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Sense Of Place North Carolina: Mitch Easter

From his Drive-In Studio to the Fidelitorium, the producer keeps pop alive in his home state.
Mitch Easter has been a significant presence in the North Carolina music scene for decades — beginning in 1980, when he opened his Drive-In Studio in his parents' garage in Winston-Salem. Easter is best known for his band Let's Active and as a producer for the first R.E.M. albums in the early '80s.

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