As a way to take my career to the next level, I'm going to engage in a little multi-media (mm) storytelling over the next few weeks.
I’m going to start my intro to mm with a profile on a rising folk group out of the Raleigh area. When I think about the group, Thunder & Spice, I think about Malcolm Gladwell described how the club kids in the 1990s bought back the Hush Puppies brand. Intentional or not, they reminded a whole new generation of not-quite-as-young people that it’s cool to be retro.
In 2010, a quartet of folk singers is giving retro a whole new meaning. They are trying to revive the maritime and renaissance songs of centuries long ago. The recently formed Thunder & Spice, out of the Raleigh area, spend their available weekends at area Renaissance Faires where visitors are transported to the time of King Henry VIII, when women were Lady’s and Lass’ and curtseyed to a passerby and men were fine gentlemen hopefully of good standing with the King. But the music reflected a time of merriment on land—carousing in pubs, romancing a love (even if only for a night)--and of hard work on ships—turning the capstan or setting a sail.
Over the coming weeks, this blog will profile Thunder & Spice (Laura, Jerry, Elaina, and Jim), as they recall the days of old through song, balancing everyday work, life and family.
So if an underground movement of young club kids can make what’s old new again, Thunder & Spice should have an easy time of restoring a fading art form.
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