• More photos of Loudermilk “Durham during the ’40s and the ’50s was a kid on a bicycle with shorts and no shoes. And I had the bicycle to beat all bicycles. A yellow bicycle with chrome fenders, big whitewall tires, a si-reen, a horn and stuff that hung from the handlebars. The faster I […]
Rick Cornell
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The Dynamites with Charles Walker
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “I’m really what you call a soul singer,” says Charles Walker. He might as well add “well-traveled” to that description: Walker got his recording start with Ted Jarrett in Nashville (Charles Walker & the Daffodils’ “No Fool No More” can be […]
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Schnitzel’s “Truck Bedliner”
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Jim “Schnitzel” O’Brien is a music fan. You can hear it in his songs, like “Broken Bottle,” which seems to take half a record collection and distill it into a rousing 1:47. You can sense it in the way he talks […]
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Allen Toussaint at the NCMA
With his dark suit and regal bearing, Allen Toussaint was an oasis of elegance at the foot of a quickly rising hill of shorts and T-shirts during his two-hour performance at the North Carolina Museum of Art two weeks ago. Impressively, he maintained that elegance when his microphone malfunctioned the first time he tried to […]
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Patty Griffin
The term folk singer brings to mind an overly earnest performer with an acoustic guitar in hand and songs with a social consciousness, a political agenda or at least good stories. One word that probably doesn’t pop into a lot of heads when thinking of folk songs is soulful. Then again, a lot of heads […]
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The next batch of local releases
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The Triangle’s music community continues its especially strong, fertile year. More reviews from […]
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Adam Thorn and the Top Buttons
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “Seems like we’re trying to relive the past,” offers Greensboro’s (soon to be Carrboro’s) Adam Thorn about halfway through his debut, Where’s the Freedom? Is that a mission statement or a throwaway line? After all, when you title a song “The […]
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Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Back in the fall of 1998, a package show called “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”a tour pairing husband-and-wife Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis with Richard Buckner stopped at The ArtsCenter. At one point, Willis referred to Robison as “my […]
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John Doe
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. John Doe has no problem sharing the microphone. Across his nearing-30-year career, Doe has gone heavy on songs driven by two voiceshis own and that of a woman. X thrived on the tangled harmonies of Doe and Exene Cervenka, and Juliana […]
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Girls Rock NC
Amelia V.B. Shull has a mission: “Community. Creativity. Confidence.” Derek Butler has a philosophy: “Students should learn to really understand music and to improvise and create music.” Shull (an Independent contributor) is the coordinator of Girls Rock NC, a rock ‘n’ roll camp for young girls that’s getting ready to start its fourth summer. The […]