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Why Asheville, North Carolina Is the New Must-Visit Music City – Rolling Stone
In a recent article, Rolling Stone calls Asheville the new must-visit city, artists & fans are drawn by its reputation for musical spontaneity .
[After playing a surprise set of Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Nirvana covers for an intently listening, tightly packed crowd of music lovers, Grohl learned what so many other music fans have been discovering: Asheville is becoming one of the country's most vital music hubs.
"There's always been an underground scene of music, with a lot of great musicians, but only in the past 15 or 20 years has it risen to the level that it is now," says Haynes, the former Allman Brothers Band guitarist and unofficial mayor of the town nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. Haynes was raised there and watched its music community thrive over the years. "There is a whole kind of bohemian subculture thing going on that is really impressive and organic."]
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