# This One's Called

Stories from 30+ years in the music industry. Running labels, managing artists, and once finding someone to hold up John Popper’s chair. New posts every couple of weeks, told straight and always ending like a song: “This One’s Called…”

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## [Game Face](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/game-face)

_2026-08-18 · Billy Maupin_

Letting Them See You Sweat

## [No One Gives Me Tapes Anymore](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/no-one-gives-me-tapes-anymore)

_2026-08-11 · Billy Maupin_

Midway Through Side Two

## [On Bill Evans In The Middle Of The Night](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/on-bill-evans-in-the-middle-of-the)

_2026-08-07 · Billy Maupin_

Trusting The Direct Deed

## [Bill Evans in the Middle of the Night](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/bill-evans-in-the-middle-of-the-night)

_2026-08-04 · Billy Maupin_

A Work Of Fiction

## [Handle With Care](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/handle-with-care)

_2026-07-28 · Billy Maupin_

On Writing In Public

## [Why Some Things Are Better As Memories](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/why-some-things-are-better-as-memories)

_2026-07-15 · Billy Maupin_

Andy Kaufman, Robyn Hitchcock, and Eugene Mirman

## [Where You’re Supposed to Be](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/where-youre-supposed-to-be)

_2026-07-07 · Billy Maupin_

Real life delivering something fiction would reject

## [C/O Grand Ole Opry](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/co-grand-ole-opry)

_2026-06-24 · Billy Maupin_

The 18-month push to break Mandolin Orange

## [On He’ll Die If You Don’t Get Him In Water](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/on-hell-die-if-you-dont-get-him-in)

_2026-06-19 · Billy Maupin_

Until 1990, my hometown had two newspapers: The Durham Herald, delivered in the morning and the Durham Sun, in the afternoon.

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## [He’ll Die If You Don’t Get Him In Water](https://thisonescalled.substack.com/p/hell-die-if-you-dont-get-him-in-water)

_2026-06-16 · Billy Maupin_

A Work Of Fiction