Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0005
David Menconi
Bill Monroe led a band called the Blue Grass Boys, but bluegrass was not invented until banjo player Earl Scruggs joined in 1945, playing his three-finger “Scruggs Style” of lightning-fast banjo. Cementing his legacy, Scruggs went on to co-lead Flatt & Scruggs and create the ultimate bluegrass instrumental, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.” His fellow North Carolina natives George Shuffler and Bobby Hicks made important sideman contributions with acts including Stanley Brothers and Ricky Skaggs. In the modern era, Steep Canyon Rangers and Chatham County Line continue the tradition.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0010
David Menconi
During the 1980s, North Carolina was a major outpost for that era’s college-radio alternative music. And Ground Zero was Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, which Mitch Easter and other major players attended. Easter and his friends Chris Stamey had been making recordings since childhood, developing studio smarts they applied to music. Working out of a garage studio in his parents’ home, Easter became one of the key producers of the decade, especially for his work with R.E.M.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0011
David Menconi
During the 1990s, record companies were looking for the next big alternative rock breakout and focused a lot of attention on Chapel Hill, where bands like Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and Polvo resided. Two Chapel Hill bands would hit it big, but they were the last two anyone would have expected -- the hot-jazz band Squirrel Nut Zippers and piano-pop trio Ben Folds Five.
在20世纪90年代，唱片公司正在寻找下一个另类摇滚的大突破，并将大量注意力集中在教堂山，那里有像Superchunk, Archers of Loaf和Polvo这样的乐队。教堂山的两支乐队大获成功，但他们是大家最意想不到的两支乐队——热爵士乐队Squirrel Nut Zippers和钢琴流行三重奏Ben Folds Five。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0006
David Menconi
Ray Charles gets credit for turning gospel into soul music in the early 1950s, but Winston-Salem’s “5” Royales beat him to the top of the R&B charts by a couple of years. The Royales were a key transitional act in soul’s evolution, with a particular gift for bawdiness. They also contributed a number of oft-covered standards, most notably “Dedicated to the One I Love.” Steve Cropper of the legendary Memphis soul combo Booker T & the MG’s has admitted that Royales guitarist Lowman Pauling was his biggest influence.
雷·查尔斯因在20世纪50年代早期将福音音乐转变为灵魂音乐而受到赞誉，但温斯顿-塞勒姆的“5”Royales在R&B排行榜上领先他几年。《皇家》是灵魂进化的一个关键的过渡行为，具有淫秽的特殊天赋。他们还贡献了一些经常被提及的标准，最著名的是“献给我爱的人”。传奇孟菲斯灵魂组合Booker T & the MG的Steve Cropper承认Royales吉他手Lowman Pauling对他影响最大。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0013
David Menconi
In the shadow of alternative rock, another generation went back to country music with a punk edge. In the 1990s it was called alternative country, and North Carolina had the highest and best concentration of such bands in America -- from old-timers like Red Clay Ramblers and Southern Culture on the Skids to newcomers like Backsliders and 6 String Drag. That has persisted into the present-day Americana age with bands including Hiss Golden Messenger, American Aquarium and Mandolin Orange.
在另类摇滚的阴影下，另一代人带着朋克的气息回归乡村音乐。在20世纪90年代，它被称为另类乡村，北卡罗来纳州是美国此类乐队最集中的地方——从红粘土漫步者(Red Clay Ramblers)和南方文化滑板乐队(Southern Culture on the Skids)等老牌乐队到Backsliders和6 String Drag等新乐队。这一直延续到今天的美国时代，乐队包括Hiss Golden Messenger, American Aquarium和Mandolin Orange。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.001.0001
David Menconi
This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina’s extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state’s music, where traditions run deep but the energy expands in countless directions. Menconi shows how working-class roots and rebellion tie North Carolina’s Piedmont blues, jazz, and bluegrass to beach music, rock, hip-hop, and more. From mill towns and mountain coves to college-town clubs and the stage of American Idol, Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, Step It Up and Go celebrates homegrown music just as essential to the state as barbecue and basketball. Spanning a century of history from the dawn of recorded music to the present, and with sidebars and photos that help reveal the many-splendored glory of North Carolina’s sonic landscape, this is a must-read for every music lover.
