tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29068575360051056382024-03-05T03:08:49.646-08:00Beaches, Bands & BarsDedicated to the people and places that make "Life's A Beach" more than just bumper sticker wisdom - whether that beach is at your back door or, like Margaritaville, just in your mind. From beach bars and boat drinks to Parrot Heads and Trop Rockers...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-4729302485625677922014-11-06T08:05:00.000-08:002014-11-06T08:05:50.981-08:00Meeting of the Minds 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Every year on the first week of November, thousands of Parrot Heads and Trop Rock music fans "flock" to Key West, Florida for the annual Jimmy Buffett fan club convention called "Meeting Of The Minds". Four (or five, or six, or more - depending on your stamina) days of sun and fun in the bars and watering holes around Key West. Like many of our friends, Georgia and I like to take the long way down - flying in to Ft. Lauderdale, renting a car and driving down US 1 until we get to the end of the road. Along the way, we all have our favorite stops for fish sandwiches, conch fritters, and a variety of frozen drinks and cold beer. Here is a random picture diary of this year's trip. If you were there, we hope you reminisce along with us. if you weren't - or have never been - maybe this will coerce you into planning a trip in 2015...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Jim Morris at Hog's Breath Saloon street party, Key West</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Listening to a Les Kerr cd is like getting a hug from an old
friend. <span> </span>Warm, familiar - and energizing. <span></span>There’s something about Les’ music that
brings back happy memories, even though the tunes you’re listening to are brand
new. Les’s latest cd, <b>The Americana Boogie</b>, is a great example – with the mash
up of musical styles on the title track, the shuffling “Comfort Music”, and “Mississippi
Sunshine” – <span></span><span></span>a driving around with the top
down kind of tune. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jambo Joe Bones</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Buccaneers, Ballads & Bellyflops”.</b>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like
Don Middlebrook, Swim Skinny, and The Boat Drunks, Jambo proves once again you
don’t have to live at the beach to act like you do. Hailing from the very
un-tropical climes of Wisconsin, Jambo Joe nevertheless finds plenty of warm
weather inspiration for his music. He also holds the distinction of having the
best mustache in all of Trop Rock.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jambo’s
latest collection of beach worthy tunes kicks off with one of three songs on
the cd that involve airplanes. ”Air Sunshine” is a bouncy number about an
airline that doesn’t exist but would get a ton of Parrot Head business if it
did. With hammocks and bar stools for seats, bikini-clad stewardesses, and
Isaac from the Love Boat onboard to pour the libations…where can I buy a
ticket? At the core, it’s a song about a subject many of us can relate to –
escaping. In Jambo’s case, from “The coldest damn day of the winter” to “a
tropical place”. Where, exactly, doesn’t really matter. It’s all in your head, after
all. Speaking of in your head, “Mermaids Are For Real” makes a case for the
existence of the finny females. At least, that’s Jambo’s story and he’s
stickin’ to it. It wouldn’t be a proper Trop Rock cd without a drinking song or
two. Check. “Margarita Bomb” is a cautionary tale that rocks, co-written by and
featuring Bones’ frequent musical partner in crime, Amy M. </span></span></div>
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It’s an appropriate soundtrack for taking stock of a wild weekend: “You can’t
bellyflop on a table top, or swim skinny while you’re baked…” You may have
heard a live version of it on my BeachFrontRadio show, “Trop Rockin’ Live”. I
mentioned there are three airplane songs on “Buccaneers, Ballads & Bellyflops”.
“The Plane Left Without Me” is a familiar tale of having one (or three) too
many and “accidentally” missing the last plane out. And track six, “Dairy Air” happily
reps Wisconsin while showcasing Jambo’s often salty sense of humor. And who
doesn’t like polka music and double entendres? The nautical bow on Jambo’s
latest cd is “Living Like A Pirate”, a sea faring sing-along that inspires rum
drinking and once again features Amy M singing lines like “Scallawags are after
me booty”. It’s also another song I have played a live version of on TRL… </span></span></div>
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perch at the Reef Resort in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Cayman" title="Grand Cayman"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Grand Cayman</span></a><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">George Nowak</span>, aka, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Barefoot Man</b> </span></span></span></span>is a local
legend for his raucous and rowdy shows, not to mention his penchant for getting
women to want his autograph in places where the sun don’t usually shine. His
bio claims that he has written 2,000 songs and recorded 500 of them. Swerving
from Calypso and Reggae to Country – and a little bit of everything in between
-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the nine originals and three covers on
his latest release, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sand Dollars</b>”
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favorites include: “Sailing on Moku”, a nautical tune that rides a Calypso
beat. The pedal steel infused “I’ll Never Leave Nippers Again”, a song that
wouldn’t sound out of place on a Hank Snow cd. And the Hawaiian-y title track,
“Sand Dollar”. </span></span></div>
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offers a tropical solution to the daily grind, and “Dumb Ass” puts the Barefoot
spin on the old Kenny Rogers classic, “Lucille”</span></span></div>
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“not for kids” material…Tracks like “The Pussycat Song” and “Beaver Island”
always get the crowd fired up. “Sand Dollars” includes the equally salty,
“Should Have Used A Condom”. And his cover of the Great Mighty Sparrow’s “Congo
Man” throws plenty of double entendres, along with a couple of not so willing
females, into the cook pot.</span></span></div>
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other two cds I received this month came via Drop Box instead of the mail. The
only down side to that delivery method is that I don’t get the cd sleeve with
liner notes, and, often, lyrics… But, I do have the music and that’s the best
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disc is one of the most pleasantly surprising albums I’ve heard in a while from
a relative newcomer. It’s also great to hear another female voice on the Trop
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the Barefoot Man, Dani plies a variety of musical genres – from the Zydeco
inspired title track to the Blues/Country ballad, “Walking In The Rain In New
Orleans”. “Summer Songs”</span> <span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>throws some ska-horns and Hawaiian slack-key
guitar in to the Gumbo for a great top down driving song. ”Gone Native” sounds
like Bonnie Raitt at the beach. “Last Day On The Island” is a smoky, down tempo
number that conjurs up images of candle lit tables in an after-hours Caribbean
bar. And “Whiskey Kisses” gets the full old-school country treatment from veteran
producer, Kevin Johnston. </span></span></div>
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her bio says she’s been playing guitar and singing for several decades, it’s
only been in the last four or five years that she has taken her talent out on
the road. Twice nominated for Trop Rock Music Association Awards, Dani’s first
cd, featuring songs like “Tropi-Gal” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
“Meet Me On The Boardwalk”, introduced her to the Trop Rock world. “Songs Of
Love…” should make her a full-sail force to be reckoned with. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hailing
from Richmond, Virginia, singer/songwriter Dave McKenney stays busy playing all
along the eastern Seaboard. He has also made appearances at Parrot Head
phriendly events like Stars On The Water and Meeting Of The Minds. Another
relative newcomer to the Trop Rock world, Dave’s debut disc features mostly originals
from what I can tell (again, not having the cd sleeve means I don’t have
songwriting credits). The one track I’m sure is a cover is John Frinzi’s
“Bouyancy”. Of the originals, several tracks stand out – including “The Inlet”,
which features some nice acoustic finger picking, the bouncy country of “Florida
Kind Of Sunday”, the jazzy “Martin’s View”, and the appropriately titled “Carolina
Laid Back Point Of View”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maryland
boaters and trop rock fans will also recognize the subject of “The Big Owl”. If
I was going to judge by the music and lyrics of “Four Hour Lunch Break”,
McKenney seems to believe in “No worries, no hurries”…and that’s a worldview
that works for me. Add this cd to the collection, pour a glass of good Rum and
throw it on next time you’re sitting on your deck watching the sun go down. </span></span></div>
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times and have been to – even hosted – lots of House Concerts. But, I have
never seen Jim Morris at a House concert. It’s on my Bucket List! Jim is one of
those rare singer/songwriters – like Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>able to populate his songs with larger than
life characters. Whether it’s the serendipitous lover and her teacher and
banker friends in “Thursday Afternoon at the Conch House Lounge” or the
Tropical Man in “Laid Back and Key Wasted” - they may not ACTUALLY exist, but
they sure seem like they could – or should. I’d love to spend some quality time
listening to Jim talk about the stories behind his songs, find out how much is
truth with “names changed to protect the guilty” and how much is poetic
license.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jim continues the tradition on his latest
cd, “The Man Who Offered the Moon”. Take track number nine, for example - “Long
Money” - where Jim gets booked to play a private party at a beachfront mansion
where the guests are “doctors and lawyers and assorted egomaniacs”. The women
in attendance are “surgically blessed and all those parts they purchased seem
to fit together well”. The host of the shindig, referred to only as the “Big
Dog”, is a “smiley fella” who has been “working hard turning paradise into
condos”. It’s a five and a half minute short film set to music. You can imagine
the “beautiful lady” when she walks in to the party, picture the manicured lawn
“littered with bottles of bourbon and vodka and gin”. It’s the sign of a great
songwriter when you can “see” the song, as well as hear it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In “Party Dress”, the scene is another
party, this one “right there on the bayou, down around New Orleans”. The host
of this soiree is a fella named “Dickie Bones” who likes to drink and dance and
who “greets you when you come to call”. Beer and Margaritas flow, and a band
plays while “Frankie boils the crawfish”. Once again, it’s such a vivid picture
you’ll find yourself wishing you had been there! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Another reason Jim Morris sits among the
upper echelon of Trop Rock artists is his often understated sense of humor. I
say understated because he doesn’t resort to tired clichés – doesn’t hit you
over the head with the punch line. Take “Your Girlfriend Says Hello”: The hero
in the song quits the job that was making him unhappy, tells the boss “the
dream you were selling just didn’t work out” and runs off to enjoy sand and sea
with a new lady friend - who is, well the title says it all. The twist is that,
throughout the song she is referred to as “your girlfriend”, until the last
thirty seconds of the song when that changes to “MY girlfriend”. Then there is
“Tonight I Came Here To Drink”, where the singer tells a woman at the bar in a
skimpy dress and great legs to “stop pointing them at me”, then observes “I see
you’re from Brazil, or at least you appear to be”. That doesn’t mean Morris
can’t be blunt when he wants to. He also says “Came Here to Drink”, “It’s hard
to concentrate when I’m staring at your ass”. Or take “Mr. Right”. I don’t
think anyone is going to accuse him of subtlety when the object of the singer’s
affection is asked “Why don’t you do me?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Other stand out tracks include the nostalgic
“One Layer of Clothes”, with Morris and a college buddy jumping into a sports
car and hitting the road in search of “ a world we’d never seen, things we’d
never done”. Who can’t relate to their younger days when money wasn’t important
and time was irrelevant? “The End Of Time” follows the popular Trop Rock scenario
of a guy who ditches the corporate world to find what really makes him happy,
including “sunny skies, salty air” and a “girl who says she loves me, fine
