Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0015
David Menconi
As a crossroads state, North Carolina’s population has more than doubled since 1970. Musical immigrants move here for the same reasons as everyone else: quality of life, cost of living, scenery, inspiration. The influx includes everyone from jazz giant Branford Marsalis to electronic inventor Bob Moog. It runs two ways, however, with African-Americans fleeing the Jim Crow South for brighter futures up North -- Nina Simone, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk among them.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0004
David Menconi
Arthur Smith was a guitarist, bandleader and songwriter with a couple of standards to his name, “Guitar Boogie” and “Feudin’ Banjos.” But most of all, he was a multi-media genius who created a business empire in Charlotte based on his syndicated television show “Carolina Calling,” which aired for more than three decades. Everyone from Johnny Cash to Richard Nixon appeared on his show. Arthur Smith Enterprises also owned record labels, publishing companies, and the Charlotte recording studio where James Brown recorded “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” in 1965. When “Feudin’ Banjos” appeared in the 1972 movie “Deliverance” as “Dueling Banjos,” Smith sued and won.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0014
David Menconi
Another group of one-time North Carolina punks playing quieter is Avett Brothers, the Concord duo of Seth and Scott Avett. They’ve worked incredibly hard, touring the world and headlining festivals while growing more mature, stately, and majestic as a recording act with producer Rick Rubin. And they still live and work at home, in the Concord area.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0007
David Menconi
During the big folk revival, one of the acts to emerge was blind guitarist Arthel “Doc” Watson. He became a legendary and much-beloved figure on the folk circuit, with a highly influential style of flat-picking, even though he himself always claimed to be nothing special. Gone since 2012, Watson’s influence lives on through MerleFest, the annual music festival in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, that he started in the 1980s to honor his late son and accompanist Merle Watson.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0017
David Menconi
During its run, the singing-contest show “American Idol” produced the statistical oddity that three of its 15 winners came from North Carolina -- 20 percent, far more than any other state. The show’s rise coincided with the decline of the record industry, which was grappling with plummeting record sales. In 2006’s fifth season, the year three of the show’s top-eight finalists were from North Carolina, “American Idol” was at its peak as one of the last, best ways to sell records. Scotty McCreery, Fantasia Barrino, Chris Daughtry, and Clay Aiken are among North Carolina’s native sons and daughters to ride it to fame.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-19DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469659350.003.0016
David Menconi
North Carolina has always had a solid hip-hop scene, even if the state’s “Cackalacka” nickname has been synonymous with “rural rube” ever since the Queens trio A Tribe Called Quest’s 1991 song “Scenario” (“New York, North Cackalacka and Compton…”). Rap hit-makers to emerge from North Carolina in the 1990s include Sanford’s Black Sheep, of “The Choice Is Yours” fame; and Lords of the Underground, a trio that formed at Raleigh’s Shaw University. In 2001, the year that Petey Pablo hit it big with the North Carolina hit anthem “Raise Up,” Little Brother formed at Durham’s NC Central University. Little Brother was proudly old-school in sound as well as outlook, a throwback to the Tar Heel state’s soul-era glory days, and the group had a good run before winding down around 2010. Little Brother producer/deejay 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit) has emerged as a major figure in college classrooms.
北卡罗莱纳一直有一个坚实的嘻哈场景，尽管自从皇后区三人组a Tribe Called Quest在1991年的歌曲“Scenario”(“纽约，北Cackalacka和康普顿……”)之后，该州的绰号“Cackalacka”就成了“农村乡巴佬”的代名词。上世纪90年代，北卡罗来纳州涌现出了一批热门说唱歌手，其中包括桑福德的《黑羊》(Black Sheep)，以《选择权在你》(the Choice Is your)闻名;以及在罗利邵氏大学组成的三人组合“地下领主”。2001年，就在皮特·巴勃罗(Petey Pablo)凭借北卡罗来纳州热门歌曲《Raise Up》大获成功的那一年，“小兄弟”在达勒姆的北卡罗来纳州中央大学成立。“小兄弟”乐队在音色和外貌上都以老派风格而自豪，让人回想起这个焦油脚跟州灵魂时代的辉煌岁月。在2010年左右解散之前，这个乐队曾有过一段不错的发展。小兄弟的制作人兼dj第九奇迹(帕特里克·杜西特饰)已经成为大学课堂上的重要人物。
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