groff
Hello! I'm a writer based in Queens.
I write about country music but also culture, etc.
I'm from New Mexico and did a Fulbright in Mexico City. AMA
Work
- How American Nightlife Went Honky-Tonk (The Wall Street Journal)
- ‘Try That in a Small Town' One Year Later: Searching for Truth at a Jason Aldean Concert (Rolling Stone)
- Queer Country Rewrites the Narrative of a Complicated Genre (Pitchfork)
- Country Music Has Always Been Queer... Seriously (LGBTQ Nation)
- Julio Torres’ I Want To Be A Vase Is Delightfully Strange & Oddly Touching (Romper)
- The Best Country Songs of 2022 (Paper Magazine)
- Jake Owen Started Bro Country. His New Album Is Anything But (Good Country/The Bluegrass Situation)
- Ashley Monroe's Pitchfork Quilt: Tennessee Lightning (Good Country/The Bluegrass Situation)
- Martina McBride's Empowered Love Songs (Good Country/The Bluegrass Situation)
- The Black Opry's Road to Newport Folk Festival (No Depression)
- Greensky Bluegrass Brings Listeners Along for Timely 'Stress Dreams' (No Depression)
- How Tennessee's Drag Ban Is Already Impacting Country Music (The Boot)
- 'Love Rising': Country and Americana Stars Shine at LGBTQ Benefit Concert (The Boot)
- The Future of Country Music Is on TikTok (The Boot)
- Remembering Charley Pride and His Landmark 1969 Live Album (The Boot)
- The Best Performances at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival (The Boot)
- Interview: Hailey Whitters Looks Back to Move Forward on 'Raised' (The Boot)
- Interview: Michaela Anne Shifts Her Perspective with 'Oh to Be That Free' (The Boot)
- 'Walkin' After Midnight': The Story Behind Patsy Cline's Bluesy Game-Changer (Wide Open Country)
- The Running Kind: Reconsidering Tradition Through Merle Haggard (Holler)
- In Conversation: Sarah Shook and the Disarmers (Holler)
- Paul Cauthen: Country as Fuck (Holler)
- Ten Year Town: Brooke Eden (Holler)
- In Conversation: Leyla McCalla (Holler)
- Ten Year Town: Jo Dee Messina (Holler)
- Allison Russell Is Building a More Inclusive, Expansive Americana (Holler)