'Chatham Rabbits' Nods To Old Traditions With New Stories

By Anita Rao,

Published April 19, 2019 at 1:55 PM EDT

Austin McCombie and Sarah Osborne McCombie storytelling with strings and songs about North Carolina.

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Austin McCombie and Sarah Osborne McCombie combine storytelling with strings in their debut album 'All I Want From You.'

Courtesy of Kendall Atwater

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Austin McCombie and Sarah Osborne McCombie combine storytelling with strings in their debut album 'All I Want From You.'

Courtesy of Kendall Atwater

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Austin McCombie and Sarah Osborne McCombie combine storytelling with strings in their debut album 'All I Want From You.'

Courtesy of Kendall Atwater

Chatham County was once best known for its rabbits. The wild animals were so plentiful in the region at the turn of the 20th century that . This piece of forgotten North Carolina history is just one story of many that inspires the new folk duo Sarah McCombie and Austin McCombie.

The two, who perform together as , consider themselves just as much storytellers as they are musicians. Their debut album 鈥淎ll I Want From You鈥� features songs about the history and culture of North Carolina as well as guest appearances from North Carolina artists Andrew Marlin of , Libby Rodenbough of , Josh Oliver and more.

Chatham Rabbits joins host Frank Stasio in studio for conversation and live performance with Austin on guitar and vocals and Sarah on banjo and vocals.

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of "Embodied," a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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