Photo by Todd V. Wolfson“It still sounds like me, in the end.” —Kathleen Edwards, on her new LP “I’m moving to America,” Kathleen Edwards sings over and over in the chorus of “Empty Threat,” the lead track of her new album, Voyageur. Thing is, it wasn’t an empty threat: The Canadian singer-songwriter recently relocated to […]
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Joe Pug outgrows the solo stage
Joe Pug plays Local 506 with Strand of Oaks Monday, April 11, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10-$12. You’d have a tough time finding a harder-working artist on the club circuit these days than Chicago-via-Chapel Hill indie troubadour Joe Pug. When he plays at Local 506 next week, it will be his fourth visit to […]
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A guide to everything else
Indy calendar editor Peter Blackstock scoured our database and came up with this guide to the fall. See our online calendar for details about these events and more. September 4–5 AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL: Live music, arts & crafts market, specialty items and food vendors, etc. City Plaza in downtown Raleigh. www.aacfralwake.org. 4–5 TRACY MORGAN: […]
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On Wildwood, Chatham County Line takes recording into its own hands and delivers its best singing yet
See Related Events below for upcoming shows. Raleigh band Chatham County Line is well-versed in rock ‘n’ roll, even if what you see onstage at one of their shows is four guys playing acoustically around a single microphone. Sure, the instrumentationguitar, banjo, upright bass, fiddle and mandolinreflects traditional bluegrass. Their songwriting, however, frequently reveals that […]
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Magically Delicious
If you’ve never heard of The Frames, you’re not alone. When the Irish band took the stage at Go! Room 4 in February, the vast majority of the packed house was there to see The New Pornographers, the Canadian power-pop outfit that headlined the show. Yet in about 45 minutes, The Frames served notice that […]
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Americana Gold, Texas Style
As telephone interviews go, this one’s a little more complicated than most. Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore are aboard the Flatlanders’ tour bus in a restaurant parking lot, each of them on a cell phone with fading batteries. Butch Hancock, the third Flatlander, is speaking from a pay phone in the restaurant. The four […]
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A Man Under the Influence
“Look–there’s the two osprey. See ’em? Yeah, we saw them fly directly overhead here, and they were holding a fish. It was beautiful … .” Alejandro Escovedo is perched on the upstairs deck at his home on the edge of Canyon Lake in Central Texas, keeping an eye on his airborne friends as they cruise […]
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I’ll Fly Away
It’s Monday evening, Sept. 10, when Gillian Welch calls from Los Angeles for an interview after a weekend of phone-tag. She’s in the midst of a hectic stretch, trying to squeeze in some time with her parents and sister (who live in Los Angeles) while preparing to tape The Tonight Show with Jay Leno the […]