So this week's James Taylor tour won't be the only get-out-the-vote shows happening here this election season. Coming to UNC-Chapel Hill's Graham Terrace (adjacent to Morehead Planetarium on campus) is a Nov. 1 lineup that offers up a superb slice of local music:

The dB's
Superchunk acoustic (which might be a first)
Ivan Rosebud
Megafaun
I Was Totally Destroying It
Bowerbirds
Greg Humphreys
Regina Hexaphone
Portastatic

It gets going at the rather non-rock-'n'-roll time of 9 a.m., and it's free -- they're even throwing in coffee and doughnuts.

UPDATE: Billy Bragg, who is playing in Durham that night, has been added to the lineup. 

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.