Jamaican Rum”. It includes one of my favorite Jim Morris lines of all time:
“I’ll be happy until the end of time, but I hope it never comes.” And, finally,
remember the old Disco nugget “It’s Raining Men”? Personally, I like Jim’s weather
report a whole lot better. “Raining Rum” tells the story of a guitar player who
“grew up in Kentucky on a rutabaga farm”, whose “mom died in a bar fight, and
“dad was Baptist preacher ‘till the cops found all the dope”. You’ll just have
to listen to the song to find out, as the late Paul Harvey would say, the rest
of the story. It’s another one of those colorful narratives that makes you want
to find out how much is based on reality and how much is pure fiction. One of
the most upbeat songs on the cd, it’s destined to be a Jim Morris concert
favorite.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Some additional details: Trop Rock heart
throb John Patti is responsible for the steel drums and percussion on “The Man
Who Offered The Moon” and twelve of the thirteen tunes are Morris originals –
the only cover being Rodney Crowell’s “Song For Life”. </span></span></div>
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before feel free to skip forward a few lines. Back about seven or eight years
ago, I was listening to Radio Margaritaville when I heard –<span> </span>with a nod to Monty Python – “something
completely different”. The lyrics had to do with the beach, but it wasn’t done
by Jimmy Buffett. The RM website didn’t tell me who it was and I listened for
the dj to announce the song but he never did. The same thing happened the next
half dozen or so times I heard it – but each time I would stop whatever I was
doing and listen, transfixed by the lyrics about living by blue water –
something I have had the opportunity to do a couple of times, only to get
yanked back to reality way before I felt it was time. I long to do it again
someday and I wore the words of the song like a dream coat. Eventually, I found
out the song was called “Lucky Enough” by Scott Kirby. I have had the good
fortune to see Scott perform several times – interviewed him for my blog, Beaches,
Bands & Bars. Not only do I credit him (and Radio Margaritaville) for
opening my eyes and ears to the world of Trop Rock, but Scott remains one of my
favorite Trop Rock performers – and that song, “Lucky Enough”, still sits on my
list of favorite songs of all time... “I’ll raise my glass, you can kiss my old
ass” indeed.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">Fast forward to 2013 and Scott’s latest cd, <b>Sol Searching</b>. It’s his sixth studio outing
– seventh overall, counting his live “Night On The Beach” cd. And, once again,
it’s full of reflections on the turning of one’s calendar pages and the desire
to find that place in your life that makes YOU happy, where you’re “Lucky
Enough”. But, unlike some artists who tend to focus on the partying side of our
annual trip around the sun – the “bright and shiny” - Scott’s songs tend
towards the wistful and introspective. But, not in a negative sense. I made the
observation to Scott once that, at first listen his lyrics may sound “glass
half empty”, he is really an optimist. He seemed surprised by that but thought
some more and finally said, “I guess you’re right!”. It’s the difference
between writing about the rainbow and writing about the guy holding the empty
pot at the other end, waiting for it to get filled with Gold. And, if only a
few coins fall in it’s ok, as long as you’re near someone you love – and blue
water. The opening track is a great example, “Turning Of The Tide”. Featuring a
melancholy harmonica and gentle piano, it includes lines like “Days go by and
how time flies…” and “Baby we were born to be in a shanty down by the sea…cause
folks like us were meant to live in small houses”. But, like many of Scott’s
songs, it isn’t about giving up, it’s about acceptance, and finding fulfillment
in those things that make you smile. In “Turning”, once the singer accepts that
“the big new place, you see, it was never meant to be” he lays his head down to
get a good night’s sleep.</span></span></span></div>
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being the Spanish word for Sun).<span> </span>Cut
from similar cloth, musically, with a saxophone substituting for harmonica,
“Sol Searching” immediately makes me want to pack up the car and drive
somewhere whenever I hear it - Anywhere there are boats bobbing on the water. “Pick
up the pieces, pick up the pace…when all you want to do is feel the sun on your
face” and “When you wake stark mad in the middle of the night…southwind
whispers, baby, book that flight”. If I ever get a boat, I want to name it Sol
Searching.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">Although Scott spends a lot of time in Key West and the bar
in which he’s a co-owner, the Smokin’ Tuna, he splits his year between there
and his “home port” in New England. Several songs on Sol Searching pay homage
to those roots, including track three, “Any Old Town In New England”. A clap
along rocker, the focus is on Beantown but places like Nantucket Sound and
Narragansett Bay also get name dropped. ”Vineyard” (the only track on the cd
not written by Scott) and the closing number, “Old Beach House” also take the
listener to the Northeastern US – the latter an especially poignant song about
respecting where you come from that could have just as easily been recorded by
the late, great John Denver. “Life is not a perfect thing, it’s tattered and
it’s torn, like the curtains in this old beach house the wooden steps so worn.
But, when it’s all been said and done we do the best we can and pray for one
more perfect day…”</span></span></span></div>
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describe Scott Kirby’s music but he is no sour puss. As I said earlier, his
songs brim with an understated optimism - and more than a little humor. “Guys
Like Us”, for instance, explores the chemistry between crazy women and the
fellas who fall for them, “You Better Believe Her!” is about – well, crazy
women (“If she tells you she’s bat shit crazy you better believe her”) and
“Whiskey” is a funky, bluesy love letter to that golden spirit. <span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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sound. While some Trop Rockers opt for the lo-fi approach, letting electronics
substitute for real musicians (generally due to limited budget), Kirby cds, Sol
Searching included, are full-on professional productions, with strings, brass
and lots of top notch guests. Peter Mayer lends backing vocals and the All-Star
rhythm section of Russ Kunkel and Leland Sklar (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Bob Dylan</span></a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young" title="Neil Young"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Neil Young</span></a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Nicks" title="Stevie Nicks"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Stevie Nicks</span></a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_King" title="Carole King"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Carole King</span></a>,
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Browne" title="Jackson Browne"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jackson
Browne</span></a>, Linda Ronstadt) lend a hand on “Guys Like Us”. </span></span></span></div>
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Now, excuse me while I pour a glass of rum, settle in to my comfy chair… and do
a little “Sol Searching”. For more on Scott and his music, www.scottkirby.com</span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Matt Hoggatt, Hotter Than Fishgrease<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You’ve heard the story of
Cinderella… After years of working her fingers to the bone, she catches the eye
of Prince Charming and gets invited to the Ball? Move the story to the Deep
South, make Cinderella a Cinder-fella and Prince Charming the King of the
Parrot Heads and you’ve got the saga of Matt Hoggatt! A member of the Army
National Guard and a policeman (Detective Sergeant when he handed in his badge
just earlier this year), Matt got caught by the performing bug in 2005 and –
acoustic guitar in tow – starting honing his craft in the bars and watering
holes around his hometown of Gautier, Mississippi. It didn’t take long for
Matt’s songwriting skills and homespun humor to start gaining him some
accolades – including the American Songwriter Magazine Lyric Contest Award in
2010 and, again, in 2012. That last year, his winning entry was a song titled
“Dear Jimmy Buffett”. Not only did the tune catch the attention of the judges
at the American Songwriter Magazine contest, it also became a bit of a Youtube
sensation, eventually making it to the ear of the song’s subject himself. Next
thing Matt knew, he was joining Jimmy onstage at a show in Birmingham, Alabama,
followed by a record deal on Jimmy’s Mailboat Records. His debut cd, titled
“Hotter Than Fishgrease” was recorded live at various locations, including
Jimmy’s sister Lucy’s place, Lulu’s at Homeport.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">I mentioned Matt’s sense
of humor and his cd is chock full of it, starting with the opening track,
“Bullet in His Earnhardt”. It’s the story of what happens when a relationship
goes awry and one party looks to cause the most psychological damage possible
by going after the other’s most prized possession – in this case, “the picture
of his fantasy”, autographed by the legendary Stock car driver. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Dale Earnhardt and Jimmy
Buffett are not the only celebrities Hoggatt name checks on “Fishgrease”. From
doublewides and Nascar on the opening track, Hoggatt moves to Gulf Coast<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>weather on track two with “The Ballad of Jim
Cantore”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Matt sees it, if you see
Cantore come to town, you know it’s time to head to higher ground. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Pretty women - and fried
Brim - get the Hoggatt treatment on the next number, the title track “Hotter
Than Fishgrease”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Serving up heaven on
a paper plate, when suppertime comes I can hardly wait. Something ‘bout her
recipe gets me hotter’n fishgrease.” “Kiss My Past” takes a skewed look at
modern technology with lines like “Remember when… Twitter was the sound of a
bunch of birds, Blackberries went in a pie not a purse..?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">And then there’s the
centerpiece of the cd, the track that got him invited to share the stage with
the man from Fairhope. Matt’s open letter to Jimmy – “Dear Jimmy Buffett” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- is the autobiographical tale of a struggling
Southern songwriter and Buffet fan longing for his idol’s life, with his
“airplanes and restaurant chains”, sung over a “Living and Dying in ¾ Time”
groove. It also proved prophetic, with the line “I could sure use a record deal
this year.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Bender”, about enlisting the help of that particular kitchen apparatus to
“chase your troubles goodbye with a little Patron” and the truth-telling
“Really Drinking Beer”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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introduced by his new boss live on stage at a show in Tallahassee, Florida,
where he performs his signature song followed by Jimmy’s response, “Dear Matt
Hoggatt”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">I had the chance to hang
with Matt recently, at the Atlanta Parrot Head tailgate before the Jimmy
Buffett show in Atlanta. I found him to be just as funny, humble, and
self-deprecating in person as he is on his debut cd. And that just gives me
another reason to wish him a long and prosperous career… now that he has his
record deal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Sauce Boss, Live At The Green Parrot<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">This cd isn’t brand
spankin’ new, but it’s new to me – arriving in the mail just as I sat down to
write this month’s reviews. Recorded live in Key West it’s the Boss in all his
rip-roaring glory in front of an appreciative audience, at the famous bar where
he holds court each year during Meeting Of The Minds. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">I<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">f you’re not familiar
with Bill Wharton, aka the “Sauce Boss”, he hails from the Panhandle area of
Florida. Legend (and his website) tell the story of discovering an old National
Steel guitar in his front yard one day back in the 1970’s. One of the first
songs he wrote on it, “Let The Big Dog Eat”, was featured in the 1986 film,
“Something Wild”, and his fame among Parrot Heads was sealed when Jimmy Buffett
name dropped him in his song, “I Will Play For Gumbo”, from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Beach House On The Moon</b> (“</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The sauce boss
does his cookin' on the stage, stirrin' and a singing for his nightly wage”).
