Gasoline Stove opens for Memphis the Band Saturday, July 17, at the Blue Bayou Club. Show time is 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $10–$12, and the cover includes the CD. You’ve heard this tidy sentiment: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” If you take your cues from the two key […]
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Dad Rock, or being the proud parent of a terrific record collection
Delta Spirit plays Cat’s Cradle Monday, July 5. The show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10–$12 in advance. David Vandervelde and The Romany Eye open. Patrick Foster, writing in The Washington Post, begins his review of The Gaslight Anthem’s new album American Slang like so: “Though many have tried, Gaslight Anthem might be the […]
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Penny Prophets’ First Run
Penny Prophets release First Run Friday, June 4, at The Cave. Showtime is 10 p.m. On 2006’s We’ve Had Some Trouble, singer-songwriter-guitarist Randy Whitt presented his country-ish rock in a hushed manner that suggested he didn’t want to disturb the folks next door. The same subdued delivery informed a good chunk of his follow-up, The […]
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Mandolin Orange’s Quiet Little Room
If quiet is the new loud, then Carrboro-based, unplugged-Americana duo Mandolin Orange bludgeons your ears bloody. On the debut full-length from Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, low-key moments dominate, and there’s room between notes to drive a semi or a wagon train through, depending on the song’s particular vintage. But quiet isn’t silence, the latter […]
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Locals gather to share songs for Alex Chilton—and stories of his importance
Thank You, Friend: A Tribute to Alex Chilton happens Friday, May 28, with over a dozen acts playing. Showtime is 8 p.m., and $10 is the suggested donation. For more, see www.catscradle.com. “Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes ’round.” It was exaggeration for effectand maybe some wishful thinking, toowhen Paul […]
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Renaissance men Clyde Edgerton and Mike Craver and their books-on-stage
Clyde Edgerton and Mike Craver play the Learned Place house concert Saturday, May 22. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $30. Details and directions The music section of Clyde Edgerton’s curriculum vitae would properly include these entries: recorded and released several CDs, performed music on The Today Show, inspired the song “Floatplane […]
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The quiet chemistry of Carrboro’s Mandolin Orange
Mandolin Orange releases Quiet Little Room at Local 506 Saturday, May 1. Big Fat Gap and Ryan Gustafson open at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $7–$8. It’s a mild spring night in Carrboro, just right for sidewalk sipping, and the two musicians that compose the hushed-country duo Mandolin Orange share a table in front of the […]
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Five to see at Shakori
We scoured the Shakori Hills schedule for this spring 2010 edition and selected the five performers you should see at least once during this four-day festival. Washburn and Fleck join these ranks, of course, as does Bassekou Kouyate, the Malian ngoni player Fleck will join in Silk Hope. THE ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS Old-time country and […]
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Sally Spring’s Made of Stars
Sally Spring joins Jon Shain, Caitlin Cary, Matt Douglas and Greg Humphreys for a Songwriters in the Round show at the Six String Cafe Saturday, April 10. Tickets are $10, and the music starts at 8 p.m. Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Joan Baez and, of course, Johnny Cash: They all have recorded “I […]
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Overmountain Men’s Glorious Day
David Childers, a rough-hewn country singer from Mount Holly, a community just northwest of Charlotte, has sung a lot of words in his music career. Perhaps none have been more poignant than those that end the song “Angola,” though. “I’ll be a prisoner all my life,” Childers sings, his burly voice sounding as rested as […]