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On the Beat: David Menconi on music

News & Observer music critic David Menconi's random (and we do mean random) musings about all things related to music and culture of the "popular" variety.

Greg Humphreys steps out

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It's taken Greg Humphreys nearly 20 years to do his first solo album under his own name, "Trunk Songs," an odds-and-sods collection of songs he's been holding onto for years. But since both his other bands are essentially inactive, another will probably follow pretty soon.

"I've already got another one cooking with some newer songs," he says. "'Trunk Songs' was kind of clearing the deck for me, and since I'm not road-doggin' it, I've got a lot more energy and enthusiasm for digging into these kind of projects. And the beautiful thing about this era is I did this record all myself and it didn't really cost anything beyond printing up some copies to sell at shows."

For more, see the interview in Friday's paper. Humphreys plays Sunday at the Shakori Hills Fall Festival.

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About the blogger

David Menconi has been the News & Observer's music critic since 1991. Before that, he spent five years at the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo. He has a masters in journalism from the University of Texas and a B.A. in English from Southwestern University. You can find more of his writing here.

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