Pictures From The Charlotte Music Scene, 1996-2001
by Daniel Coston
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Charlotte, North Carolina was a different place in 1996. For all of its growth in population and recognition, the city’s art and culture were still hidden to many. Music venues were few in number, and scattered through areas that were often far away from downtown. There were many great musicians, young and old, but few were known beyond the county line. I started to write about what I was seeing, hearing and experiencing in 1995 for the Charlotte-based zine Tangents Magazine. After a few months, I began to feel that writing words upon words to describe all of these sounds wasn’t enough. I had just begun to take photographs, and I found that I could speak to what I was thinking and feeling in one photograph what I couldn’t verbalise in a thousand words. The camera became my new pen, if you will. The camera spoke to me, for me, and pushed me into documenting more. And 20 years later, that journey is still continuing, an unbroken line from the ideas the grew out of the photographs that you see here.
This collection of photographs are of musicians, friends and others that shaped the music scene of Charlotte during that time. Of musicians that came through Charlotte during that time, in venues big and small. People and ideas that I believed in, and still do. Some of these people and places are still with us, and some have gone on. But they still are here, in images, memories and emotions. Lastly, also here are the ideas of a photographer that was learning on the job, and trying to keep up with the possibilities in sight and sound that were all around him. They were early days in my career, as it turned out, but their impact continues on. The people, the visuals, the music. It all shines on.
-Daniel Coston
07Coston- Jamie Hoover, Spongetones, 1997
crop169BW- Violet Strange, 1998
Coston_25- Whie Octave, 1999
crop002a- Drive-By Trukers, 2001
crop0006 2- Peter Case, 2000
crop0010A- Rick Miller, Southern Culture On The Skids, 1999
Clayton-1996- Jeff Clayton, ANTiSEEN, 1997
crop0140- Tony James, It Could Be Nothing, New Years Eve, 1995
crop0142- Trans Am, 1999
crop007A- Buddy Guy, 1998
LesMoore1999_ Les Moore, 1999
LoFidelityAllStars- Lo Fidelity All Stars, 2000
Miles_dcoston7- Buddy Miles, 1999
Morphine- MarkSandman, Morphine, 1998
IntroPanel- Me, Halloween 1996, use on intro panel
Watt_dcoston- Mike Watt, 1999
YoungBloodHart- Alvin Youngblood Hart, 1999
crop0092A- Lenny Kravitz, 1998
Thurdsay2002- Thursday, 2001.
crop0088a- Steve Munsell, Ublisch, 1998
crop0091A- Gary Numan, 1998
crop0096AB- Syrup, 1999
crop100a- Dave Rhames, Draggin’ Flowers, 1998
crop101A- Benji Hughes, 1999
crop102A- Alex Mayhew, Ublisch, 1999
crop107A- Jeff Floyd, Kudzu Ganja, 1997
crop108a- John Morris, Come On Thunderchild, 1999
crop150a- Eric Lovell, 2001
Jucifer- Jucifer, 2000
crop153b- Memphis Quick 50, 2001
crop0036b- Mercury Dime, 1997
crop0014ab- Public Enemy, 1998
crop158a- Danielle Howle, 2001
crop159A- Phil Lee, 2000
crop0083- X-Periment, 1998
crop163A- Lou Ford, 1997
crop161a- Jerry Lee Lewis, 1997
FDQ13- Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13, 1998
MSCB- Chris Peigler, My So-Called Band, 1999
Ublisch- Chris Bean, Ublisch, 1998
crop0015A- Isaac Hayes, 1998
Superchunk- Superchunk, 1999
Wilco1998- Wilco, 1998
Avetts_2001 - Avett Brothers, 2001
AnimalBag- Animal Bag, 1996
crop0138- Drea Atkins, 1999
crop0139- Slowride, 2000
crop0145- Immortal Lee County KIllers, 2001
crop0147- Interstellars, 1999
crop0148- Poprocket, 2001
Avetts_2002- Avett Brothers, spring, 2002
Whiskeytown- Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, 1998
crop108B- Neal Harper, 1999
Smith_Elliott- Elliott Smith, 1999
BelmontPlayboys- Belmont Playboys, 1997
crop0043a- Jay Garrigan, Laburnum, 1998
crop0049A- Jay Garrigan, Laburnum, 1998
Jolene1998- Rodney Lanier, Jolene, 1998
Lynch_Mark- Mark Lynch, Lou Ford, 1999
MidnightFrolics- Midnight Frolics, 1999
Young_Clayton- Joe Young and Jeff Clayton, ANTiSEEN, 1997
crop0093B- Music lover, 1998
crop0093C- Jimmy King, Aqualads, 1998
crop0094a- DJ Smitty, 1998
crop0094B- Robert Childers, 1998
crop0994C- Crowd at Verizon Amphitheater, 1998
crop0096AA- Jeff Crooke, 1999
crop109B- Peralta, 1998
crop109C- Five Times Down, 1998
crop112a- David Childers, 1999
crop118A- Buzzoven, 1999
crop119a- Lenny Federal, 1998
crop120a- Wichita Caravan, 1999
crop124a- Justincase, 2000
crop129b- Latino Chrome, 1998
crop129a- Kris Krull, 1998
ManOrAstroman- Man Or Astroman, 1999
crop114A- Cast Iron Filter, 2000
crop0115A- Todd Busch, 1998
crop117a- Justin Faircloth, 1998
Jonathan Wilson, Hope Nicholls, Benji Hughes, 1996
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