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The Explorers Club, Runaway Dorothy, Mac Leaphart 

When: Sat., Nov. 21 2009
Phone: (843) 571-0775
Price: $5
runawaydorothy.com
New York Americana quartet Runaway Dorothy betrays its North Carolina roots with every drawn-out vowel, the twangy scrape undercutting every riff. The band’s winsome melancholy works with no more than a subtle shift in tone. Like any number of young, scruffy, country-rock bands with a penchant for earnest songwriting and a debt to the rise of indie-pop in the early 2000s, Runaway Dorothy balances its songs between the rustic twang and the smooth pop of both its influences. But rather than confining itself to the comfortable (read: boring) Garden State sound, Runaway Dorothy focuses on its country shuffle and mixes in steel guitars, harmonica, and mandolin behind gauzy guitars. David Parnell’s falsetto and croon flow with either syrupy smoothness or moan a cracking drawl. The band can go in either direction, and in doing so forges its own. Runaway Dorothy shares the stage on Saturday with locals The Explorers Club, who emerge from relative dormancy with the pristine, sun-kissed Beach Boys pop. Local indie-country songwriter Mac Leaphart opens at 9 p.m. —Bryan Reed

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