Since North Carolina is the most botanically diverse state in the nation, it should come as no surprise that popping up alongside those camellias, honeysuckles and loblolly pines are fiddlers, cloggers, banjo players and countless other exponents of the state’s rich musical heritage who burst into bloom when the weather gets warm. From the mountains […]
David Potorti
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A few old memories
“I haven’t done one since the ’60s–I thought they had gone out of style,” Hazel Dickens laughs. “But I guess they’re like bell bottoms–if you hold on to them long enough, they come back.” “Keep your old clothes,” adds Alice Gerrard. “That’s the moral of that story.” The subject is house concerts, and the fact […]
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Spellbound
Like a lot of people, I first heard Screamin’ Jay Hawkins in a Jim Jarmusch movie, Stranger Than Paradise, his “Put A Spell on You” serving as an eerie punctuation to the equally offbeat events of the film. I bought a few of his albums and became a fan. Ten years ago, living in Los […]