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Big Daddy Bluegrass Band Returns

by Jedd Ferris January 28, 2011

Steve “Big Daddy” McMurry, front man for long time North Carolina newgrass crew Acoustic Syndicate, has unveiled a new line-up and announced new tour dates for his occasional supergroup, the Big Daddy Bluegrass Band. The side project will perform for the first time in five years next month, playing at the Visulite Theater in Charlotte [...]

Blowing Rock, N.C.

by Jedd Ferris January 3, 2011

For Brian Baldwin, winter is the best time to be in Blowing Rock. The snowbirds have gone south for the season, and the quaint mountain village—perched at 4,000 feet just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in the North Carolina High Country—becomes the perfect kind of quiet small town. Particularly, it shrinks from somewhere around 8,000 [...]

The Underground Odyssey of Col. Bruce Hampton

by Jedd Ferris January 3, 2011

It makes sense that Col. Bruce Hampton is a baseball fan, because the underground music legend is kind of like a minor league manager. During a recent phone conversation, he informs me that I share a birthday with Cal Ripken, Jr., and that retired all-star pitcher Virgil Trucks (uncle and great uncle of the Allman [...]

We Are the Champions

by Jedd Ferris January 3, 2011

MEET THE SOUTH’S PEAK PERFORMERS OF 2010 KRISTEN PRICE tops in the mountains North Carolina’s central piedmont doesn’t sound like ideal training ground for the U.S. Mountain Running Championships, but it worked just fine for Kristen Price. In June, the Raleigh-based Price traveled to New Hampshire and claimed victory at the Mt. Washington Road Race—a [...]

Top 10 Albums of 2010

by Jedd Ferris December 13, 2010

Indulge me for a moment, as I add to the huge lot of music media outlets casting their year-end, best-of lists out into the world.

Ski Film Family

by Jedd Ferris November 30, 2010

Father and son team provide the sounds for Warren Miller When it comes to indulging in ski porn, if the music sucks a snowball, it doesn’t matter how good the action is. Kim Schneider knows this. He’s edited stick flicks for ski film bard Warren Miller for 32 years. His job entails matching the right [...]