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2019 Piedmont Laureate David Menconi was music critic at the Raleigh News & Observer for 28 years. He has also written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, The New York Times, SPIN and a host of other publications that no longer exist. He co-edits the American Music Series for University of Texas Press and has written three books himself. A fourth, about the history of music in North Carolina, is to be published by University of North Carolina Press in 2020.

^{David's photo by Teresa Moore}