Some things never change. Like the transformative thrill of a rockin’ first concert. With your parents.
november 2014
The Sound of Ingenuity: Terry McInturff’s Guitars
The recipe for an epic electric guitar solo is simple: Take one rock legend. Eric Clapton will do. Add a guitar made by Siler City’s Terry McInturff. Turn the amp up to 11. Stand back.
The Sound of Escape: A Quest for an FM Converter
AM radio is fine if you’re looking for hog prices or want to listen to monophonic versions of Christmas songs. But, if you’re a teenager in a small North Carolina town in the ’70s, you want — you need — FM.
The Sound of Community: Carolina Gold
On weekends, when other guys his age are content with kicking back and listening to music, Joe Allen is sweating his way through marching band routines — and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Sound of Discovery at Lunchbox Records
Records — you know, the big, round, black discs that introduced you to Nat King Cole and Kenny Rogers and The Beatles — are still spinning at Charlotte’s Lunchbox Records.
Songs in the Key of Life
Music gave us identity. What we listened to told us who we were. And we needed that.
