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36841
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David Lee began playing music and creating song lyrics when he was a teenager, which led to his launching of his own record company and his own music. Over the years, his career in music represented an important contribution to folklife, especially vernacular music and occupational folklife in North Carolina and the Southeast.
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24315
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Dave Combs built a Winston-Salem based record company called Combs Music, after leaving his previous job for AT&T. This article discusses his experiences working for AT&T and what ultimately led him to pursue other interests.
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24142
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Laura Balance and Mac McCaughan created Merge Records, a small-scale company that focuses on artists whose main goal is not to merely make it 'big time' to create quality music unlike mainstream pop.
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27665
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Music Makers Relief Foundation is a nonprofit record label dedicated to promoting forgotten blues, gospel, soul, and country artists. Founder Tim Duffy looks specifically for musicians who have the closest connect to the earliest forms of the blues. The label helps promote the artists, rebuild their careers, and pay the artists for their talent. All this is in effort to make sure the artists talent is known and lives on beyond their life and local area.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 31 Issue 40, October 2014, p25-26 Periodical Website
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23277
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Three record stores discuss the comeback that vinyl records have made.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 2, January 2015, p20-21, por Periodical Website
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27070
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Three Lobed Recordings is a small independent label founded and operated almost entirely by Cory Rayborn, a business lawyer based in Jamestown, North Carolina. This weekend, Rayborn throws an all-day Sweet-Sixteen party for the Three Lobed. Many of the label’s standbys, including Bardo Pond and singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, will be on hand, making somewhat rare appearances in support of the rare label.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p29-30, por Periodical Website
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19993
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North Carolina has nurtured a vibrant and diverse regional music recording scene since the 1930s. It was in 1937 that RCA Victor established a recording studio in Charlotte, where acts such as Wade Mainer, The Blue Sky Boys, and J.E. Mainer and the Mountaineers recorded their unique North Carolina sound. Music recording in North Carolina continues to thrive into the 21st century as the musical distinctiveness of the state prompt new artists daily.