It wasn’t until his music career took off that Dwight Yoakam started acting. Trenton, N.J.’s Moot Davis (whose familial roots stretch to West Virginia) was an actor first, traveling in productions of Our Town and The Glass Menagerie. These days, the 29-year-old Davis is based in Nashville and thinking more Tennessee Ernie Ford than Tennessee […]
Rick Cornell
Posted inMusic
The greatest of sleaze
Everybody, it seems, has a favorite Sleazefest memory. Now in its 11th year at Local 506, Chapel Hill’s annual party/rock bacchanalia has that effect on folks. Dave Robertson, the former owner of Local 506 and co-coordinator of this year’s fest with Mary Huff of sleazewill ambassadors Southern Culture on the Skids, remains amazed by the […]
Posted inMusic
Murmurs from the ’80s
It surely wasn’t the first ambitious idea born over a couple of those big blue cups at He’s Not Here on Franklin Street. It probably wasn’t even the first one concocted by Mike Allen and Felix Dover, roommates during their undergrad years at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1982-86. But this one survived the light of the […]
Posted inMusic
College reunion
Dillon Fence was formed by college kids for college kids. Greg Humphreys and Chris Goode played in a band together as students in the same Winston-Salem high school that graduated members of the dB’s and Let’s Active, but the pair didn’t get serious about writing and performing original music until they hit college in the […]
Posted inNews
in porch music
It’s Jerry Partin’s birthday weekend, and in honor of the postmaster/music promoter and Bynum General Store proprietor, there are two days of fun planned on the hill by the Haw. On Friday, July 30, Hobart Willis regroups The Back Forty for an evening of Texas roadhouse-ready rockin’ country. Saturday, July 31 features one of the […]
Posted inNews
Good swim
As someone who grew up across the street from a creek and who is a late-inning, self-taught swimmer who could survive a shipwreck as long as the mishap took place no more than 200 yards offshore, I’ve never been the type to hang around at the community pool. That changed this summer when my son […]
Posted inMusic
Idol Chatter
Kill Your Idols, a book of essays that re-examines 34 albums that have been blessed/cursed with the title “classic,” has the subtitle A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics. It could have just as easily been subtitled A Little Something to Piss Everybody Off. Getting under readers’ skin is clearly one of the […]
Posted inMusic
Yep, rock
For Glenn Dicker, it was watching The Monkees on television. For Tor Hanson, it was bonding sessions with the family around the living-room piano. Two significantly different starting points, but the results were the same: Both guys got hooked on music young. They also became friends young–they were kindergarten buds to be exact–and played in […]
Posted inNews
in rocking the house
Those prone to anxiety attacks inspired by the rapid passing of time might not want to dwell on the realization that it’s been well over 20 years since Marshall Crenshaw‘s “Cynical Girl” first hit the radar. That orchestra-bell-sporting pop gem not only crashed the New Wave dance party, it got invited to stay. The song […]
Posted inMusic
Airwaves
Here’s a reason to huddle around the radio on Thursday, May 19: WXYC 89.3 FM is featuring a show called “Three Hours, Three Decades, Three Times the Headache” from 9 p.m. to midnight. Raleigh’s Jeff Jarema, ‘zine and liner note king and primal-rock aficionado, and his trusted co-host Blast-Off Bob return for one of their […]
