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RURAL AMERICANA: PSYCH, FOLK, & FRINGE IN APPALACHIA

  • Orange Peel 101 Biltmore Avenue Asheville, NC, 28801 United States (map)

PRESENTED BY OXFORD AMERICAN

A conversational concert hosted by Winston-Salem native and Grammy-nominated music historian, Jonathan Kirby. Having spent decades traversing the Old North State in search of records, relics, and stories relating to North Carolina’s decentralized music scene of yore, Kirby will take us on a time-machine tour of Western North Carolina’s outsider music scene, taking attendees on a journey from the points of discovery and into the present day via off-the-cuff conversations and live performances with a hand-picked ensemble of underground greats from the hills and hollers of Appalachia.

Featured performers listed below:

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JOHN MEMORY
JOHN MEMORY

A native of Wagram, North Carolina, John Memory formed the folk-singing trio The Huntsmen in the Spring of 1962 while an undergrad at Wake Forest University. 

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DAVID S. MULL
DAVID S. MULL

The lone entry in David S. Mull’s discography is a doozie—the self-released 45 “Far From Home” b/w “Some Guys Have All The Luck,” recorded in 1974 at David Rumsfeld’s Country Roads Studios in Marion, NC.

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DAN LEWIS
DAN LEWIS

Through the use of overdubs and overnight openings at far flung recording studios, Dan Lewis created the provate-press masterpiece, Towards the Light in 1979—one of only a handful of purely local musical artifacts that document Asheville’s underground music scene during the ’70s.

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JONATHAN KIRBY
JONATHAN KIRBY

Jonathan Kirby is a record collector, author, and producer with the esteemed reissue label, the Numero Group. A native of Winston-Salem, he is an authority on music recorded in the Carolinas, and has amassed thousands of independently produced records from the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, spanning all genres from doo-wop to hip-hop, folk to funk to rock.

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