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WBM october 2011
Possum C reek Bluegrass Band never
set out to become bluegrass musicians
when they first picked up their instruments.
T he band’s mandolin player,
Jones Smith, was originally in a punk
band. It wasn’t until he entered college
that he first started playing bluegrass.
T he music genre offered something
different than what he had experienced
musically before — culture.
“Southern culture was looked down
upon for awhile and some people try to
shake it,” Smith explains. “T here is not
a lot to point to and say, ‘hey this is my
culture.’ I think people can hear bluegrass
and say, ‘I can be accepted into this
and feel proud to be who I am.’”
It is this connection to the past that
appeals to a wide audience. From good
ole’ boys to suburban teenagers, bluegrass
has a tightening grip as a staple
music genre in the southeast.
“I found a jug band album and
couldn’t listen to anything else,”
musician K ellie E verett explained.
Fascinated by an increasingly obscure
branch of bluegrass, she began playing
the banjo; however, she enjoys playing
a washboard modified with tin objects
that she found in the trash. A t the
Satellite jam, she is the sole percussionist,
save for a guest spoon player.
“It is just an infectious type of
music,” explains Bob Stroud, another
musician participating in the weekly
bluegrass sessions. “O nce you get
hooked on it, it is hard not to play.”
A side from the bluegrass jam at
Satellite, there are other pockets of
pickers throughout the C ape Fear area.
For example, H inson hosts his own
jam, D erfest, every T hursday night at
his home in K ure Beach. Sitting on
the front lawn of the H inson house-
Clockwise from top left: Wrightsville
Beach residents (left to right) Hank
Carter, his dad Keith jam with Carlton
Clark on a regular basis and sometimes
play gigs under the name Masonboro
Bottom Boys. Jones Smith picks his
banjo. Derwin Hinson (far right) hosts
Derfest every Thursday night at his
home in Kure Beach.