Author David Menconi & musical artist Hero Jr .

Music Critic, journalist and novelist, David Menconi joins Twisted South Radio this week to talk about his career, life and current book “Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of Whiskeytown”.
David Menconi has been the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer's music critic since 1991. Before that, he spent a few years at the Boulder (CO) Daily Camera; and before that, he earned a masters in journalism from the University of Texas in Austin, where he wrote his thesis on the History of the Armadillo World Headquarters and also wrote a column for the Daily Texan.

Hero Jr.: Remember when rock'n'roll seemed to have it all? Passion, power, chemistry… and timeless songs that people could relate to? Hero Jr. does. And their new full-length debut Backup Plan is the perfect document to prove it.