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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.
We may be in the grip of a crushing recession, but good roadshows keep turning up on the schedule. The latest is the versatile pop/country siren Neko Case, who Frank Heath has booked into Raleigh's Meymandi Hall on April 7.
Also on the bill, Crooked Fingers, the band led by Chapel Hill expatriate Eric Bachmann. Tickets go on sale Friday.
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.; and before that, he earned a journalism masters degree from the University of Texas (on top of an English degree from Southwestern University). You can find more of his writing here.