Nowadays, Bill travels throughout the South, laying down his Country Boogie and
Blues while simultaneously mixing up a pot of his signature Gumbo</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> on stage. It’s his Gumbo – which he happily shares
with his audience after each performance - that has gotten him exposure on tv
channels like CNN and the Food Network.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">Unlike many live albums
that feature long-winded song introductions, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sauce Boss Live at The Green Parrot</b> cuts right to the chase,
putting the emphasis where it should be – on the music, especially his
fire-breathing slide guitar work. Stand out cuts include the opening track,
“Killer Tone”, “Smuggler’s Cove” – with some of the hottest guitar picking on
the cd, the rocking shuffle of “Lucky Charm” and the album closer, “Cathead
Biscuit Gospel”. He also tears into an extended version of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Let The Big Dog Eat” that must have had the
walls sweating at the Green Parrot and shares some of his culinary secrets on
“Gumbo Recipe”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">John Friday, Coastal Cowboy</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">John Friday</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> is a
self–described "Tropical Balladeer and Displaced Pirate" who
originally hails from Maryland. The singer/songwriter's eclectic background
includes a stint as a crabber on the Chesapeake Bay, as well as assorted
attempts at college, studying subjects from biology to business. After an
injury ended his thirteen year Army career, Friday settled in the Naples area
of Florida and started writing songs and performing in the local bars. In 2009,
he released his first full length cd, "Coastal Dreamin'", which included
the rollicking ditties “Ain’t Missing a Thing” and “Rita’s Going Wild”. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That’s the intro to an
interview I did with John, aka “The Teddy Bear of Trop Rock”, a couple years
back. Since then, I have had a number
of chances to hear John play live – including a memorable House Concert in
Atlanta where he played…and played…and played…for over four hours, mixing in
his impressive collection of originals with some creative cover songs. That
event, hosted by a group I co-founded called the Atlanta Trop Rock Alliance,
was also the first place I heard some of the tunes that would wind up on his
latest cd, “Coastal Cowboy” – also a collection of mostly originals with a
couple of carefully chosen covers..</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The cd kicks off with the
rocking party starter, “Beachfront” where John describes a typical Parrot Head
pot luck: “You bring the tequila, I’ll bring the salt and limes”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next track, “Home”, brims with optimism
and positive vibes – over a shuffling guitar track and 60’s Soul organ fills.
It’s hard to hold a frowny face when you have a church choir singing, “So
happy” over and over! As someone who can’t wait to ditch the city life for a
Salty Piece of Land, the whistful “Coastal Dreamin’”, track three on the cd,
has become the soundtrack to my life – as well as a source of inspiration. Like
the song says, “…these coastal dreams are all I need to get me through the day”.</span></span></span></div>
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include the title track, which jumbles together images of Cowboys and Sailboats
(sort of a Trop Rock version of Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead Or Alive”) and “Kisses
With My Coffee”, a sweet and sentimental love song with a super catchy chorus. Friday’s
twisted sense of humor takes a front seat in the half kids’ ditty/half barroom
sing along, “Nils The Rasta Viking”. “He took his shield and made a steel drum
out of it…he’s Nils the Rasta Viking, drinking rum and aquavit”. I mentioned
covers earlier – Michael Franti & Spearhead’s 2009 Summer hit, “Say Hey (I
Love You)” gets the Teddy Bear treatment, and John pays tribute to one of his
musical inspirations, Dan Fogelberg, with a beautiful ballad titled “When
You’re Not Near Me”, a cut from Fogelberg’s 2003 cd, “Full Circle”.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Yankee Jack, Key West Conch-troversial</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sitting up close to hear
Yankee Jack in a bar <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is like being in
the front row at a Gallagher show – eventually, you’re gonna get hit with
something. Only, in Jack’s case, it’s not sledgehammered fruit – it’s humor,
mostly of the “not politically correct” variety. Tourists, foreigners, gays,
fat people, skinny people, women with large breasts – breasts in general. They
all get lovingly attended to (or skewered) at a Yankee Jack show. Typical Jack
Joke (paraphrased): “They’re outlawing mini skirts on Duval Street. The problem
is the testicles hanging below the hemline”. Bad-dum-bum. If you’ve been to Key
West, chances are you’ve heard Yankee Jack. He holds court most weekdays at the
Bull and Whistle on Duval<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and – given
the open air layout of the first-floor Bull – the laughter and music is usually
heard spilling out into the street.</span></span></span></div>
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Jack’s latest cd of original material, is a conglomeration of “straight” material
with plenty of his over the top musical comedy. The opening track, a tribute to
his adopted home town (originally from new England, Jack moved to Key West in
1989) “Cayo Hueso”, mixes the two. One minute he’s singing about sleeping on
the beach under the stars, the next he’s admiring a woman with “a great
caboose”. “Same Sex Sunday” is not about spending part of the weekend hanging
out with your own gender, like the title might imply. Instead, it’s an ode to
stuck in a rut marriages (“What we used to do like stars of porn is scheduled
now for Sunday morn”). “Jesus Was a Democrat” will probably tweak those on the
Right but, then again, Conservative has never been a word associated with Key
West. “The Last Mudslide” is a musical shout out to Jack’s main employer that
floats a familiar theme<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– a Key West
visitor that isn’t quite ready to head back home (“I’m strapped in a plane and
I wish I were back – drinking Mudslides on the bar at the Bull”).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">More of the larger than
life Yankee Jack’s humor appears on “If It Flirts, Floats Or Flies, Rent It”
(“A woman gives you nookie, but she might wind up to look like Snookie”) and
the title track, another tribute to his adopted island home, “Very Conch-troversial”
(“The Southernmost point is my new home, I come from a land they call bitch and
moan, and half this island’s getting stoned”). But, just when you think you’ve
got Jack figured out as a jokester and humorist, he slides comfortably into a
soft piano ballad like “The Sea”, or a catchy Trop rock toast to a seaside
town, like “Casco Bay”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For a taste of Jack’s live
show, check out his cd, “The Best Of Yankee Jack Live in Key West”. Just don’t
sit too close to the speakers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>http://yankeejack.com/
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">Southern Drawl Band "Against The Grain"</span></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;">I
first heard about the Southern Drawl Band from my friend, Shurl Galliher-Gates.
Shurl lives in the Tampa area and runs a music management business, where she
works with a number of artists – including the Southern Drawl Band. I was
talking to her about last year’s Meeting Of The Minds and the possibility of
doing some recording for my internet radio show, “Trop Rockin’ Live” (heard
Thursdays and Sundays on BeachFrontRadio.com). Shurl suggested I check out SDB
and put me in touch with lead singer and front man, Mike Nash (aka “Nash
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this point, let me tell you a little about my background. I’m currently a radio
dj in Atlanta – and can also be heard weekday afternoons on stations in Mobile,
Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. But, for a number of years, I was in record
promotion. That is, I worked for some major record labels and my job was to try
to get radio stations to play the records – singles – released by the artists
we represented. I was also the Music Editor for an industry trade magazine, and,
before moving to Atlanta, worked for radio stations from Charlotte to
Philadelphia. Over the years I have worked with groups from Yes and Motley
Crue, to Blondie and the Go Gos and met stars like David Bowie, Billy Joel, Rod
Stewart, Robert Plant, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones – and Jimmy
Buffett. I mention all this for a couple of reasons. I am used to hearing hit
records. And I have also dealt with a lot of a-holes. The latter makes it that
much more of a pleasant surprise when I encounter someone in the music business
who is not an a-hole, someone who is a genuinely nice person. One of the
reasons I like “Trop Rock” is because so many of the people performing it are
just that, genuinely nice people. Which brings me back to “Nash Mike”. Following
Shurl’s advice, I dropped Mike an email, told him about my upcoming trip to Key
West and plans to record for Trop Rockin’ Live. Within a day I got an
enthusiastic email back, saying “Sure you can record us!”. Mike and I exchanged
friendly emails over the next couple of weeks, then met during Meeting of the
Minds, where I found him to be just as nice in person as he was over the
internet. I also had a chance to hear the band live at the Smokin’ Tuna Saloon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;">All
that leads me to the point where Steve Kesegich called and asked if I would be
interested in reviewing cds for Crab Island Mambo. Among the first batch of
discs Steve sent me to check out was the most recent release from the Southern
Drawl Band, “Against The Grain”. Having met “Nash Mike” and seen the band live,
I was anxious to hear what they sounded like on record (yeah, I’m old enough to
remember – and still call music – records). So, I popped the disc in the player
on a recent road trip. As I said earlier, I have spent years in the music
business – and listened to thousands of albums (there I go showing my age
again). I can usually tell whether a record is going to be good or not within
the first three tracks. This record – ok, cd – isn’t just good. It’s DAMN good.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #20124d;">First
up is the title track, “Against The Grain”, a swampy Southern Rocker –Lynyrd
Skynyrd meets Jason Aldean. Mike’s voice has just the right touch of gravel and
grit, backed by bluesy harp and a bluegrass banjo. If these guys were on a
major record label, this song would already be on the radio. From there the cd
takes a Trop Rock turn, with “Another Day In Paradise”. With an island feel and
lyrics about sun and surf, it would sound right at home on a Zac Brown Band
record. Next up is “The Backroads”, an achingly pretty number about escaping to
someplace where time passes while sitting in a front porch swing and “shellin’
beans”. There you are. I told you I could tell if a cd was going to be good or
not after the first three tracks, and these three are as good as I’ve heard
from any album – independent OR major release – in some time. This doesn’t
sound like a band that’s big in Knoxville, Tennesee (their hometown). This
sounds like a band that is ready to be big EVERYWHERE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are plenty more good tracks on “Against The Grain”, from the raucous, rocking –
and hilarious – “Party Trained” (“She’s the life of the party till you get her
started on double tequila shots and twisted Bacardi”) and “My Johnson (“When I
pull up the girls all grin, they love to watch me put it in”), to the nostalgic
“When Kids Played Outside (“Our Playstation was an old swing set”) and even a Phil
Collins-y piano ballad, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Gone”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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little back ground on the group: according to their bio, SDB was formed in 2011
by Mike and drummer Larry Dunsmore. They added percussionist Melanie Howe (who,
I must say, won a lot of admirers - mostly male - at Meeting of the Minds) and
bassist Daniel in 2012, the same year they recorded and released “Against The
Grain”. More recently, they have released a five song ep titled “Another Day In
Paradise” that includes that song and four more island-inspired tracks,
including one – “Floriday” – recorded with fellow Tennessean Taul Paul. The ep
was released largely to quiet folks who kept saying, “These guys are good, but
are they TROP ROCK?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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SDB will be on the road throughout 2013, including a number of dates throughout
Florida. More info – as well as a free download of their take on “Rocky Top” –
can be found on their website, http://southerndrawlbandofficial.com/ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this habit that I’m growing to hate, his almost continuous status updates ‘bout
his life in the Keys and all that he’s going through…When it’s all said and
done, man you know we wanna be like you. I wanna be Howie….” - Paul Roush, “I
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Who WOULDN’T
want to be Howard Livingston? A closet full of shorts and flips flops, fishing
and playing Trop Rock…with the blue water and sand of the Florida Keys as the
backdrop to your daily activities? It’s a Parrot Head’s dream! But, there’s
only one “Howie” and if we can’t BE him, the only choice remaining is to live
vicariously through him, via his Facebook page…and his cds.</span></span></span></span></div>
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latest release is called “Six Pack and A Tan” and, like of all his earlier cds,
it’s a lyrical and music tour of the Conch Republic, a tropical party on a
round silver disc. <span> </span>“Six Pack…” opens
with the title track, the story of a retired military man who makes “cold beer
and a fishing pole his new battle plan.”. Ditching it all and heading for
somewhere warm and sunny is a recurring theme in Howard’s music and, why not?
