About It’s Carrboro
Billy and I are roomates. We live right behind the Carrboro fire department which is right next to town hall and The Farmers Market. To us Chapel Hil is “the city” and we try to limit our time in that “southern part of heaven.” We were joking around about this one day and - as we often do - made up some lyrics. Last summer (2005) Billy made a very successful “Song-a-Day podcast” wherein he wrote, recorded and published on his blog a new song every day for a hundred days. Quite a feat. I would pitch in occasionally on a song here or there, but Billy was the real genius behind that project. This put us in the habit of thinking about a subject in terms of a song, so turning this little conversation about the good things of Carrboro into a ditty was natural. Once we came up with the “droppin’ plenty” line, we knew the song had to be made. I already had some music I was working on that we could rap on top of. The song was finished the 11th of March, and that day Billy went on WCOM to talk about his custom song-writing business. He got them to play it and to our delight the song was requested to be played again! We put the song on the internet and since then it has become kind of a hit. At least in Carrboro.
The video was filmed and edited by the grace of Jason Meeks. A thousand thanks to Catherine Devine for helping cut through the red tape.
Comments
April 30, 2006
Ken Cannon said:
Hey this is Ken Cannon (lead singer of Feeding the Fire). I meet you at the cradle lastnight. I hope the video shoot was awesome. Sorry i couldn’t make it. I had to pull myself together just to get to work. I dig the song by the way. 100 songs in 100 days is incredible.
If you are free Sunday may 7th please come to the Wetlands. Our Cd release show is happening. I mean Happenin’!!
Doors are at 8 with the first band going on just before 9pm
Take care -KEN
May 12, 2006
kouehouassazo hémilembolo alain dieudonné said:
i want to participate to all festivals of rap, to have your calender of the coming festivals.
May 21, 2006
charlie said:
I am addicted to the Beatles and Jimi and CSN and so forth and so on. I am not quite ready to clear my music shelves (yes, I have shelves, not folders on my computer) for all your stuff, but “it’s carrboro” is pretty damned good. want to produce a video about all that is wrong with this country and what we need to do to fix it? music is a medium for many things, change being one.
rock on.
June 29, 2006
Monica Doss said:
I sent your video to Richard Florida, the sociologist who authored ” the rise of the creative class” explaining to him that carrboro was evil twin of Cary, where he’s spent time with the SAS crowd. He was … well here’s his response.
Monica–. Thank you ever so much for sending this to me. In a word it is amazing. It is exactly the message our communities need to send, not to just to each other but to the world. I am going to send it to my friends and colleagues. Thank you again, Richard
July 10, 2006
Cecelia said:
I love it