For anyone interested in Asheville's country music history from the late 1920s, I recently compiled everything concerning Jimmie Rodgers and Emmett Miller [that] I could find from the microfilm of Asheville's papers of the day. Among the findings are two unpublished photographs of Miller, indisputably one of the most singular and dynamic voices ever to […]
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Curiously enough
“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle Some aspects of Western North Carolina’s grand past and glorious present are known across the country and, indeed, all around this big blue marble. But we won’t bother with them. Instead, we’re here to report on what lurks out on the fringe. […]