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Section 1. Carolina music connections. The glory road / Woody Mitchell -- God's trombones: the shout band tradition in the United House of Prayer for All People / Tom Hanchett -- Why Marshall Sehorn matters / Jonathan Singer -- Gullah gospel: preserving spirituals of another race, time / Dan Huntley -- A club foot in the door: diary of a mad promoter / John Jeter -- "Chevy van" / Tommy Tomlinson -- Section 2. The entertainers. Duelin' banjos: Arthur Smith and Don Reno / Frye Gaillard -- Etta Baker: one-diming it / Clair DeLune -- Earl Scruggs: the banjoman / Joe DePriest -- DeWitt "Snuffy" Jenkins / Sam Boykin -- Doc Watson: idol conversation / Timothy C. Davis -- John Coltrane: key notes / Richard Garrison -- Thelonious Monk / Sam Stephenson -- Dizzy Gillespie / David Perlmutt -- Billy Taylor: music for the millennium / T. Brooks Separd -- The Carolina bebop kings / Steve Crump -- harlie Daniels / Woody Mitchell -- Ben E. King / Phillip Brown -- Loonis, Alec and the American songbook / Jerry Shinn -- Nina Simone put a spell on us / Charles Blackburn Jr. -- Link Wray / Brendan McKennedy -- Peg Leg Jackson: the last medicine show / Jerry Bledsoe -- Hope Nicholls / Courtney Devores -- Gary Erwin: Charleston's "Shrimp city slim" / Clair DeLune -- Tommy Faile: crackerjack country / Jack Dillard -- Little Eva / Mick Patrick and Malcolm Baumgart -- Dad, Sam Moss and me / Peter Holsapple -- Richard "Big boy" Henry / Janet Hartman -- Gina Stewart: go your own way / Shelia Saints -- Maurice Williams / Ann Wicker -- Hip-hop in the Carolinas / Clyde Smith -- Pink Anderson / Peter Cooper -- Carlisle Floyd / K. Michael Prince -- Randy Travis / Woody Mitchell -- Shirley Caesar: the singing evangelist / Matt Ehlers -- Fred Wesley, Jr.: sideman extraordinaire / Anne Wicker -- Live from the revival, it's James Brown! / John Grooms -- James Taylor / David Perlmutt -- Section 3. The bands. Hootie comes home / Michael Leon Miller -- In the swing / Mark McGrath -- Carolina chocolate drops: the kids are all right / Lynn Farris -- The Accelerators: riding the dream train / Baker Maultsby -- Conquering the world, one gig at a time / Courtney Devores -- The scream / Steve Stoeckel -- Southern culture on the skids / Grant Britt -- The Marshall Tucker Band / Ann Wicker -- How the west won us / Bland Simpson -- Despised by all the right people / Don Dixon -- Section 4. Music experiences. Catching smoke / Kevin Winchester -- The last waltz blues jam / Bob Margolin -- Roger Burt: Sunday serenade / Lori K. Tate -- The chords that bind: traditional music in the south / Si Kahn -- A country music moment / Frye Gaillard -- Drinking, dogs and darlin' Corey / Marjorie Hudson -- Tom Dooley: bound to die / Sharyn McCrumb -- Heavy rebels / Ed Southern -- Hotel Charlotte / Lew Herman -- The man in black has left the building / Fred Mills -- The new old MerleFest shuffle / Rick Cornell -- An orchestra is born / Meg Freeman Whalen -- Mount Airy confidential / Kent Priestley -- Beach music: heart and soles / Rev. Billy C. Wirtz -- The new southern rock / Mark Kemp -- One night at the Gaston / David Childers. |
