One of the key figures on the North Carolina jangle pop and new wave scene, Peter Holsapple is perhaps best known to his fans as singer, guitarist, and songwriter with the dB's, but he's also worked with a wide range of other acts, been a sideman with R.E.M. and Hootie & the Blowfish, and was a member of the roots rock supergroup the Continental Drifters.
Holsapple was born Greenwich, CT on February 19, 1956, and moved with his family to Winston-Salem, NC when he was six. Holsapple began playing guitar when he was eight, and in 1970 he enrolled at the Exeter Academy in New H...