Chatham County Line was spawned at Raleigh, NC’s infamous Blue House on the corner of Hillsborough and Boylan, when Dave met high-school friends Chandler Holt and John Teer. A long-standing crash pad for Raleigh bands like Corrosion of Conformity, the house had been the scene of sunrise jam sessions for years. The kind of place where a joint was always being passed and there was always a beer to be found in the back corner of the filthy fridge. The sort of house where it wasn’t clear who actually lived there and who was just hanging out fighting off a hangover, or working on the next one. Touring bands from Athens to D.C. knew about the house and its open door policy, exercising the standing invitation when the previous night’s draw wasn’t quite up to snuff down the street at The Brewery, or over in Chapel Hill at The Local 506. The ancient wooden floors showed the scuffs and scars of a decade of house parties and loose, drunken jam sessions. But that year, the soft pine planks would take the brunt of an especially enthusiastic flatpicker’s stomp. That picker’s name? Dave Wilson.