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This Valentine's Day, Come Hear NC wanted to express our undying love for the music and musicians of North Carolina. So we got in our epistolary bag, and drafted some love letters.
Indie rock powerhouses Superchunk are up next for PBS NC's SHAPED BY SOUND, with their episode airing on Thursday, February 20th at 9:30 PM. Over the course of twelve LPs and countless EPs and singles, the band’s mapped out a sound and ethos for alt rock in North Carolina and beyond. Superchunk and Merge Records’ hooky, frenetic form of indie remains influential and vital today.
Africa Unplugged, led by djembe master Atiba Rorie, are next up on the docket for the Come Hear NC Artist Profile treatment. A compelling fusion of West African rhythm with R&B and jazz song structures, the group is known for putting on barn burning live performances in the Triad, Triangle and beyond.
Skylar Gudasz has a classic voice. From the moment you hear it, you know you’re in musical good hands – it won’t falter, and will be strong enough to carry what it promises to completion.
Winston-Salem’s Sonny Miles has a seemingly effortless ability to blend and mix musics. In a way that harkens back to greats like Stevie Wonder and to contemporaries like Frank Ocean, Miles beautifully weds genres (R&B, hip-hop, jazz and soul to name a few), production styles (lo-, mid- and hi-fidelity, analog and digital), and instrumentation (drum machines and acoustic guitars, live vocals and samples).
Alice Gerrard is this week’s featured artist on SHAPED BY SOUND (Thursday, 3/13). She made four records with Hazel Dickens in 1960s and ‘70s, the first two for Folkways and the second for Rounder. Now considered landmarks of old-time and bluegrass, these LPs have had the natural but distorting effect of downplaying Gerrard’s life and career post Hazel & Alice.