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Jonathan Wilson Comes Home To North Carolina on 'Dixie Blur'

Album cover for Jonathan Wilson's 'Dixie Blur'
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Jonathan Wilson 'Dixie Blur'

North Carolina native Jonathan Wilson has come home on his new record Dixie Blur.  The long-time California resident was talking to Steve Earle at a session of the live-music radio program E-Town when Earle suggested he take his latest batch of songs to Nashville to record with live musicians.  On past efforts, Wilson often worked alone in his studio outside of Los Angeles, playing all the instruments himself.

"I started to imagine that classic Nashville session band and what that could be." Wilson told WUNC's Eric Hodge.

The new collection harks back to the sounds of the North Carolina mountains where Wilson grew up. It was co-produced by Wilco's Pat Sansone.
 
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Brian Burns is the Music Director for WUNC Music, WUNC's AAA music discovery station. He has been working within the local music scene for over a decade. On the weekends you might see him DJing at various spots around the Triangle, or digging through boxes of records. He's also the host of Future Shock on WUNC Music and a contributor to NPR Music. He graduated from UNC’s School of Information and Library Science with an MSLS in 2015.
Eric Hodge hosts WUNC’s broadcast of Morning Edition, and files reports for the North Carolina news segments of the broadcast. He started at the station in 2004 doing fill-in work on weekends and All Things Considered.
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