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Article: Indie dependent: Dolph Ramseur keeps harmony with the Avett Brothers and other artists on his tiny Concord-based record label.(FEATURE)
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- March 1, 2007
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To Dolph Ramseur, the twang of finger-picked guitar combined with vocals sung in a deep Southern drawl is the music angels make. As a teenager, he spent many days at the Concord Public Library looking up old Piedmont blues musicians: Etta Baker, Blind Willie McTell, the Rev. Gary Davis. At night, he would tune his radio to Davidson College's campus station, where he heard very different sounds: the charging punk rock and brooding new wave of such early '80s bands as Dead Kennedys and Echo & the Bunnymen. What if these radically different styles could be merged, he wondered. Would the result sound as passionate and immediate as the rock 'n' roll that came out of Memphis in ...
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