(From Part One) The world shares a voice when it comes to music, a central expression extracting the best and profoundest in us. Comprised always of sound, in its rhythms, reaches, and rampings up-and-down, music also includes silence, but not […]
This is the first time on this column that we’ve featured a manager and/or a label owner, and I can’t think of a better person to feature than Dolph Ramseur from North Carolina’s Ramseur Records. Around 2003, he approached the Avett […]
Hey kid, take a rip on that antihistamine and give these four new records a listen. First up, we’ve got the hell-raising barroom rock of Sarah Shook and her band, the Disarmers. As staff reviewer Maeri Ferguson so aptly puts it: Shook gives […]
David Childers has been through hell. Along the way, he’s romped with giant reptiles (’95’s Godzilla! He Done Broke Out;) went to some folks’ version of hell, Nashville, to record ’98’s Time Machine, which he later declared to be […]
My wife and I have probably followed the Avetts as much as anyone over the past decade or so of watching/hearing a lot of “Americana” music (et al). And, I probably have some 8 or 10 albums of theirs (incl. […]
Bill and I set out early on this beautiful Tuesday morning, traveling from Pittsboro, NC, to Mount Holly, NC, in order to record another series of Living Room Sessions. This time with the great Americana singer/songwriter, David Childers. David was […]
Petra’s is becoming one of Charlotte, NC’s more popular venues—roomy stage, space for a small crowd, strong sound system, good acoustics, etc., etc., and a wide range of quality acts. My wife and I arrived as David Childers was wrapping […]
The Merlefest organizers in Wilkesboro recently announced performers for 2015. And, of the new bands added to the lineup of the illustrious festival, none is more deserving than Mipso. This Chapel Hill, NC-based group made a name for themselves while […]
David Childers has been treading a winding musical path between secular and sacred for decades. His latest album, Serpents of Reformation takes a detour deep into the gospel side of the road with a fascinating grittiness. After years of music-making, the prolific Childers was […]
There’s a striking quality to the recent homegrown work of Mt. Holly, North Carolina, songwriter David Childers, a tangible ruggedness and restlessness, as if his songs are carved out of old railroad ties and the wood from recycled church pews. […]
