Old roots, new branches | The Year in Music | Independent Weekly …
Dec 19, 2007 Blog
Why and how North Carolina roots music continues to sell. … “We have the musical legacy of genres such as Piedmont blues, of the Carters’ Bristol Sessions on the border, of alt-country Grammy winners like Tift Merritt, and of country stars like Randy Travis—whom my grandmother, Kate Mangum, still down in New Salem, N.C. , taught to play guitar .” And, in 2007, there’s perhaps no better evidence of The Echo in this state than Martin Stephenson, a punk-rock survivor and …
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Old roots, new branches | The Year in Music | Independent Weekly …
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