- photo by Emily Brown
Rhythmically solid collectivity and well orchestrated country-influenced pop cadence flow through all fourteen tracks exceptionally… Live and Learn is gorgeous… The perfect soundtrack to warm Southern days, so graciously peppered with hints of The Beatles and The Format…
- AbsolutePunk.net
Festival 2009 October 3 @ Blind Tiger Lineup
House of Fools
Amelia’s Mechanics featuring Jim Avett
Greensboro’s own Amelia’s Mechanics delivers ear candy that just about anyone can enjoy. Inspired by the disappearance of Amelia Earhardt, the 3 woman band delivers a self-proclaimed “vintage country with a moonshine concerto” sound, the perfect soundtrack for Southern summer nights.
-Nicole Gabrielle
Stephaniesid
Here’s another great band from Asheville, North Carolina. They’ve played Bonaroo and Bele Chere with all manner of great musicians and artists. They’re also playing as part of the Save the Monkeywhale Festival in Greensboro, NC alongside some of Greensboro’s finest (October 1st, 2nd and 3rd). Signed to the Nine Mile Records Label out of [...]
The Alcazar Hotel featuring Katharine Whalen
This trio from Chapel Hill not only craft great songs, but they make for excellent company and didn’t complain at all when I pointed thousand degree lights in their faces. Oddly, Will Dawson didn’t sweat at all and I’ve been informed by my more conspiratorial friends that that is a sign of a xenoform taking [...]
Bruce Piephoff
Bruce Piephoff shows a mastery of folk here that anyone in the world would envy. He knows exactly how it relates to blues. He knows that a folk artist should never hesitate to express the most educated thoughts and sophisticated sentiments with contractions and colloquialisms.
-Arthur Shuey
Martha Bassett Band
North Carolinians have known Martha’s music for some time now, but in the past couple of years, she’s been finding a new audience throughout the southeast due to increased touring, her work on the Sony Classics film JUNEBUG, festival appearances, and numerous articles in the press.
Martha and her band have opened for Lyle Lovett, played [...]
Sam Frazier
Musicians in Greensboro know Sam Frazier. He’s been playing music for decades with the likes of Scott “Scooter” Manring, Bruce Piephoff, David Driveway Moore, Walrus, the boys from Bus Stop, Tornado, Martha Bassett, Laurelyn Dossett, along with his own band, The Sam Frazier Band and the Hall Monitors with Lisa Dames.
He’s currently working on recording [...]