It’s what he did many years ago, leaving the corporate life to be a guitar
picker in the Keys. </span></span></span></span></div>
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“Magic In Key West”, an ode to the Conch Republic that name drops Jimmy Buffett
and Jerry Jeff Walker. One interesting thing about Howie’s music is that,
although he calls South Florida home, many of his tunes sound like they were
written South of the Border – with Tijuana brass and Mariachi rhythms that
would make Mark Mulligan proud. </span></span></span></span></div>
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is another in a long line of ‘leaving the business world behind and heading for
the beach’ songs that owes their origin to Buffett classics like “The Weather
is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful”. In Howard’s version, the heroine is headed
to a convention in Miami when she gets the bug, rents a convertible and heads
down US1. Fueled by a Pina Colada in Islamorada, somewhere over the Seven Mile
bridge she loses her business suit, changes into “a little bikini” and never
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recurring them in Howard Livingston’s music - and a key ingredient for a
majority of all trop rock, for that matter - is alcohol and the partaking of
it. Boat Drinks, Margaritas, Rum, ice cold Cervezas. It’s not much of a Parrot
Head Party without ‘em . “Five Lines in A Tervis Tumbler” is a reggaefied
tribute to those wonderful hot/cold drink recepticles –<span> </span>a Trop Rockin’ version of “Red Solo Cup”,
featuring Howard’s favorite beverage, Coconut rum.</span></span></span></span></div>
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puns are nothing new to Trop Rock (see John Reno’s “Lobster But Never
Flounder”) and Howard incorporates a number of them in the boogie woogie “Something
Fishy’s Going On”.<span> </span>Funny song, but all I
can say is, if I ever walk into my house and find “candles were lit, lights were
low, Marvin Gaye on the stereo” and find my wife “laying in our bed wearing a
leopard skin thong”? I’m not questioning the motives!</span></span></span></span></div>
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and a Tan” also features one of the oddest Trop Rock songs I have to say I’ve
ever heard. Riding a “Puff the Magic Dragon” beat, “Peeing On A Coconut Tree”
includes lines like “we were peeing on a Sycamore tree, just my daddy and me”.
I’ve GOT to ask Howard about that one the next time I see him…</span></span></span></span></div>
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of “Six Pack and a Tan” is about throwing responsibilities to the wind and
firing up the blender (or relieving yourself on vegetation). Howard
intersperses the party tunes with some self reflection and songs tailor-made
for swinging in a hammock.<span> </span>“Another
Sunset” rocks gently on a Mexican breeze, “Slow” is a romantic ballad with an
appropriate title, and “Younger Every Day” is a mellow number about not fearing
the passing the time. Need a song to help you take a mental vacation the next
time it’s cold and cloudy? Cue up “Rainy Day in Paradise”. Somehow, even bad
weather seems imminently more bearable when the rain drops are falling into the
ocean.<span> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Wrapping up
the cd is an upbeat musical snapshot of life in Livingston Land: “Out On Sandy
Key”.<span> </span>Friends, food, music, booze and
boats – all under the South Florida sun. <span> </span>Like Paul Roush’s song says, I wanna be Howie!</span></span></span></span></div>
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his name for years but only recently became familiar with Eric’s music. On the
way down to last year’s Meeting Of The Minds, my wife and I stopped by to see
him play a set at a roadside tiki bar in Islamorada. Since then, I have included
several of his tunes on my show, Trop Rockin’ Live, and can now, happily,
answer “Yes!” when someone comes up to me at one of my dj gigs to ask, “Do you
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">His latest
cd is a well-blended mix of Trop Rock and good old American R&R with a
swing through the Lonestar State. Much of the material focuses on chasing your
dreams and living life on your own terms, especially if those terms include
beaches, boats and bars. The main character in “Ave De Paso” is an “old man
chasing the wind”. “Jimmy’s Drive In” finds the hero leaving behind West Texas
for a different kind of sun and sand, and in “Way Down In Mexico”, Eric invites
anyone who wants to join him to “follow me…we’ll drink Pacificos, we’ll be
free…down by the sea”. “Life Like A Novel” and the title track continue the
theme of escaping and “searching for a better state of mind”. From
name-dropping tumbleweed towns like Odessa to mentions of rattlesnakes and
crossing the border, Texas also looms large on “Time To Fly”, musically and
lyrically… The Tex-Mex party is in full swing on “Bad Tequila”, where Eric
teaches us a lesson about the difference between rock gut and the good stuff.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">I spent some time – many years ago – living in Corpus
Christi, not far from Jerry Diaz’s home on the South Texas Gulf coast. I loved
the lifestyle, sailboats, wind surfing and Margaritas (why I left is a long
story but involves thinking I needed to get somewhere less laid back if I
wanted to develop a career. I know, stupid, right? Now, all I can think about
is getting back to the beach!), While I was there, I also fell in love with Tex
Mex music; Freddy Fender, the Texas Tornadoes, Joe King Carrasco. Which is just
another reason why I love Jerry and Hannah’s Reef so much. They mix plenty of
south of the border into their Trop Rock for something they appropriately call
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Mireles on steel drums and acoustic guitar, Chuck Willingham on drums, Bobby
Summers on Bass, Bud Byram on percussion, and Heli Martin on guitars. If there
is a theme to Jerry Diaz and Hannah’s Reef’s latest cd, “On a Beach In Mexico”,
which I guess can be said about most Trop Rock, it is escape… Songs like the
title track, “Senoritaville”, and “Down To the Islands” are all about packing
your bags and heading to somewhere with sand, sun and drinks with salted rims.
In “Down To The islands”, the singer is “stuck somewhere in Arkansas” and says,
“I’m a restless soul in a watering hole, drinking rum just to get away” then offers
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">The desire to leave what ails you behind and head to “a place
to go when you’ve had your fill of honey do’s and honey don’ts” continues in
“Welcome to Senoritaville” where the singer is down on his luck, “broker than
hell” and the IRS is “moving in any day”. Then the answer hits him, “a flight
down to Laredo was just what I needed”. And in “On a Beach In Mexico”, the
singer dreams of <span> </span>“tropical islands and places
I wanna be” while suffering under a “Cold Nebraska sky”. <span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">But the songs on “On a Beach In Mexico” aren’t simply about wanting
to swap a bad situation for a better one, they’re also about the flip side: thoroughly
enjoying a really good situation: “I’ve got something money can’t buy, a good
lovin’ woman standing by my side” (“I’ve Got Love”), as well as making the best
of the hand you’re dealt: <span> </span>“Just give me
ten to twenty, and I’ll feel just fine. The wind at my back and a bottle of
wine” (“Ten To Twenty”) and “If <span> </span>there’s
beer in the cooler, I’ll be alright” (“Beer In The Cooler”). <span> </span>Wrapping up the cd is a staple of Hannah’s
Reef live shows, “We’ll Get By” – which features a guest appearance by John
Reno. Think of it as a Margarita glass half full kind of tune, with lines like,
<span> </span>“Well it takes me nearly all I’ve got, <span> </span>just to make ends meet”and<span> </span>“But that’s ok, come what may, we’ll get by”.
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</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">If </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">you want to make music for a living, writing and recording
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harder at it than California’s <b>Loren
Davidson</b>. Anytime I post something on Facebook asking artists to submit
information for my blog<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>or music for my
BeachFrontRadio show, “Trop Rockin’ Live”, Loren is always one of the first
people to respond. The title of latest cd, “Of All the Rum Joints” and one of
the songs on the cd, “Looking at You” are both nods to my favorite movie of all
time, Casablanca. Produced, engineered and mixed by popular Trop Pock producer,
Kevin Johnson at Orca Sound in Maryland, “Of All the Rum Joints” features
eleven original songs written by Loren, plus two covers – The Doors’ “Moonlight
Drive” and “Sunshine on My Shoulder” from John Denver. The originals are some
of Loren’s best ever – “Voodoo Lounge” has a bluesy, back alley New Orleans vibe,
“Fly Away” wouldn’t sound out of place on a Zac Brown Band cd, and “One More
Rum” is a clap along tune about the trials and tribulations of being a live
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-55580550887630376052013-03-04T09:30:00.001-08:002013-03-04T09:43:35.725-08:00Meet "Mr. & Mrs. Margaritaville"!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><strong>Since I started this blog, I have
written about beaches... Spotlighted some bars... And interviewed a number of
bands. But, I have never combined all three into one article. Until now...
Chris Hambrook is one of the main drink slingers at Margaritaville in Key West.
Having been a patron of Margaritaville Key West many times, I thought it would
be great to spend a few minutes with Chris and find out what it’s like to be a
BAR tender...that sees some great BANDS... in a BEACH town!</strong></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong><span style="color: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></span></span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Nice to meet you,
Chris! How long have you been bartending – and where did you get started? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">I have been bartending for over 20
years now. I started at a place called Armadillos on the city dock in Annapolis
MD.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What made you want to
get into bartending?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been in the restaurant
business since I could reach a sink or a stove - worn every hat from bottom to the top. I got into bartending because it's the
most fun position in the house. I love being the master of ceremonies. I also
love trying to wow my guests and, for me, the bar is the most fun place to do that from.</span>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">What brought you to
Key West?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I moved to Key West 20 years ago, two weeks after seeing my first Jimmy Buffett
concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion. The island life call to me so I took the
leap and moved here with $300 bucks in my pocket. I was a commercial fisherman for
the first year. Then drove a cab here for 7 years. Then I worked at Turtle
Kraal and, later, I managed Bagatelle restaurant. I have been at Margaritaville
for 6 years now.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">I would think working
at Margaritaville would be a much sought after gig. How did you land the job? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">I filled out the application and
went through the hiring process, just like anyone else. I did know Lou Gammel, the bar manager, for many years
prior to my working there but nobody got past the general manager, Ray Massiero,
without going through the process. I also had to wait two weeks for them to think
it over because my wife had just started there a month earlier.</span> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Let's talk about that....Your
wife, Patricija, also works there...how did you guys meet?</strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My wife and I met at the Stick and
Stein bar here in Key West where she was bartending – I came in to watch Monday
Night Football. We went out on a date on a Wednesday night and were married in
Key West courthouse that Friday afternoon. 19 years later, here we are proudly
taking care of Jimmy's guests and enjoying this great Key West life. All
because I was inspired to come here after seeing one Jimmy Buffett concert!</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How many days/nights
a week do you work?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I work Wednesday though Sunday.
Patricija works Thursday through Monday night. Tuesday is our one day off a
week together.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, w</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">hat it is like working in a place like Margaritaville with your wife?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A typical work day for my wife and I is treating everyday Jimmy Buffett fan and every guest that comes through that door like the gold they are. We like to wow them every chance we get. We like to share stories of our life on the island here with them – but not bragging, in a humble, grateful way. We never take any guest, or any of this, for granted. We know we have this whole great life because of what Jimmy Buffett created and it's all his fans old and new that keep this thing going. For Parrotheads, Margaritaville Key West is their church because it's the original. For us it's the Vatican and we are the Popes – and that's why we wear the funny hats! </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What do you and your
wife like to do when you’re not working?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When were not working we like to
support our other local bartenders. I play drums. My wife works on art
projects.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I have heard it’s
very expensive for the average working person to live in Key West – is that true? You live in Stock Island,
right?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes it is very expensive to live
here in the Keys, but that's like winning the lottery and bitching about the taxes.
You gotta stay focused and be frugal and keep your nose to the grindstone to
keep the dream going. Yes we do live on the tourist mecca known as Stock Island!
