Mark Kemp
As seen in:
The New York Times,
Bandcamp Daily,
Rolling Stone,
The Charlotte Observer,
Greensboro News & Record,
San Francisco Weekly,
Our State,
Creative Loafing Charlotte,
Acoustic Guitar
Covers:
North Carolina, music, culture, outdoors
Mark Kemp’s Biography
Mark Kemp is the senior editor at Our State magazine in North Carolina. A graduate of East Carolina University, he has served as music editor of Rolling Stone and vice president of music editorial for MTV Networks. In 1997 he received a Grammy nomination for his liner notes to the CD Farewells & Fantasies, a retrospective of music by the 1960s protest singer Phil Ochs. His book Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South was published by Free Press/Simon & Schuster in 2004 and issued in soft cover by the University of Georgia Press in 2006.