That’s when they experienced what Hansen calls a “musical explosion”the realization of just how much, and how many types of, music existed. They moved to Boston and nabbed jobs working for the influential roots-music-oriented label Rounder Records. They played speedy songs that echoed the contents of their record collections of British punk outfits like the Buzzcocks. That’s when the music bug hit big-time: They formed a band. Long before Yep Roc existed, Glenn Dicker and Tor Hansen were just two junior high friends whose relationship reached critical mass in high school. “Some of those things,” admits Dicker, “they just kinda fall in your lap.” Two nights later, The Minus 5 will take the same stage. On Thursday night, Nick Lowe will be at the top of the bill. This weekend, Yep Roc will commemorate its 15-year anniversary with four nights of concerts showcasing some of its marquee artists. For the past decade-plus, he has released those records on Yep Roc, the little North Carolina label that started in 1997 with nothing but a few connections. No longer encumbered by the more emphatic commercial demands of a music career, he is in the rare position to make and issue the music he truly wants to hear. In his later years, he has become a countrypolitan éminence grise. Nick Lowe penned “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” and made a small fortune through that song’s inclusion on The Bodyguard soundtrack in 1992. Yep Roc, the label Dicker co-founded 15 years ago, has since released five albums by the Minus 5, along with two by McCaughey’s Young Fresh Fellowsand another 300 or so by a panoply of bands from around the world. So he’s like, ‘Would you be interested?’” “He called because he was a big Nick Lowe fan, and he thought it would be a cool thing to be on the label that Nick Lowe was on. The album was by The Minus 5, McCaughey’s sporadic side-project. “He basically was calling to say that he had a record he recorded with Wilco as a band that was gonna be called Down With Wilco,” remembers Dicker.
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