The third installment of the Hopscotch Music Festival played out in the streets and clubs of Raleigh. As with years prior, hair of the dog, ear plugs and good shoes helped me through the non-stop club hop and jive, through in the end I still felt more dead [...]
It could of been the free doughnut holes talking, but sound was divine. Voices climbed and blended with one another high above thanks to the superpub resonance of the wood floor and the vaulted wood ceiling. It’s a good thing that I travel with a nice audio recorder [...]
On two occasions, in two very different seasons, I traveled to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to make some pictures with Justin Vernon, Bon Iver. Jagjaguwar has commissioned the shoots for use in promotion of his second album, Bon Iver. There’s a lot I could say about the wonderfully encouraging [...]
Think of all a child learns between birth and the age of 5 — interpreting a new world, becoming aware of its body and its senses, crawling, walking, developing language to relate to others. Now imagine that same small child with a pair of thick glasses, some wondrous guitar licks, a mammoth beard [...]
Have Tuba, Will Travel, Blount St., Raleigh, NC, Hopscotch, Sept. 10, 2011
It’s over. Well, it’s been done for nearly a week, but I finally feel like I’ve recovered from Hopscotch. Going into this year’s festival I made what preparations I could based off last year’s experiences. Good running shoes, [...]
Mr. Gates, St. James Missionary Baptist Church, Mississippi, 2007
This August has been a tumultuous month, with a monster hurricane, intense home renovations and humidity as thick as brick to weigh you down in day and keep you up in the night. As the eighth month of 2011 draws to a close I’m reminded of [...]

