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David Menconi

David Menconi is a journalist in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was 2019 Piedmont Laureate. He spent 34 years writing for daily newspapers, 28 of them at the Raleigh News & Observer. He holds a Master’s in journalism from the University of Texas and an English Bachelor of Arts from Southwestern University. He has written for Billboard, Rolling Stone, The New York Times and Spin while publishing four books, most recently “Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk” (2020, University of North Carolina Press).

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Therapy for the Rural World

Americana speaks country music truths

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Emotional Virtuosos

The great 2020 pandemic shutdown forced a worldwide rethinking of how to do live music as artists scrambled to find solutions involving livestreams or social-distancing. North Carolina’s Avett Brothers seized upon that moment with a get-back move, reconnecting with their own past in various ways.

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Americana Dream Team

Watching Punch Brothers perform is akin to watching the Showtime-era Los Angeles Lakers run the fast-break offense, with mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile in the role of Magic Johnson at the point guard. It’s not simply that they exude effortlessness in their virtuosity, it’s that they do it in such a way that the magic they make seems inevitable.

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