There’s a lengthy list of things that make the Festival for the Eno a unique gathering, so let’s start with two: the home-cooked meals that women from the community prepare for the musicians, and the wooden stages that are built anew each year. That combination of civic pride, attention to detail and desire to do […]
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“Dad! You rock!”
Fatherhood doesn’t get the best rap: The best-known song about a father-and-son relationship, after all, is the Shel Silverstein-penned, Johnny Cash-owned “A Boy Named Sue”or, as it’s known clinically, manufactured gender confusion as absentee-parenting technique. Not very realistic or kind, eh? Still, there are plenty of real fathers writing about their very real relationships with […]
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Triangle Blues Society benefit for the Blue Bayou Club
“The blues are truly timeless,” says Lenny Terenzi of Mighty Lester and the new president of the Triangle Blues Society. “A recording that came out in the last year, you put it on and you’d swear it was made in the ’50s.” Sure, the blues keep floating in time, but the venue that’s become the […]
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Hank Sinatra
Some nightsnamely, Friday and Saturdayyou just need to let loose. That’s when subtlety doesn’t play well, when the guitars are amped up and twangy, and the frontguy’s delivery suggests that he’s been there, done that, and used the T-shirt to mop up the flesh wound. The songs are probably about love gone wrong coupled with […]
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Movie madness
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Rick Cornell’s entry “On the Duke Side” on the Independent‘s music blog, Scan. With last year’s graduation of Mistie Williamsa starting power forward on the Lady Devils hoop team and, more pop-culturally significant, the daughter of frequent Cameron Indoor Stadium visitor Chubby CheckerDuke basketball is a little less […]
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Raleigh’s Old Hat Records digs deep into a rich past
Raleigh’s Old Hat Records is headquartered in a refurbished blacksmith shop that dates back to the 1920s, an ideal spot for the musical rescue and restoration work from that era that label founder Marshall Wyatt performs. Wyatt, working with Charlottesville-based sound engineer/wizard Christopher King, is currently in the middle of three projects, all of which […]
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band Local funk ensemble Children of the Horn opens Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh Thursday, Feb. 8, doors at 8 p.m., music at 9 p.m. Tickets: $13 in advance, $15 the day of the show At the dawn of the ’70s, Marvin Gaye looked at the hardship and despair in his Detroit and asked […]
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The Bottle Rockets
The Bottle Rockets Hideaway BBQ, Raleigh Saturday, Jan. 27, 9 p.m. With Tom Gillam & Tractor Pull and Otis Gibbs Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door It took almost 20 years and eight albums, but The Bottle Rockets frontman Brian Henneman finally did it: He made the album he wanted to make. “It’s […]
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The ArtsCenter gears up for its biggest season yet
The ArtsCenter’s American Roots Series (click for full schedule below) Opening night: Friday, Jan. 5, 8:30 p.m. Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen, opener Rod Picott Tickets: $28 Saturday, Jan. 6 and Sunday, Jan. 7 Red Clay Ramblers Tickets: $17 Details: www.artscenterlive.org Tess Mangum Ocaña talks about the American Roots Series like a string of weddings: […]
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Young bluesman Slick Ballinger turns to the gospel; keeps promises to family
Listen! Listen to Slick Ballinger’s “Talkin’ ‘Bout Jesus” from his debut album Mississippi Soul. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to download the free Flash Player. Listen! Listen to Slick Ballinger’s “Talkin’ ‘Bout Jesus” from his debut album Mississippi Soul. If you cannot see the music player below, click here to […]