As much as she might have liked the room to believe her, such expectations were more or less foolish. The tragicomic tale of the offspring of D. Ray and Bertie Mae White was appallingly detailed in the 2009 documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia,.

Nostalgia, Frank Fairfield pointed out last Friday night, is an affliction to which few in history have been immune. Like a walking compendium of folk music lore, the old-time iconoclast could spend as much time talking about the songs he played at the Haw River Ballroom as he did playing them.

They started under another name in 2003 with only keyboards and bass out of necessity. Today they’re essentially still a group of just keyboards and bass, but that’s because it’s who they are. You’d hardly know it from the arresting stage presence of Herring, but there was actually a time that he and his bandmates were nervous about performing.

Zydeco heir apparent CJ Chenier, at last working in a period where there was a Grammy to be won for the style of music his father Clifton singlehandedly made popular, goes about his usual, methodical process of conceiving new music.

While Gary Clark, Jr. was busy pulling in all the accolades as the young savior of black blues music in 2011, Joe Lewis put out an album that recalled a vastly different segment of it.

Already having been christened with two near-capacity per phonist Clint Maedgen crooned the Charles Brown holiday classic “Please formances earlier this year, #003’s a charm for the South- Come Home for Christmas” against a subtle piano curtain provided by Rickie eastern Center for Contemporary Arts’ Crossroads series.

For all that hurricanes and oil spills can take away, tradition isn’t among them. At least not while institutions like Preservation Hall exists. After a series of commemorative shows at home, the famed jazz club’s house band is preparing to celebrate 50 years as the standard bearers for New Orleans

Ranking great guitarists is a fogey’s game these days, but Band of Horses’ Tyler Ramsey is deserving of consideration. On The Valley Wind, Ramsey doesn’t shoot for an utterly distinctive sound. Instead, he strips their arena sound down to its bare bones while still playing the hell out of it.

The Smiths: Complete — Limited-Edition Deluxe Box Set ($500; CD-only: $69, Rhino).

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Strange, but not all that surprising, that an aphorism straight from the quill of Lovecraft can so aptly be repurposed from the Elder Gods to the Metal Gods.

I´m not old, I’m original. I’m not old, I’m modern.” To hear Syl Johnson tell it, the sound he was creating in the ‘60s and ‘70s was the only sound. It was good. He knew it then and still does, that’s why he hasn’t changed a thing about it.

Spend enough time on the road and the experience can evoke any number of descriptors: It can be liberating, maturing or simply wearying. In the course of playing more than 200 dates in the past year and countless others since being founded in 2007, the members of Holy Ghost Tent Revival have known them all.

One needn’t be among the electronic music faithful to take away positive feelings toward Moogfest, Asheville’s yearly electronic mecca. Since migrating from a single-night event in New York City to what was arguably the cradle of electronic music innovation after being settled by Robert Moog, Moogfest has been as edifying as it is entertaining.

From his time in the Babys, who scored two Top 20 hits, through his solo material, which include the No. 1 hit “Missing You,” to his time fronting the supergroup Bad English, who also scored a No. 1 hit with “When I see you Smile,” John Waite has put his mark on the rock music landscape.

Playing the same album from top to bottom for so long might seem like a tedious task, but guitarist Joey Santiago says it has given him a new appreciation for it.

The music of the Beatles had a greater impact on societal views of music and appearance than anything until the advent of hip hop, which has made a similar inroads over the last 25 years. The lasting impression of the Beatles is now 40 years on — with thousands of bands still chasing the elusive magic that filled the works of the Fab Four.

On the surface, Moogfest is a celebration of all things wonderful and weird of Robert Moog’s amazing invention. The Moog Explorer, in its (relatively) compact size took touring musicians of his time down a dark alleyway of psychedelic sounds and possibilities, until they emerged on the other side with a completely new perspective on music.

I dont think we decide our own legacy, to be honest with you, Grammy-winning, Winston-Salem-born hip-hop producer 9th Wonder says as a foreword to his new album The Wonder Years (see this weeks Album Review). When you leave the game or leave this earth, people will decide your legacy for you.

TPM: As time went on we had a hankering to just write more original music. I guess there were more creative outlets in rock versus blues, but I guess everybody has to start off someplace. It was something I understood and was passionate about. Weve had some really neat opportunities to revisit those roots though.

Its showtime at the Weaver Academy for the Performing Arts. Its always showtime at Weaver dress rehearsals, in-class solos, impromptu jam sessions just today a few students in a freshman biology class will perform a song they wrote about DNA to the tune of Adeles Rolling in the Deep in front of the class.