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What’s the best thing
about living in the Keys and working in Key West? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The best thing about living in the
keys for me is that for the most part everyone gets along down here. The Keys
has a “do what you want to do. Be what you want to be. Don't mess with me and I
won't mess with you” attitude and I am definitely with that. Also, you can't
beat the great weather and beautiful views year round</span>. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And on the flipside,
what’s the WORST thing about living in the Keys and working in Key West?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">The worst thing about living in the
Keys is seeing on television restaurants that you know you can't get to without
driving 150 miles! Also, when testosterone ridden, angry, mean people visit the
island here and spread a mean vibe…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As long as we’re
doing “Best and Worst”, what are the best and worst things about working with
your wife?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The best thing about working with my
wife is I get to work and be with my best friend all the time. For me, that is
a dream come true. We both come from families that worked and operated
restaurants together all their lives also. So it's in our DNA. The worst thing
about working with my wife is she's better than me. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Do you have a
favorite drink to make, a specialty?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do have a signature drink that I love to
make. I call it Liquid Sunshine. For me it represents the island when it's a crystal
clear, beautiful sunny day and then it
rains just a little bit.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cruzan banana rum<br />
Cruzan raspberry rum<br />
Cruzan mango rum<br />
Cruzan citrus rum<br />
Orange juice and pineapple juice<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shake vigorously and pour into glass over ice<br />
Squeeze and drop a lime wedge to represent the island.<br />
Smack a mint leaf to break out the flavor and place in glass to represent the
palm trees.<br />
Place an orange and cherry garnish to represent the sunsets.<br />
Then float with 151 rum to represent the power of the Sunshine!!</span></span></span>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What’s your personal favorite
thing on the menu at Margaritaville?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have several favorites. The
seafood mac and cheese entree. Lava Lava shrimp and also the Jamaica You Make a
Mistakea wings apps. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Working at
Margaritaville, I bet you guys get to see lots of fun and crazy things..</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tell me some of the wildest/funniest/craziest.... You said Capt. Tony
renewed your wedding vows at Margaritaville?</b> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Yes! The greatest thing ever to happen
to us at Margaritaville was “Captain Tony” Terracino renewing our wedding vows
at table 1 on the floor of the the original Margaritaville. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the wildest things we saw was
during a fantasy fest about 6 years ago. A cruise ship full of nudists came
into the restaurant and packed the dance floor. A bunch of old naked dancing
happy people. That kind of thing still happens from time to time.. it’s known
to get pretty wild on the island here during Fantasy Fest! It is also wild to
see all the different Jimmy Buffett inspired tattoos people put on their
bodies. I have a manatee and dolphin on my left arm and I have sharks on my
right arm. So yes, I have fins to the left and fins to the right.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You also get to see
lots of great music... Who are some of your favorite bands that have played at
Margaritaville?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some of my favorite bands that play
Margaritaville are The Boat Drunks, the Baja Brothers, Michael Armstrong and
the Key West Band, The Nace Brothers, the Niki Barr Band , Scott Kirby and
Country Dave Edmundson, The Sauce Boss, John Patti and John Frinzy, Parrot
Beach, Jonathan Birchfield, and my own band SPUNJWURTHI. Then, of course, you get
the big boys doing special guest appearances or even entire shows.My all time
favorite was seeing Jimmy Buffet there three years ago when he premiered the
song “We Got a Lot to Drink About”. We even got to see Jimmy Buffet do an
entire show in 1998 with the band Iko Iko. Which, by the way, was the first time
we got to meet Jimmy Buffet. Kenny Chesney and Mac MacAnally did an entire
show just over a month ago here at Margaritavile. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Peter Mayer has given us a whole show as well. Nadira Shakoor sits in with The
Boat Drunks from time to time. Doyle Grisham has played the stage. Ilo Ferriera has played a few times. So many great performances.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You said earlier you
play the drums. Do you get to play much at Margaritaville? </span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I do play drums. Margaritaville and the bands often allow me to sit in with them, which is truly - from the bottom of my heart - an honor to be able to do. I love when I'm bartending and the bands invite me to the stage and I come from behind the bar and get behind the drum set and rock the house and then come back behind the bar. What an amazing feeling knowing I too get to play that world famous stage.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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like people to know about you and your wife, Margaritaville or Key West…any "Tips for
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we wear the moniker of “Mr. and Mrs. Margaritaville” with pride and all the
love in our hearts. When you come in we will strive to give each and every one
of you a once in a lifetime experience here at Jimmy Buffets original Margaritaville
in Key West Florida. My tips for the tourists: Go out and see all these
wonderful musicians, buy their CDs, support the music and let's keep this thing
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue;">I spent some time – many years ago – living in Corpus
Christi, not far from Jerry Diaz’s home on the South Texas Gulf coast. I loved
the lifestyle, sailboats, wind surfing and Margaritas (why I left is a long
story but involves thinking I needed to get somewhere less laid back if I
wanted to develop a career. I know, stupid, right? Now, all I can think about
is getting back to the beach!), While I was there, I also fell in love with Tex
Mex music; Freddy Fender, the Texas Tornadoes, Joe King Carrasco. Which is just
another reason why I love Jerry and Hannah’s Reef so much. They mix plenty of
south of the border into their Trop Rock for something they appropriately call
“Texas Beach Music”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue;">Named after a local Texas fishing spot, Hannah’s Reef<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is Jerry on lead vocals and guitar, Mark
Mireles on steel drums and acoustic guitar, Chuck Willingham on drums, Bobby
Summers on Bass, Bud Byram on percussion, and Heli Martin on guitars. If there
is a theme to <strong>Jerry Diaz and Hannah’s Reef</strong>’s latest cd, “On a Beach In Mexico”,
which I guess can be said about most Trop Rock, it is escape… Songs like the
title track, “Senoritaville”, and “Down To the Islands” are all about packing
your bags and heading to somewhere with sand, sun and drinks with salted rims.
In “Down To The islands”, the singer is “stuck somewhere in Arkansas” and says,
“I’m a restless soul in a watering hole, drinking rum just to get away” then offers
“When my ship comes in, I’m gonna jump right in. I can’t wait to get outta
here”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue;">The desire to leave what ails you behind and head to “a place
to go when you’ve had your fill of honey do’s and honey don’ts” continues in
“Welcome to Senoritaville” where the singer is down on his luck, “broker than
hell” and the IRS is “moving in any day”. Then the answer hits him, “a flight
down to Laredo was just what I needed”. And in “On a Beach In Mexico”, the
singer dreams of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“tropical islands and places
I wanna be” while suffering under a “Cold Nebraska sky”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue;">But the songs on “On a Beach In Mexico” aren’t simply about wanting
to swap a bad situation for a better one, they’re also about the flip side: thoroughly
enjoying a really good situation: “I’ve got something money can’t buy, a good
lovin’ woman standing by my side” (“I’ve Got Love”), as well as making the best
of the hand you’re dealt: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Just give me
ten to twenty, and I’ll feel just fine. The wind at my back and a bottle of
wine” (“Ten To Twenty”) and “If <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there’s
beer in the cooler, I’ll be alright” (“Beer In The Cooler”). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrapping up the cd is a staple of Hannah’s
Reef live shows, “We’ll Get By” – which features a guest appearance by <strong>John
Reno</strong>. Think of it as a Margarita glass half-full kind of tune, with lines like,
“Well it takes me nearly all I’ve got, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just to make ends meet”and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But that’s ok, come what may, we’ll get by”.
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is just PART of the process. You also need to PROMOTE. And few people work
harder at it than California’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Loren
Davidson</b>. Anytime I post something on Facebook asking artists to submit
information for my blog, “Beaches, Bands & Bars” or music for my
BeachFrontRadio show, “Trop Rockin’ Live”, Loren is always one of the first
people to respond. The title of latest cd, “Of All the Rum Joints” and one of
the songs on the cd, “Looking at You” are both nods to my favorite movie of all
time, Casablanca. Produced, engineered and mixed by popular Trop Pock producer,
Kevin Johnson at Orca Sound in Maryland, “Of All the Rum Joints” features
eleven original songs written by Loren, plus two covers – The Doors’ “Moonlight
Drive” and “Sunshine on My Shoulder” from John Denver. The originals are some
of Loren’s best ever – “Voodoo Lounge” has a bluesy, back alley New Orleans vibe,
“Fly Away” wouldn’t sound out of place on a Zac Brown Band cd, and “One More
Rum” is a clap along tune about the trials and tribulations of being a live
performer in a room full of party people who want to buy you drinks all night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Rockin’ Live”, which airs every Thursday and Sunday night on
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I grew up in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:city></st1:place> and my stepfather owned the biggest music store<br />in the city so I was exposed to a myriad of musical styles and genres at<br />an early age. My first instrument was trumpet and I listened to Al Hirt<br />and Maynard Ferguson. Subsequently, I picked up the acoustic guitar and I<br />was enthralled with Jim Croce, James Taylor, David Gates, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>, and The<br />Eagles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My first guitar was a 1972, Cherry red, Gibson ES-335. My mother bought<br />it for me. I just remember that it was a beautiful axe. Unfortunately,<br />it was stolen that same summer. These days, the corral includes three<br /><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Taylors</st1:place></st1:city> (314ce, 412ce, GS Mini), an Applause AA21 (the boat guitar) and my<br />newest acquisition, a Martin SWOMGT-E. Additionally, I’m babysitting my<br />friend’s 1960 Gibson ES-330.<br /><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the past few years, it has been well over six months of the year. <br />However, I’m scaling it back… a little.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Quite frankly, I’m a homebody when I’m not touring. I rarely stray far<br />from my porch except to take the sailboat (Contessa 26) out on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Mobile</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype></st1:place>,<br />which is one of my favorite pastimes. We love to entertain friends and<br />family with good food and beverage…. and of course, music.<br /><br /><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>What about bars in your backyard; When you’re not touring and playing,<br />what are your favorite home town hang outs - where would we find John Reno<br />on a day off and what would he be drinking?</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I like to have a few cold ones at Fly Creek Café. It’s at the marina less<br />than a mile from my home and roughly 150 steps from the boat slip where we<br />keep the Contessa. Insofar as my beverage choice, it depends on the<br />weather. In the colder months, I like Lazy Magnolia Brewery’s Southern<br />Pecan on tap or an IPA and in warm weather, I prefer something lighter. <br />Then again, when we’re home…usually manning the grill, we delve into<br />various merlots, cabs and pinots.<br /><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Actually, I seem to recall that Kelly (McGuire) had a great line that referred to<br />the audience as “ticketed, seated and listening.” He certainly nailed it.<br />I love playing house concerts and I do quite a few of them. In fact,<br />it’s my favorite venue to perform aside from theaters.<br /><br /><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Do you have a couple of your songs that stand out for any particular reasons? </b></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Let’s see… "Labrador Logic" because I loved and miss my dog. Also so many<br />other dog lovers have told me how much this song means to them.<br /><br />"My Little O’Day" because it captured a perfect day on the water.<br /><br />"Hopeless Romantics" because it’s introspective.<br /><br />"Big Ol’ Johnson" and "Blame It On The Jello Sho"t because they make so many<br />people laugh.<br /><br /><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>You've got something very exciting coming in the New Year. You and your friend, guitarist Eric Ellis, will be performing the music of Jim Croce<span class="yshortcuts"><span id="lw_1355365163_0"></span></span>. </b></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Is it a "tribute show", with you guys
actually </b></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>sounding like Jim Croce - or will they hear John Reno doing some of his favorite Croce songs?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Well, to be clear, we're not impersonators. We're approaching this the<br />
way that Jim performed the majority of his concerts...as a duo. Our goal<br />
is to accurately and faithfully recreate the sound of Jim and his<br />
side-man, Maury Muehleisen, live in concert.<br />
