With a rose and a candy bar, he became a teen heartthrob in the mid-’50s while still a freshman at UNC-Chapel Hill. Although “A Rose And A Baby Ruth” was the song that put him in the national spotlight in 1959, it didn’t define George Hamilton IV’s career, in tone or genre. The singer passed […]
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Live: Some great sets and necessary work at the revitalized Bull Durham Blues Festival
The spirit and the beat are alive at Hayti, transmitted from the stage down through the floorboards of the old church, the joists throbbing with the rhythms. The former St. Joseph’s AME house of worship, now the home of the Hayti Heritage Center, hosted the first night of the 2014 Bull Durham Festival, in conjunction […]
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To have a future, the Bull Durham Blues Festival reconnects with its past
Bull Durham Blues Festival Friday, Sept. 5–Saturday, Sept. 6, 6 p.m. $35–$50, Hayti Performance Hall & Durham Athletic Park 919-683-1709 hayti.org/music The history of the Bull Durham Blues Festival lives not in Durham, but in Cary, in the very crowded house of graphic artist Bruce Couch. If you’ve been to the event during its three […]
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Turchi’s Can’t Bury Your Past
Turchi April 24, 9 p.m., $7–$10 Local 506 April 25, 9 p.m., $6 Blue Note Grill Reed Turchi, the frontman of the Asheville trio that takes his last name, grew up in the shadows of the Great Smoky Mountains. Bluegrass and old-time seeped into his pores, you might think. But Turchi ain’t about that. Rather, […]
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The new Lard Have Mercy! exhibit at UNC celebrates 30 wild years of Southern Culture on the Skids
Lard Have Mercy! 30 Years of Southern Culture on the Skids Opening Friday, March 14, 6 p.m. Ending Friday, Aug. 29 Southern Folklife Collection at Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill Wilson Library Interior decorators, take note: If you need to make any room less stuffy, just ask Southern Culture on the Skids to move in. After […]
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Keepin’ It Country
The female Dale Watson: As country goes, that’s a pretty ringing endorsement, but it makes country singer Elizabeth Cook a bit nervous. For one, she’s not as militant about the state of country music as Watson, whose “Country My Ass” invites the listener to “get pissed and get mad” about what passes for country. “I […]
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Mitch Kashmar
Mitch Kashmar Loafers Harmonica Blues Dance Party II with Lil Ronnie and the Grand Dukes and Greg “Fingers” Taylor Loafers Beach Club, 3914 Atlantic Ave., Raleigh Saturday, Dec. 16, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Tickets: $15 The music oozed up from the bottomlands. The wind blew it from the big city by the lake. Some of it […]
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Geno Delafose
Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie Wednesday, Dec. 6, 9 p.m. Pre-show dance lesson: 8 p.m. Hideaway BBQ, Raleigh Tickets: $16 in advance, $18 day of show Here’s something you don’t expect to hear often from a Creole cowboy at 7 a.m., moments before he heads out to his day job tending cattle on his […]
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Taz Halloween scares up rock, jazz, country and folk
Taz Halloween Blue Bayou Club, Hillsborough with Robert Griffin, Stu Cole and Cecil Johnson Thursday, Nov. 30, 8:30 p.m. “My sister nicknamed me Halloween. It turns out it was a good nickname,” says Wendy Shadburn, better known in these parts as Taz Halloween. “I’m several people rolled into one, all of ’em very real on […]
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Webb Wilder
Webb Wilder Hideaway BBQ, Raleigh Friday, Dec. 1, 9:30 p.m. Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at the door Ever wonder why, when the flying saucers touch down, they always land in a rural area? What’s with the anal fixation? Do extraterrestrials really think that posterior probing is a suitable welcome? Webb Wilder, a private eye […]
