RTP-area local music and culture

[Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>]

The first thing I would do with you blog would be to include a link to  
trianglerock.com .

Also, who was expecting great things from The Punch Brothers? Chris  
Thile is a tragic figure in my opinion -- a kid with incredible chops  
(Ronnie McCoury describes showing him Monroe's Hornpipe for about five  
minutes when Thile was 14, and a couple hours later the kid was  
ripping it) who was brought along really fast by some stage parents,  
but now he's 27 and he's still trying to figure out what it is he  
likes about music and what he wants to play. I've heard privately that  
he sort of longs to go back to straight up bluegrass and trad. Even  
"This Side," the platinum album, is rife with that tension.

There are at least three mandolin players in the Triangle who could  
set Chris back on the straight path. The man is flat out sick with  
talent.

d




On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:05 PM, valeriemarino AT gmail.com wrote:

> I'll copy what I wrote on the other thread to this one...
>
> I'm the culprit who wrote that column. Figured I'd head off the
> barrage of emails (I'm at 3 so far) by just posting here myself.
>
> To clarify, which I should have done better in the column itself, I
> have nothing against Chapel Hill. I love Chapel Hill! I would actually
> like to move there so I can save on all the gas I use going to shows!
> At the Cary News we are encouraged to keep our focus incredibly local.
> I was referring to the Cary scene, and bits of Raleigh, with that
> remark. Should I have made that more clear? Oh yeah.
>
> I'll also take this opportunity to point you to the music blog I co-
> edit, Triangle Music. (http://trianglemusic.blogspot.com) Check it
> out, tell me what sucks about it, and let me know what you guys, who
> are obviously passionate about and interested in the local scene, want
> to read about.
>
> Feel free to email me at valeriemarino AT gmail.com. I would genuinely
> like to hear what you think.
>
> And, for what it's worth, The Scene is a relatively new feature that
> only started running once a month in The Cary News earlier this year.
> I did a feature on Dunn in the Feb. 7 issue and wanted to interject
> some of my own opinion and toss in a mention of my buddies from Will
> Hoge's band, so that's why there's such a high concentration of
> articles on him. (And I'm not from Nashville, just happen to have a
> few friends there.)
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
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