Music Of North Carolina
North Carolina is known particularly for its tradition of old-time music, and many recordings were made in the early 20th century by folk song collector Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Most influentially, North Carolina country musicians like the North Carolina Ramblers helped solidify the sound of country music in the late 1920s, while influential bluegrass musicians such as Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Del McCoury came from North Carolina. Arthur Smith is the most notable North Carolina musician/entertainer who had the first nationally syndicated television program which featured country music. Arthur Smith composed Guitar Boogie the all time best selling guitar instrumental and Dueling Banjos the all time best selling banjo composition. Both North and South Carolina are a hotbed for traditional rural blues, especially the style known as the Piedmont blues.
As a college region, the Chapel Hill-Raleigh-Durham area (collectively known as the Triangle) has long been a well-known center for rock, metal, punk and hip-hop. Bands from this popular music scene include Flat Duo Jets, Corrosion of Conformity, Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, The Rosebuds, Love Language, Tift Merritt, Ben Folds Five, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Lords of the Underground, The Apple Juice Kid, Between the Buried and Me, Foreign Exchange, The Justus League and Little Brother.
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—Richard Harter Fogle, U.S. critic, educator. The Imagery of Keats and Shelley, ch. 1, University of North Carolina Press (1949)