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Though he is most closely associated with his native North Carolina and, more recently, New Orleans, for a few months in 1978, a 22-year-old Peter Holsapple lived in Memphis. "I worked at a screen printing place, printing T-shirts for the first anniversary of Elvis Presley's death," recalls Holsapple. "It was the year of the firemen and policemen strike, so there was a lot of National Guard around. It was a very weird time."
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Holsapple joined a loose roots-rock supergroup called the Continental Drifters, which included ex-members of the Dream Syndicate, the Bangles and the Cowsills. The Drifters relocated to New Orleans, where Holsapple married bandmate Susan Cowsill in 1992. The couple divorced in 2000 after having one daughter, and the Drifters broke up in 2003 after releasing five critically acclaimed albums. (Another member of the Drifters, guitarist Robert Mache, is a New Orleans refugee who has recently resettled in Memphis; he will join Holsapple at Otherlands tonight.)
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