And the most recent show I saw you at:

Chip Robinson Sexteto.

I feel seen.

Of all the things that have never happened, this right here is the one that never happened the most.

After murdering Good in broad daylight and cold blood, the regime and its minions have slandered Good, declared Good to be a domestic terrorist, mocked the memory of Good, claimed that Good "had it coming" and more.

Were this fiction, it would be dismissed as heavy-handed.

Singer, songwriter, painter, photographer -- & freshman physics student at NC State University at age 55. Truly, Jonathan Byrd contains multitudes. Read all about it in my latest for Orange County Arts Commission.

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Moderatechunk

Thanks so much for this -- which I am just now seeing! Really appreciate it. Let me know if you'd like one of these buttons, I'd be happy to send it your way.

Beach Fossils - This Year (Official Audio) YouTube video by BeachFossilsVEVO

Look up Ken Yates. I'm also partial to Beach Fossils, start with "Down the Line" and this one:

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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.” The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

The most tragic thing I've read in recent memory. :(

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Oh, bless Joe R's heart. Somebody tell him that rain is wet, too.

Where Texas meets North Carolina: Alejandro Escovedo brings it all back home As repeatedly noted here, there and everywhere over the years, Alejandro Escovedo is a personal North Star for me. I regularly have musical experiences I enjoy, even love. But an Alejandro show con…

While I'm a lot more comfortable on the page than the stage, occasionally I do find myself there.

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It would be ever so nice if no one paid the slightest bit of attention to anything Bill Maher says.

You may say I'm a dreamer -- but I'm not the only one.

Paging folks in Raleigh/Durham, NC -- cool program Wednesday nite at @quailridgebooks.bsky.social. Come on out!

www.quailridgebooks.com/event/davidm...

Catchy. I like it.

#TrumpAlwaysChickensOut

Hard news today, Sugar Hill Records founder Barry Poss has died at age 79. Truly, one of the finest music-industry folks I've ever met. You can tell how much I thought of Barry by how often I quoted him (a lot). I'll miss him terribly.

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##NowReading Step It Up & Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music by
@dmenconi.bsky.social
#BookSky

Word to bsky.app/profile/dsha... -- I've been working on a story updating the cast of the 74-75 video 50 years after graduation. That will be in the June issue of Walter magazine.

Attention, anyone in the vicinity of Durham, NC -- come on out to the main Durham public library on Roxboro Road, 3pm today (Saturday, 4/12/2025) for a cool program about North Carolina music. I'll have buttons to give away, and even books to sell!

And look what just showed up in the mail, a few copies of the book we'll be talking about (and selling, I hope!).

@dmenconi.bsky.social & @paulfriedrich.bsky.social, 2 Raleigh pop culture icons, scheduled for author events the same week in June @quailridgebooks.bsky.social ? Yes please!

"the smartest I've ever worked with" is not the flex she thinks it is.

I think what they REALLY want is AI-run automation -- no labor costs at all.

(I call them #AlbumCoverCats, because they're always striking poses that look like LP cover art.)