He performs Thursday night at The Cave in Chapel Hill.
Corbie Hill
Bio: Corbie Hill lives on three wooded acres in Pittsboro, where he is a writer, musician, dad of two and community college English instructor. He is a regular contributor to INDY Week's music section.Twitter: http://twitter.com/afraidofthebear
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Have a Holly Jolly Christmas With a More Secular Soundtrack
Stay merry and bright with these great holiday records.
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Pittsboro Is Smaller Than Triangle Cities, Yet Its Handful of Trucks Thrive Without Rodeo Crowds
It’s the middle of a sweltering afternoon, and Tacos Michoacan is parked in its usual spot just north of Pittsboro’s humble downtown. Aromatic Roasters, the coffee truck with which Tacos Michoacan shares this unassuming lot, is closed for the day, and the communications company at the same address is as outwardly quiet as ever. Yet […]
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Chapel Hill Native Andrew Weathers Hops from Oakland to a Tiny Texas Town in Pursuit of New Musical Experiments
ANDREW WEATHERS WITH POLYORCHARD Tuesday, June 20, 8 p.m., donations The Carrack, Durham www.thecarrack.org Next door to the J Bar N Boot Shop in Littlefield, Texas, and behind two conjoined storefronts, a visual artist and a modern composer are hard at work. The couple’s new space in northwest Texas needs some work: they’ve already had […]
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With Songs, Stories, and Curiosity, David Holt Made a Life Out of North Carolina Folk
DAVID HOLT & JOSH GOFORTH Friday, April 21, 8 p.m., $20–$22 Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw www.hawriverballroom.com David Holt is bringing the family bones with him to Saxapahaw this weekend. More precisely, he’s bringing these bones back to Alamance County, where his ancestors settled in the early 1700s and opened textile mills. When his great-great grandfather, […]
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The Need for Mead
Old habits die hard, and mead is one of the oldest. There’s no clear consensus on where this most ancient of fermented beverages originated. The Chinese and Egyptians both drank it thousands of years ago. Becky Starr of Starrlight Mead in Pittsboro guesses that the first fermentation was probably an accident. Honey is 80 percent […]
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Cider House Rules
Before the craft beer movement, there was an attitude that “beer is beer,” a tautology expressing the watery similarity of the mass-produced domestic brews dominating the market. Craft brewing has effectively pulled beer from this gutter, as evidenced by the explosion of its industry. Hard cider still suffers, though: “Cider is cider,” the thought goes. […]
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Record Review: With A Series of Circles, Stray Owls Offer Accented Rock
Stray Owls Friday, March 3 9 p.m., $8 Local 506, Chapel Hill www.local506.com Dialect is a funny thing. You don’t hear your own accent, not usually, but you can certainly recognize it in others. What you’re hearing is absences, or what the other person isn’t saying. It’s a lot like that with rock bands. The […]
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With Blue Cactus, Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez Embrace the Gaudy Trappings and Heavyweight Emotion of Classic Country Music
With their duo, Blue Cactus, Mario Arnez and Steph Stewart have found a place of comfort in the pomp and fashion of mid-century country music.