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how/when you first time you heard his music - and what is it about his<br />
music that inspires you, that made you want to do a tribute?</b><br />
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I remember having several of his eight-track tapes (does that give you a<br />
clue as to the year?) and listening to them incessantly. Jim had a way a<br />
painting a picture with his lyrics that few other songwriters did, or<br />
still do for that matter, and the combination of his and Maury's guitar<br />
work is truly unique. I've heard a plethora of guys playing Jim's music,<br />
however, very few actually do justice to the guitar work.<br />
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Well, again, that would be the guitar parts. Some of the tunes are<br />
relatively easy strumming patterns and chords. Others, however, require a<br />
note-for-note fingerstyle and lead that cannot be deviated from which are<br />
not the easiest when coupled with the vocal parts.<br />
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Eric is a great guy and a fabulous player and we work very well together. <br />
I was very fortunate that he was at a place in his career where he felt<br />
that he needed a change. Timing is everything.<br />
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We've got several theater and corporate dates booked for 2013 in addition<br />
to quite a few house concerts.This will be the direction that we will<br />
pursue. <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can check out JimCroceTribute.com and Facebook.com/JimCroceTribute for more info and dates.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Absolutely! Most notably, I recently married a beautiful woman who has<br />shown me how to love again. She is my soul mate, my confidant and my best<br />friend. Her name is Donna and you’ll find her, more often than not, right<br />by my side.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Goombas have an offer you can't refuse. The Young Rebel Goombas, that is. Long Island (aka "Strong Island"), New York's favorite Trop Rockers are getting ready to work on a new album, their first in five years. But, as anyone who has ever picked up an instrument with the intention of recording some music knows, studio time = money. And, like a lot of bands, while the Goombas have an over abundance of talent, energy, and new musical ideas, that doesn't always translate to flush bank accounts. So, the Goombas have hatched an interesting, "outside the box" idea for raising some moolah to help cover the costs of their upcoming project: They're reaching out to their fans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using the latest web technology and a healthy dose of social networking, YRG have enlisted the help of a site called Kickstarter, which allows them to accept "pledges" - from $1 to $5000 or more. Their goal is to reach $25,000 in pledges from friends and fans by June 7, 2012. In exchange for financial support, donors can receive everything from autographed postcards, t-shirts, and advance copies of the cd, to your name printed in the cd liner notes - even a private concert from members of the band.</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is the link:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Young Rebel Goombas hope to have the as-yet-untitled album finished by November, just in time for the next Meeting Of The Minds. Be a part of Trop Rock history - and become an honorary Goomba today! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.trollstudios.com/youngrebelgoombas/index.html">http://www.trollstudios.com/youngrebelgoombas/index.html</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-42695957598877234592012-04-23T08:00:00.005-07:002012-04-23T16:48:51.142-07:00Dennis McCaughey: His feet may be in Pennsylvania, but he's got a Tropical Soul.<div class="tripane message content showqr" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1335189565301270"><div aria-label="Message header" class="y-module message-header" role="complementary"></div><div aria-label="Message header" class="info" role="complementary"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div ??="" aria-label="Message header" class="details hidefocus" role="complementary" tabindex="-1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><em>When you think "Trop Rock", you generally think warm climates. Which is why so many of the top artists in the genre make their homes in places like Key West and on the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. But, increasingly, you can find steel drums and island vibes in what most people would consider "tropically challenged" spots, like Michigan and Indiana. Proving it's not where your feet are, it's where your head - and heart - are that makes you a Parrot Head or Trop Rock fan, Dennis McCaughey and Tropical Soul have carved out their own little slice of Margaritaville in Central Pennsylvania. </em><span class="lozengeContainer"><em>I sat down with Dennis recently and asked him about the origins of the band, his songwriting style, and how his band become one of the musical mainstays of Meeting of The Minds, the Parrot Head "phlocking" that takes place every year in Key West.</em> <span class="lozengeContainer"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Tropical Soul, the band, has been together for over a dozen years. How long have YOU, personally, been playing music?</strong></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></div><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Well, it's hard to believe that TS has been around so long. We must have started when we were in high school!</span> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></span><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1335189565301345" style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Seriously though, I bought my first guitar in 1978 at the ripe old age of twenty (ok, start doing the math...) and was immediately hooked. My brother and I formed a duo a few years later and started playing in local bars and restaurants by about 1984. After some 34 years, I can't imagine life without music!</span> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><strong>The Keystone State doesn’t seem a natural spot for someone to start singing about “beaches and boats”. What made you gravitate towards that kind of music – the journey that took you there - and <span style="color: #351c75;">h<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;">ow did the band, Tropical Soul, come together</span></span>?</span></strong> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I think for me, I really just started to identify with the laidback life "backdrop" that the music is wrapped around. Even living in central PA, I've always been drawn to the water, I've always loved beaches, bars and boats, so when I found the musical connection to those things it just seemed to click for me. </span></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I bought my first Buffett album (yes, big round vinyl thingy) in 1983 and in the duo with my brother we did a few Buffett tunes. After a few years I went on to play solo and kept on adding more of Jimmy's songs to my repertoire. I went into a sort of retirement in the mid 90's. My wife and I joined the brand new local Parrothead club in our area in 1996. As we started to have regular social gatherings with the club, I thought it would be cool if I brushed up on some of the Buffett tunes I knew and offer to play at one of the get-togethers. I did this a couple of times as a solo and then our president Jim Moser said he had a friend who played bass and sang and was really good. He said he'd like to have him come out and join me for a few songs at the next meeting. I kind of forgot about it, but sure enough at the next meeting I met Jim's friend Al Anderson. He sat in on a few songs and played bass. It sounded great and by about the third song he was singing harmony. He was a great singer and our voices blended immediately. By the end of the set my wheels were turning. We hit it off and within a couple of months, we were booking gigs and Tropical Soul was born.</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">Every songwriter I know has their own process for practicing their craft. What is yours…</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">Do you decide, “it’s time to make a new album, let’s write some songs” or do the songs come first and, when you have enough of them written, then you make the album?</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">And what are some of your favorite Dennis McCaughey-penned songs?</span></strong></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Not being a very prolific songwriter, I have always approached it like "it's time to make a new album." I'm not one who writes all the time so when I do start to write, I have to conjure up some discipline and get myself to get into a routine of blocking out time and writing at least a little bit every day. It does work for me but it's not the prettiest thing in the world. Usually once I have enough songs for a cd, I'll go back to only writing occasionally. </span></span></span></span></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I always think the song, "No Plans At All", is probably my best writing. I like the way the studio recording came out too with John Patti doing a great part on the steel drums. "Bahama Mama" was fun to write and really came to life in the studio with Scott Bryan blowing everyone away with his percussion playing and JP killing it on steel pans. On the new "Little Summertime" cd there's a song called "Richest Man in the World", which talks about my dropping out of the corporate world and pursuing music full time. I probably won't be on the cover of Forbes Magazine any time soon, but I've been very blessed and really do feel rich......just don't check my bank account!</span></span></span></span></div></span></span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">What about touring,</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">how much do you and the band do</span><span style="color: #351c75;">?</span></strong></span></span></span><br />
<div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I guess we're on the road about ten weeks a year, total. Most of that time is based around trips that end up in Key West. I'm lucky enough to get to play in Key West about 4-5 weeks a year now, so I'll kind of build mini tours around those weeks. In the last couple of years we've also been fortunate enough to play in New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Diego, Canada, New England and lots of other wonderful places.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">What are some of your favorite</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">places to play around the country and what makes them a favorite?</span></strong></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">The first time I visited Key West, almost twenty years ago, my wife and I stumbled (probably literally...) into the Hog's Breath Saloon. There was a guy playing acoustic guitar and singing. The atmosphere was great, he was great and I couldn't help but wonder how cool it would be to get to play on that stage. Still one of my favorites! I love the Navagator for it's great vibe and Trop Rock loving crowds and The Yard in Tampa is so unique and cool. I had a blast there.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><strong>What about House Concerts?</strong></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
<span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've only done a handful of house concerts so far. It is a great and very intimate experience playing for a listening crowd. They are becoming more and more popular. As you know, I'm coming there to Atlanta to do a House Concert for you guys (sponsored by the Atlanta Trop Rock Alliance) in early May. I'm working on doing a little house concert tour later this year. I'll keep you posted on that.</span></span></span></span></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><strong>What are some of your favorite "home town hangs"?</strong> </span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many great places in the area, especially in the Summer. Some of my favorites are TJ Rockwells in Elizabethtown, with its huge tropical themed deck and outdoor bar made out of a boat. Heritage Hills in York has been doing Parrothead Sundays all summer on their beautiful patio for years. It's always a blast. Loxley's and Trio have great outdoor spaces too and are always fun and both are within five minutes of my house!</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #351c75;">My wife, Georgia, and I saw Tropical Soul at Hog’s Breath</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">Saloon</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">every afternoon during Meeting Of The Minds last year.</span></span></span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: #351c75;">Ho</span><span style="color: #351c75;">w did you get that gig? </span></span></span></strong></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1335224497779116" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I had gotten to know Scott Kirby in the late 90's. From the first time I saw him perform I was hooked on his writing, musicianship, sharp wit and humor. He was and is one of my favorite songwriters.</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">Through Parrothead events, crossing paths, occasionally sitting in with one another and having opportunities to spend some time together, we become good friends. When we were preparing to start recording our "No Plans at All" CD in 2004, I asked Scott if I could record one of his songs on the album. He graciously said yes. We ended up recording Scott's "Heart of a Beach Town" on that record. I had told Scott that we planned to release the new CD at MOTM that year.</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">He was scheduled to play at the Hog's Breath for the entire week and was kind enough to offer that we come by and play a set of our new songs during one of his gigs at the Hog. We were thrilled and we made it a CD release party. It was a greatt success! The following year, Scott was invited to play at the Casa (big stage) during MOTM. With not being able to play the Hog and the Casa, he recommended us to the folks at the Hog as a fill in for the day. We obliged gladly. </span><span style="color: #351c75;">The following year, there were two days that Scott had other gigs going and we filled in both. As Scott's schedule changed, we did three and then four days in the following years. Seemed each year another day opened up until finally we were offered the entire week.</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">I believe we've been doing the entire week for the last five years now. I feel very lucky to have "fallen" into this great spot. This year, my trio will be back again for the week playing the 5:30 to 9:30 shift. I can't wait!</span></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;">Where do you see “Trop Rock”</span> <span style="color: #351c75;">going in the next 5 – 10 years?</span></strong></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