这本书是一封写给艺术家、场景和声音的情书，这些艺术家、场景和声音定义了北卡罗来纳州对美国流行音乐的非凡贡献。大卫·门科尼(David Menconi)花了30年时间沉浸在该州的音乐中，这里的传统根深蒂固，但能量却向无数方向扩展。Menconi展示了工人阶级的根源和反抗是如何将北卡罗来纳州的皮埃蒙特蓝调、爵士和蓝草音乐与海滩音乐、摇滚、嘻哈等联系在一起的。从工厂小镇和山湾到大学城俱乐部和美国偶像的舞台，盲童富勒和多克沃森到尼娜西蒙和Superchunk, Step It Up and Go庆祝本土音乐，就像烧烤和篮球一样对这个州至关重要。跨越一个世纪的历史，从录制音乐的黎明到现在，并与侧边栏和照片，帮助揭示许多辉煌辉煌的北卡罗莱纳州的声音景观，这是一个必读的每一个音乐爱好者。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0012
David Menconi
Superchunk never hit it big, but their label Merge Records did, scoring chart-topping records and an Album Of The Year Grammy Award with Montreal’s Arcade Fire. They were just the latest and greatest label in local history, going back to Colonial Records, which released Andy Griffith’s 1953 hit routine “What It Was, Was Football.” In Durham, Sugar Hill Records became one of the top bluegrass labels in the 1980s. But while other labels came and went, Merge was the one with the most staying power of all.
Superchunk从未大获成功，但他们的厂牌Merge Records却取得了成功，他们的唱片登上了排行榜榜首，并与蒙特利尔的Arcade Fire乐队一起获得了格莱美年度最佳专辑奖。他们只是当地历史上最新、最伟大的唱片公司，可以追溯到殖民唱片公司(Colonial Records)，该公司发行了安迪·格里菲斯(Andy Griffith) 1953年的热门歌曲《What It Was, Was Football》。在达勒姆，糖山唱片公司成为20世纪80年代顶级蓝草唱片公司之一。但当其他唱片公司来来去去时，Merge是其中最具持久力的一个。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0008
David Menconi
In the decades after World War II, a subculture of beach music emerged in segregated, Jim Crw coastal resort towns in North and South Carolina, when vacationing white kids would sneak across the tracks to the nightclubs in the “colored” parts of town to listen to R&B songs from jukeboxes and deejays. A style of dance called “shagging” emerged to go with it, and those kids took it off to college, where a generation of R&B bands including The Drifters, The Coasters, “5” Royales and many others played the campus frat-house circuit. When those white kids started forming bands, too, The Embers emerged as the greatest of the latterday beach bands.
在第二次世界大战后的几十年里，海滩音乐的亚文化出现在北卡罗来纳州和南卡罗来纳州的种族隔离的海滨度假小镇上，度假的白人孩子会偷偷地穿过轨道到镇上“有色人种”地区的夜总会，从自动点唱机和dj那里听R&B歌曲。随之而来的是一种名为“shagging”的舞蹈风格，这些孩子们把它带到了大学，包括The Drifters, The Coasters，“5”Royales和许多其他R&B乐队在内的一代R&B乐队在校园兄弟会巡回演出。当那些白人孩子也开始组建乐队时，余烬乐队成为了当代最伟大的海滩乐队。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0009
David Menconi
After forming as a beach band called Stax of Gold, Nantucket emerged as North Carolina’s top mainstream rock act of the 1970s. At a time when few acts in the state could attract the record industry, Nantucket signed to the major label Epic Records and had a good run through the 1970s and into the ’80s as a hard-working touring act. They also never completely left beach music behind, with horns and R&B a part of their sound, creating a template for North Carolina bands playing overtly mainstream music even when it was out of fashion.
在组建了一支名为Stax of Gold的海滩乐队后，Nantucket成为了20世纪70年代北卡罗来纳州最顶尖的主流摇滚乐队。在这个州几乎没有什么艺人能吸引唱片行业的时候，楠塔基特签下了大厂牌Epic Records，并在20世纪70年代到80年代期间作为一个勤奋的巡演艺人表现得很好。他们也从未完全抛弃海滩音乐，号角和R&B是他们声音的一部分，为北卡罗来纳乐队创造了一个模板，即使在主流音乐已经过时的时候，他们也会公开演奏主流音乐。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0002
David Menconi
Charles Cleveland “Charlie” Poole was a banjo-playing mill laborer who lived an eventful life before passing at age 39 from one alcohol binge too many. He was arguably the most important musician to emerge from the stringbands populating mill towns across the North Carolina Piedmont -- a working-class hero as well as an important crossroads figure in the 1920s evolution of old-time music into what became bluegrass and country music, recording songs that remain bluegrass-festival standards to this day. And yet he has never been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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