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Neil Cribbs Combines Folk, Blues, Jazz, Americana In Latest Album

Neil Cribbs is a blues and Americana guitarist based in Raleigh
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Neil Cribbs has had a full tour of North Carolina scenery in his life. He grew up in Wilmington and attended college at Appalachian State University.

He spent a few years working outside the state after college but returned home and now lives in Raleigh. Cribbs is a guitarist and singer with many musical influences including folk, blues and Americana.

Host Frank Stasio talks with Cribbs about his music and latest album: Built, Broken and Mended, which was inspired by the Great Depression. Cribbs plays tonight at Southern Rail in Carrboro at 7 p.m., tomorrow at The Whiskey in Wilmington at 8 p.m. and next Friday at the Pleasant City Wood-Fired Grill in Shelby at 8 p.m.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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