Flava in Winston Salem and the Hood on Lock in Greensboro
It was another grey and rainy day, and after checking out of the hotel, I drove down to a breakfast cafe near the hospitals, and …
Record Stores
Brecht in Chapel Hill and Offbeat in Durham
The morning was grey and overcast, and it had been raining, but it wasn’t at the time I checked out of the hotel. There was …
From Charleston to Chapel Hill
A grey and overcast day, although the sun began to come out later in the morning. The hotel staff had recommended a breakfast place called …
Across South Carolina from Augusta to Charleston
It was a cool but sunny day. I went to breakfast at the Veranda Room of the Partridge Inn, a historic restored hotel near the …
Kicking It With E-Rokk in Tha Rock
My music-producing friend E-Rokk was down from Kalamazoo, Michigan visiting his children in North Little Rock, Arkansas, so I decided to drive over there to …
From Augusta to the Coast With Storms
I had read online about a breakfast place in Evans called the Sunrise Cafe, so I arranged to meet the rapper Pimpzilla there, and we …
A Day of Record Promotion in Dallas
I drove up to Buzzbrews at Central Expressway and Fitzhugh for breakfast, and then headed over to CD Source on Greenville Avenue, where I found …
The Freddie Jones Quartet at the Brooklyn Jazz Cafe, Dallas
The Cupboard in West Memphis had started selling breakfast, so I stopped there on my way out of town, and then I continued west on …
Blessing the Instruments at Tipitina’s
It had rained all night, but the rain had ended, so I rode the riverfront streetcar down to the French Market, and then walked over …
A Quarter Interlude, New Orleans
I got a fairly late start out of Memphis, heading for the Cutting Edge Music Business Conference in New Orleans, and I stopped for a …