<span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Well, ya know, the support and enthusiasm for Trop Rock still seems to be growing! I think one of the signs of longevity is that TR has found its way more and more into mainstream country music via Zac Brown and Kenny Chesney and the like. Plus I'm always amazed at how many younger folks identify with it. When Jimmy said "We are the people our parents warned us about" he was really onto something! It just seems to weaving through generations. I just hope that in 5 or 10 years I can still be a part of it.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: auto auto 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I just want folks to know how much we appreciate the support from Trop Rock fans for all these years. It's more fun each year......and hey.....I'll keep on singing those songs till y'all get tired of hearing them! </span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: auto auto 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><strong>Thanks, Dennis - see you "on the road"!</strong></span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: auto auto 0pt;"><br />
<span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thanks so much for taking the time to interview me Fred!! It's been a lot of fun!</span></span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv2057728552MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div></div></div></div></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">California for me was "beach innocence". For the first few years of my life we lived in Oceanside, a block from the beach. The beach was my world and I was always in the water. Life was like "Leave it to Beaver" on the beach. It was great. When I was three, we moved a few miles south to Leucadia and a few more blocks away from the beach, near highway 101. There was no freeway yet (the 5 didn’t show up until the late sixties) so I could still walk to the beach. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then your family moved to Hawaii?</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">When I was eight, we moved to Waikiki. This was pre-statehood. I went to Iolani Boys School, a private school across the street from the Ala Wai canal. My back lanai was probably twenty-five yards or so from the water and I had all summer to walk up and down the beach. Back then, the Outrigger Canoe Club was where Duke's (“Duke's on Sunday”!) is now. It wasn't long until a couple of the Waikiki beach boys were paddling me out into the waves. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">What are your first recollections of music back then?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kuhio Beach Park and Kapiolani Park in Waikiki was where the Kodak hula show was. People like Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, and Arthur Godfrey would play there. My dad worked for KPOI radio in Waikiki (in a basement suite of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel), then another station where he had a remote show from The Treehouse, at the entrance to the marketplace with J. Akuhead Pupule. Duke’s restaurant was pretty much right behind The Treehouse and eventually uncle Don Ho made his home there. Dad would sneak me in sometimes and I got to see Alfred Apaka, Mahi Beamer, Marty Robbins and others. Amazing! Dad was a jazz and standards dj ... so Thelonius Monk, Dave Brubeck, Toots Thielman, Howard Roberts, and Louie Armstrong, along with Frank Sinatra, Jack Jones, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, John Gary and others were always playing in our living room. I could only listen to my music in my room, but I liked it all. And dad kept adding to my record collection... it was cool! When we came back to California in the early sixties all I wanted to do was surf ... so moving back to Encinitas, which was fully entrenched in the surf culture, was a-ok-fine with me! The Surfaris, Chantays, Ronny and the Daytonas, Dick Dale, the Ventures all were such an inspiration…but not to play music, to surf! Then came the Beach Boys, the Sunrays, Jan and Dean, the Hondells and on and on. Musically, while I loved all these guys, it was still the old Waikiki Beach Boy music I loved the most. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of the early Beatles, Beach Boys, Kingston Trio and Brothers Four, as well as some Dylan and Donovan Leitch, reminded me of the old Waikiki music ... Middle to late sixties. THAT'S when I started getting poetic stories in my head. I didn't play guitar, and wasn't really interested yet, but I wrote all the time, mostly just poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reading books also had a big influence on your early songwriting, right? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Since I had wanderlust, but couldn't travel on my own (yet!) reading was my escape ... It was like seeing the world right from my own house or backyard or beach. Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Carl Sanburg, Robert Frost and others back then. Also C.S. Lewis, Clive Cussler, Frank Perretti. It still NEEDS to be a big influence ... "words in, words out!" <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Tell me about your first guitar… <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">It was a Yamaha I bought in Japan, while on leave from Vietnam... it was cheap and it had strings. I had a Neil Young “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" eight-track and a chord book for that album and as we steamed back to the Gulf of Tonkin from Yokosuka, Japan I began to teach myself how to play those songs. Then, I started applying the chords I'd learned to melodies I had in my head for my own music. It still wasn't as much about the music as it was putting my stories to music.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">You’re a “Beach Boy” heart and soul. What are some of your favorite beaches and why?</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Waikiki Beach is magic, that's all there is to it! It's not the prettiest beach I've ever been to, it's certainly the most crowded beach I've ever been to, but there's something about it. Whenever I go back for a visit the first thing I do is walk up and down that beach ... I look for old friends, and in my head, I'm back in 1958 and it's paradise! It’s the sand, it's the waves, it's the beach boys, it's the aloha.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Honolua Bay on Maui... I love it and it will always be my favorite surf spot in the world! It's in trouble now, too ... look it up!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Tofo in Mozambique ... The sand squeaks, there are Whale Sharks 30-40 yards off the beach, and the waves are amazing, and there's hardly anyone there!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Chiquita Island in Subic Bay, Philippines ... Ahh, the memories. Walking alone around the whole island, watching shark feeding-frenzies at the reef's edge. And the quiet!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Any beach on Ngeruktabel Island in Palau ... Many of the Palauan Islands are "rock islands", so there is no beach, but the ones that do have sand are breathtakingly beautiful ... and empty!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Punta Abreojos on Baja Sur ... The first warm-water surf spot past Guerrero Negro. Long, long rights and uncrowded.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Sunset Beach, O'ahu ... Well, maybe not so much the beach, but what waits when you paddle out! ;)<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Swanzy Beach, O'ahu ... Uncrowded, quiet and nice sand, great waves, but a long paddle out!<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Threes, O'ahu ... A surf spot, not a beach ... When it lines up it's the longest ride in town.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Big Rights, O'ahu ... Same as above! <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ahhh, so many beaches, so little time! ;)</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;"></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">How much time do you spend on the road now?<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">I try to tour once a month. Jerry Gontang (Stars On The Water) told me, “You can't make any money if you stay home.” 'Nuff said!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;"></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">What are some of your favorite things to do when you’re not out playing….Do you still get to surf?<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Hang with my family... it doesn't get any better than that! Fam first ... everything else next. But, next comes surfing and chilling with good friends! <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">How do you feel about House concerts? <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">House concerts and music festivals are all I really do (although, when I'm not on the road I do play a Hawaiian sushi family restaurant here locally on Friday nights!) Kelly and I and so many others of us see eye to eye in this regard ... many of us really are into the stories more than jammin' for the party, so the house concert venue is the bomb!</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">The name of this blog is Beaches, Bands & BARS. Where do you like to hang?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Either at home drinking the sweet nectar of my honey's love! (Was that too risque?), at the Marine Room in Laguna with a glass of port, or at Anthony's Fish Grotto in the harbor with a moscato.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">How do you feel about the term, “Trop Rock”? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">"A rose by any other name ..."! At first I thought it pigeonholed me, but I think that's only something we do to ourselves. To me the term "trop rock" can mean a Buffett-cover band to someone who wants to sing about margaritas and springbreak girls and everything in between. Sam Rainwater said it first (I think!), in terms of a common denominator ... "It's all about the backdrop!" To which I added, "the beachfront". It's the music of people who like the beach. In fact, that may be the only thing we have in common! I'm afraid I don't normally call my music "trop rock", though it is. I usually call my music either "my music" or "beach music". I do think, though, that the term "trop rock" is as broad a term as "singer/songwriter" ... especially if you're a "troprock singer/songwriter" like I am! <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;"></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">I know asking a songwriter what his/her favorite song is, is like asking a parent, "Who is your favorite child?" But do you have a couple of your songs that stand out for any particular reasons - because of the lyrics, the writing process, a recording session or maybe a particular crowd response?<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">I've been told by some surf instrumental legends from the sixties that "Slow Down Summer" is a classic oldies-type song ... One of them said, "Robbie, songs are supposed to become oldies classics ... but you just wrote a new oldies classic!" What an honor! I love writing songs that give props to my friends ... though John Frinzi says I'm just a shameless name-dropper! Songs that I've written specifically to dedicate to friends, or songs that friends have specifically said, "that's MY song" ... those mean a lot! And "Poet's Son" I wrote for my folks.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">I think we're blessed so we can be a blessing. I think we need to choose our words carefully, appreciate every second that's given to us, and be kind to everyone. I think we need to be aware of things we can't recover: the stone after it's thrown, the word after it's said, the chance after it’s passed, and the time after it's gone. I think we need to realize that in the end it'll be the things that we didn't do more than the things we did that we'll regret. I think we need to remember where we've been so we can appreciate where we are, while at the same time I believe we should leave the past behind and press on toward the high call of what's ahead. And lastly, my head hurts, my feet stink, but I do love Jesus! Not preachin' ... just sayin'! ;)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: large;"><strong>Maholo, Rob! Always a pleasure....</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-21520462748668851592012-03-15T09:01:00.001-07:002012-03-15T09:05:36.241-07:00How James White got "Sunny"...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James White is one of the most well known and popular Trop Rock performers in the world. But, how well do you know "Sunny Jim"? Read on to find out about his early days in the "Country music capital of the West", how a broken heart took him to the Caymans, how family trumped island fun, and some of his favorite local places to hang out with his wife, Adela. Oh, and how, exactly, he got "Sunny". Plus, the stories behind some of his favorite songs....</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">We have something in common… We both spent time in Corpus Christi, Texas. You were born in San Antonio, but grew up in Corpus. But, then your family moved to Southern California. How bad of a culture clash was that – going from coastal Texas to late 60’s Southern California??<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">It was a culture clash, moving to California, but not in the way you might expect. I went from beachy Corpus Christi (which is where I’m sure my love of the ocean comes from) to the Country music capital of the West, Bakersfield, which was WAY less tropical, and fairly “Leave It To Beaver”. We moved to an area that, no kidding, from the end of my street was desert-like conditions for the next 20 miles to the mountains. Bakersfield was a great location to be, though. 110 miles from the LA beaches, a couple of hours to Yosemite and the Sequoias (where you could go backpacking and rock climbing and skiing). We also had the Kern River to tube in the summer. Not bad! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Oh, it starts even before that. I remember country swing bands in the San Antonio area, and the Beatles, Stones and Beach Boys from the mid 60s’. In California, we had a particularly strong MoTown and Stax influence on the radio, along with Credence, Loggins and Messina, and the usual suspectes from that era. Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, Hendrix. I missed the regional east coast people, like Springsteen. That came later. