A month before Carrboro musician Dex Romweber’s death, Lapin Blue owner Mike Benson watched him perform one last time.
“He started sitting down, very quiet,” Benson recalled. “Then [the playing] got progressively louder and angrier. He was pacing up and down, barking at the walls and bar chairs, howling. People who wandered in for a casual drink had no idea what they were witnessing. I told them, ‘That’s Dexter Romweber. Enjoy.’”
Dexter Romweber would have been 60 years old this summer. As a musician, Romweber’s fusion of rockabilly, blues, and punk was paired with a legendary stage presence that earned him cult status among the underground music scene…