This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by David Menconi, author of Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, which is published by our friends at University of North Carolina Press. Topics of discussion include Charlie Poole's inexcusable absence from the Country Music Hall of Fame, Durham, North Carolina's indifference to its own blues history, how Earl Scruggs was like Beethoven and Bach, Mitch Easter's responsibility for bringing David to North Carolina, The Squirrel Nut Zippers and Ben Folds Five as Chapel Hill's claim to fame in the era of grunge, 9th Wonder's production on Kendrick Lamar's DAMN, American Idol, and much more. Signed copies of Step It Up and Go can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.
053--Bookin' w/ Alan Gratz (Part One)
052--Bookin w/ M. Randal O'Wain (Part Two)
051--Bookin' w/ M. Randal O'Wain (Part One)
050--Bookin' w/ Karl Marlantes (Part Two)
049--Bookin' w/ Karl Marlantes (Part One)
048--Bookin' w/ Mary M. Lane
047--Bookin' w/ Tupelo Hassman
046--Bookin' w/ Randall Munroe
045--Bookin' w' Kwame Mbalia
044--Bookin' w/ Mary Doria Russell
043--Bookin' w/ Ann Patchett
042--Bookin' w/ Alexandra Fuller
041--Bookin' w/ Douglas Waller
040--Bookin' w/ Nathan Ballingrud
039--Bookin' w/ Cara Black
038--Bookin' w/ Martha Hall Kelly
037--Bookin' w/ Julie Kibler
036--Bookin' w/ Charles Fishman
035--Bookin' w/ Jessica Handler
034--Bookin' w/ Michael Parker
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Lit Society: Books and Drama
Ex Libris
Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
Gulliver’s Travels
Anne of Avonlea
Fresh Air
Myths and Legends