Grayson Currin

North Carolina

I don't tweet, really, so email me: [email protected]. Better yet, IG is @currincy. Music Writing @ NYT, P4K, MOJO, NPR, etc. Hiking Columnist @ Outside.

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Articles

American Hiking Trails Need Us More than Ever. Here's How to Help.

2 days ago | outsideonline.com | Grayson Currin

When Teresa Martinez was a mountain-bike racer, she suffered a recurring anxiety dream. Days before any competition, Martinez would envision herself woefully unprepared, five minutes before the start. First, her shoes would go missing, then her bike, then her water bottle, then her gloves. With her gear finally gathered, she still had to find the starting line. "And then, you wake up in a cold sweat," she told me recently.
Adam Duritz Is Just Happy to Be Anywhere

6 days ago | gq.com | Grayson Currin

Adam Duritz keeps his platinum plaques in his half-bathroom, just past the front door of his labyrinthine fifth-floor Manhattan condo. Actually, they are mostly gold records—at least one for each of the first four albums by Counting Crows, his band that, depending on your particular perspective, either helped define or destroy what was best about ’90s radio rock.
Adam Duritz Is Just Happy to Be Anywhere

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Grayson Currin

1 hour agoWhite Smoke Above The Vatican: A New Pope Elected By ConclaveAfter two days of contemplation and balloting, a new Pope has been elected. White smoke emanating from the Sistine Chapel chimney today to inform the …2 hours agoPearl won ‘The Masked Singer’ — and her identity makes the judges’ jaws dropThe wait is over! After months of decoding clues, fans of "The Masked Singer" finally know the identities of the final four contestants.
A 140-Mile Hike on the Appalachian Trail's Most Hurricane-Damaged Section

6 days ago | backpacker.com | Grayson Currin
What the Cult Singer Daniel Johnston Left Behind

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Grayson Currin |Eli Durst

In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces. In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces. Credit... Electric Lady Studios, in Greenwich Village, is a working music museum.
What the Cult Singer Daniel Johnston Left Behind

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Grayson Currin

'If You're Taking Ozzy's Money And Bad-Mouthing Him, You've Got To Pay': Sharon Osbourne On Why She Had Bruce Dickinson Pelted With Cans Of Baked Beans"I never told Ozzy, until the night that it happened, when it was the last show, and he just looked at me and goes, 'You're terrible.'"
Hurricane Helene Turned the Appalachian Trail Into a Highway Pile-Up. I Hiked it to Survey the Recovery.

2 weeks ago | backpacker.com | Grayson Currin

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. The good news is that you can now see the Nolichucky River sooner. Since my first thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2019, I've often thought about a cliff edge just above Erwin, Tenn., where the woods open to reveal the Nolichucky rushing from a gorge below.
Yvon Chouinard, fondateur de Patagonia, a cédé son entreprise pour sauver la planète

2 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.fr | Grayson Currin |Jonas Karlsson

Yvon Chouinard rit quand il tente de se rappeler le plus vieux vêtement en sa possession. « Presque tout ce que j’ai est vieux, remarque-t-il. J’utilise tout jusqu’au bout. » Le fondateur de Patagonia, 86 ans aujourd’hui, balaie du regard son bureau dans son ranch du Wyoming, puis montre les manches de sa chemise écossaise, usées jusqu’à la corde. « Ma vie a été plutôt simple. Je ne suis pas un adepte de la consommation.
Yvon Chouinard on why he gave away Patagonia to save the planet

2 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.com | Grayson Currin

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. Yvon Chouinard laughs when he tries to remember the oldest piece of gear he owns. Perhaps it’s a piton he forged in the late 1950s, after he taught himself blacksmithing and started Chouinard Equipment, Ltd.? Or maybe it’s one of the rugged rugby shirts his next company, Patagonia, made for climbing? Possibly the “fleece” jacket prototype Patagonia built using toilet-seat-cover fabric, which has since become an outdoors icon?
Walt McClements: On a Painted Ocean

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Grayson Currin

Walt McClements has never been just an accordion player. Even when the North Carolina native was bouncing around a series of ragtag New Orleans bands, like a hardscrabble early version of Hurray for the Riff Raff or the defiantly scattershot Dark Dark Dark, McClements was more than a guy squeezing the bellows and pressing the keys. He could sing, play piano, and add some trumpet, too, a little like Garth Hudson in search of his best setting.