Favorite musicians from North Carolina

[Tophsdad]

Firehouse:

 

[Tophsdad]

Clinton:

 

[simonsnave]

Mitch Easter, both as a producer (R. E. M.) and as a guitarist (Let's Active)

 

[Top Water]

I thought someone would have mentioned General Johnson by now considering our dance girls perform to his tune at every football game! He may not have been born in NC but lived in Charlotte for a long time. Terrible that a knee replacement caused his death.

 

[Icthyphile]

 

[lca71799]

George Clinton, born in my hometown of Kannapolis, NC.

 

[ivyheel]

Man, no Archers of Loaf mentions yet?

 

[2forheels]

Or The Avett Brothers.

 

[2forheels]

Earl Scruggs

 

[TC4UNCnTX]

Got a photo of him playing The Continental Club hanging on my wall.

I‘ll add Ryan Adam’s to the mix.

 

[MrMikeHoncho]

Doc Watson

 

[GreyGhostUNC]

Big fan of the Avett Brothers. And, funny story, I was on PTA with one of them at my kids' school.

 

[cr333]

Briscoe Darling and Sons

Still lmao! Good job kik.

 

[kik84]

Still lmao! Good job kik.

"Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee" was on the other day!

 

[backer44]

Warren Haynes
James Taylor
Rhiannon Giddens

 

[03 Avery]

Thank you for this thread!

-The O'Kaysions were from the Wilson and Kenly area. "Girl Watcher" was recorded in Greenville.



- Re: Little Eva - she was from Belhaven, I believe. She did live in Kinston later in her life.

 

[2forheels]

Didn't that girls watcher dude get convicted of murder?

 

[FourHeels]

Several big classic country artists not mentioned yet

Ronnie Milsap - Robbinsville
George Hamilton, IV - Winston-Salem (UNC alum)
Don Gibson - Shelby

And known more for his songwriting, Durham's own Don Schlitz (wrote The Gambler, and a bunch of other 70s and 80s country hits)