From Combo Corner to the World: the Diaspora of the Winston-Salem Sound Community Event Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
MUSE Winston-Salem is launching the new, monthly Arts and Performance Programming Series and this will be the perfect kick-off! We re partnering with the Ramkat to bring you a fun musical program about Winston-Salem and North Carolina music. Our panelists are author David Menconi and two legendary Winston-Salem musicians: Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple.
Menconi’s new book Step It Up & Go: the Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk was released last October on UNC Press. You can purchase this book at Bookmarks with a discount, by following this link: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/NCMusic and using the code MUSIC21.
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Joey Molland and Badfinger still have friends in high places, just as they did when they enjoyed the backing of The Beatles and Apple Records before everything went sideways. Happily dwelling in the past the good parts at least the star-studded collaborations of
No Matter What: Revisiting the Hits wax nostalgic in artfully reimagining Badfinger’s best bruised balladry and power-pop serenades to party like it’s 1970-72.
Only minor surgery is performed here, with little nips and tucks, like Rick Wakeman’s curling piano flourishes on the Paul McCartney-penned “Come and Get It,” which retains its colorful Beatlesque pomp and circumstance. A summery “Day After Day” sounds fresh as a daisy with Ian Anderson’s flute fluttering about and the purity of Terry Reid’s vocals cutting through the well-arranged, chamber pop nesting of the Manchester String Quartet, while a faithful version of “No Matter What” comes on strong, joyously pumping out grit and radiant light from
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