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">My first guitar was my Dad’s. It was a cheap one he bought in Mexico. He played a little, and I started on that one. I remember in 1969 he came home with a brand new Yamaha FG180. It cost something like $120, which was a lot then. It was so much easier to play, and I eventually took that one over and played it or the next 20 years. I finally bought my Martin MDC around 1996, and Dad got his guitar back. He’s been playing ever since. My first electric was a Telecaster. I bought it used and regret selling it. I must have close to a dozen guitars now, mostly second hand cheapies and oddities. I like weird guitars. My main guitar for many years was a Fender Strat, in the Antigua finish. I bought it new (my first new guitar) in 1980. I’ve only seen two like it. One was owned by Eric Clapton, the other by the musical director for the Drifters, with whom I did a couple of gigs in the mid 80’s. I still have it, but it needs some work. It’s been bashed around a lot, and has yellowed over the years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">I was living in Northern California after going to college at Chico State, 90 miles north of Sacramento. I had a band with a drummer friend and our guitar player, Bill Cooley, moved to Nashville and immediately went to work with Reba McEntire (he’s now with Kathy Mattea). Then the drummer went out there to work with Allan Jackson. I figured it was time to try my luck in Music City. I got there and got a job doing data entry RC COLA. lol. But I was interested in song writing, and hung out at the Bluebird Cafe, where I met many wonderful people, heard all the best songwriters, and just soaked it all in. It was like grad school for songwriting. And I feel the next question coming on......<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">It sounds like a country song but I got my heart broken by a cute girl in Nashville, and joined the first band that was headed out of town.. lol That was a show band called the Marvells. After a year on the road, we landed a job as the house band at the Treasure Island Resort on Grand Cayman.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The resort was owned by some Nashville artists, so that's the connection. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Part of our contract included learning to scuba dive and getting to dive whenever there was space available on the boats. We worked five nights a week, and were finished at midnight on Saturdays (thanks to Cayman music and dancing law). So there was ample free time to enjoy island life. Which, I most certainly did. Why would I want to leave that? Oh, and I met my wife that October on her birthday. We were engaged by April, and married the following January (Super Bowl Sunday… she’s a Cowboy Fan and I’m indifferent). We’ve been married 22 years now and have 19 year old twin daughters. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Care to share any good Cayman stories from that time period – characters you met, colorful bars you played or hung out in?<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">I really should write a book. There are SO many stories. Here’s just a little taste:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Full moon night scuba dive parties, beach parties, tourist girls at the Holiday Inn on the beach (Barefoot Man Rocks!), locals inviting us into their homes and becoming life long friends, Pirates Week (Carnival), Australians, Brits, Philipinos, Germans, Canadians, Irish and French, South Africans, Jamaicans, wading in the Caribbean on my set breaks, Hurricane Gilbert and not being able to get off the island, my $500 first car, my amazing Trusty Rusty (the 3 cylinder minivan that seated 8 people - or four and dive gear), my Victoria 18 sailboat that I rebuilt with Rob Shirley (who started the Mastercraft Boat company in his garage), meeting Rob Morrow, joking with George Hamilton about Buffett, becoming friends with Al Roker (and taking him on his first night dive and going to his wedding in NYC), meeting Jimmy Buffett on his 50th birthday and ending up in his book “A Pirate Looks at 50” and playing on Radio Margaritaville (the first non-Coral Reefer and first time for R.M. out of the U.S.), meeting Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman and especially Sidney Pollack, hanging out with my band, snorkeling every Sunday morning at Eden Rock, learning to sail with Captain Phil, Sunday champagne brunch at the Hyatt, meeting shady people, raising my girls as a semi-stay at home Dad (THE BEST THING), and on and on. <o:p></o:p></span></div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">But, at some point, you decided you needed to move back to the States. Was that a tough decision?<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">The reason for coming home was twofold. First, my girls were very bright and needed to be in a school for gifted children, which they didn't have in Grand Cayman. Second, work permit issues were getting to be a drag. We were ready to be in our own country again. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">For two years, I spent two hours a day driving my Katie to and from school. Now that my girls are driving (second year of college!) I am able to travel a LOT more. Now, I’m all over the map. I’d say I’m gone from home about a fourth of the year. And now that my wife is working from home, she gets to come to the really cool shows. This year we’re looking at Hawaii (with Tom and Michelle Becker- Latitude), Isla Mujeres, Mexico with Mark Mulligan and Kelly McGuire, and Grand and Little Cayman this summer with the Barefoot Man. What a life! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Funny you should ask… Adela and I are heading to lunch today around the corner at the Spanish Point Grill. Also the Casey Key Fish House, Pops Sunset Grill. All old Florida style. We’re not city folk… lol We like to stay near our little Fishing Village of Osprey. And Rum and Coke is the drink of choice. Any dark rum. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">At least once a week I have a discussion with someone about the pros and cons of the term “Trop Rock”. I see it as a descriptive term for a style of music – in the same way people use “Country” or “Americana”. It’s a jumping</span></i><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">off point for what kind of material you can mostly expect you’re going to hear from that artist, as opposed to say, “Singer/songwriter” which is such a broad term. Others say it pigeonholes a performer. What’s your take?</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">I agree that it’s a good jumping off point. It seems to me that TropRock covers a lot of people who play music for Parrothead Clubs, even though they may be more rock than anything. I think my music does fit that name pretty well. I definitely have my 12 years of island life as inspiration for the lyrics I write, but the music isn’t all calypso and soca. Some twang pops in from my rockabilly days and my early Texas exposures. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Last year was the first Meeting of the Minds for my wife, Georgia, and I. We were originally planning to leave Sunday but people told us we HAD to stay for your Songwriter's Showcase at Blue Heaven – and we’re glad we did. That has become a staple of the yearly gathering in Key West. How did that come about?<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">My first MOTM was in 1998. It was when Hurricane Mitch hit. That was the worst storm of the 1998 season. It meandered around the Caribbean, sank the Fantome and crossed the Keys as we were driving down. Welcome to MOTM! My friend from Houston, Marcy Delissandri, got me booked at Blue Heaven, and that Sunday I did my show solo on the top of the water tower. I was back there in 99. In 2000, we moved back to the US from Grand Cayman, and I was on the road for the better part of that year. I had met so many good writers and performers, I decided that I wanted to turn Blue Heaven into a songwriter showcase, and expose listeners to people they may not have heard of, as well as get to visit with musician friends that I only got to see when traveling around the country. It’s been ongoing since then, and I only wish we had more time there! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">House concerts have become a big part of the Parrot Head/Trop Rock experience. Kelly McGuire says he loves doing them because they are a LISTENING experience, as opposed to a bar gig where you have to compete with everything else going on. How do you feel about them? Do you do many?<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">I do lots of house concerts, and much prefer that to a bar gig. Unless the bar is on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean! lol A house concert needs to be differentiated from a house party, where a concert is a listening/learning experience and a house party is, well, party time... If any of your readers see that I will be in their area and would be interested in doing a house concert, they should contact me through my web site. It’s easy to do one, and it’s really the best experience for the listener. It’s intimate. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><em>“Mermaids”:</em> For my daughters, who grew up snorkeling and swimming every day until they were 8. We used to have such joyous times in the swimming pool at our little Cayman apartment. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><em>“The Tropical Shirt Song”:</em> About a friend who would seem very conservative at the office, but once the weekend rolled around.... watch out! <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"><em>My wife’s fave, “Fishing In The Milky Way”:</em> About one spectacular night on Grand Caymans North Sound, when there was no moon, no clouds and no wind. The water was like a mirror, reflecting all the stars. If you’ve ever been somewhere where there was little or no ambient light, you know I’m telling the truth when I say you could hardly tell where the water stopped and the sky started. Every time you throw out your fishing line, it looked like you were fishing for stars in the Milky Way. And in my little boat, with my good friend Kean Monohan. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Do you have any others that stand out for you personally?<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">That’s a tough one. “Isla Adela” (from Postcards From Seven Mile Beach) is very special. Every time I sing it, it’s like saying my wedding vows again. Very uplifting. “Blackbeards Navy” has proven to mean a lot to so many people, that it’s now a favorite. “Moon Over Mustique” really caught the beauty of a moonrise shared between best of friends. I guess I need to put the stories and the lyrics on my web site, because each one of them really is a snapshot of a place in time. “Hallie Let Your Heart Go” changed from being about a girl not wanting to leave “paradise” to </span><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">being about a father telling his daughter that someday he’ll pass on, and that it’s a part of life like the sun setting and the moon rising. THAT was an amazing songwriting experience. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">How did you get the name “Sunny Jim”?<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;"> A drummer friend, Andy Arrow, use to call me that - both from my sunny disposition and from the Beatles movie, “Hard Days Night”. Then, in ‘98, I was on a cruise ship on the way to Grand Cayman with the Nashville band. The ship’s Jamaican band jumped ship and they were left with no afternoon entertainment. The Cruise Director asked if one of us could entertain a crowd and I volunteered. He told me I needed a “Caribbean sounding” name, so I used Sunny Jim. The band started calling me that and it stuck. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Anything else you would like people to know about you?<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #8064a2; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Well, I think it’s obvious that I love what I do, and never take it for granted. I love sharing music with people, hopefully giving them insight to my life and theirs at the same time. It’s the universal language, and it’s all about sharing the joy. Otherwise, I think it’s all pretty much out there... I am who I am (quoting Popeye, no less).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the entertainment business, being readily identified by just one name signifies uniqueness, a sense of accomplishment. Think Sting, Elton...Brooooooooce. Say the name "Hugo" to just about any Trop Rock fan and they will immediately know who you're talking about. I caught up with the one and only Hugo Duarte, who took time out from the road to answer some questions....</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s start way back in the beginning. Cuban, Chinese, and Scotts-Irish from the Blue Ridge Mountains. That sounds like an interesting mix. Tell me about the early days of Hugo Duarte?</span></span></i></div><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I grew up in Tigerville, South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In that environment, of course, I was exposed to bluegrass and country music. I used to sit up with my Grandfather and listen to The Grand Ole Opry on WSM on Saturday nights. I also grew up singing in the church choir from a very early age, so we had that genre as well. My first record was Walter Brennan doing "Old Rivers" and "Wolverton Mountain".</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to your web site, you then got turned on to the “classic rock” bands of the late 60’s/early 70’s. How did that happen – was it what you were hearing on the radio?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A lot of my friends were listening to the early rock in the 60s, especially the Beatles. We all begin to pay attention once we saw the Beatles on the Sullivan show. From there, it was an easy transition to begin to seek out interesting music. When FM radio started up, it became very easy to discover new music that we liked. I was listening to the Allman Brothers a lot. The Marshall Tucker band was from right down the road in Spartanburg and used to play in Charlotte, North Carolina all the time. That led us to bands like the Outlaws, the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Three Dog Night, Crosby Stills & Nash, and so on. I was also a big John Denver fan. So, I was listening to a lot of different kinds of music in those days. Of course, when Woodstock happened, it changed all our lives. That brought in Santana and a lot of the other bands that we were not familiar with up to that point. </span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But, along with the usual rock names – Hendrix, The Eagles, CSN - you also say you were into classical music and composers like Copeland and John Philip Sousa? </span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My Dad loved John Philip Sousa, so there was a lot of that playing in the house. My Mom liked Hank Williams, Mitch Miller, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Lawrence Welk, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart, and many others, so we had a wide variety of music all the time. I discovered Aaron Copland somehow, and I really enjoyed his music. My parents really enjoyed concerts, theater, movies, plays, and other forms of entertainment, and they insisted that my sister and I attend. We also had the school band at the college where my parents were both professors, so I had that form of music to listen to as well. My mom says that I had shown a natural love of music of all types from a very early age, so it was no great leap to move in any direction musically speaking.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You’re a teenager, now living in North Carolina, and a friend loans you a guitar. Tell me about that…</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My friend’s name was Darrell Stafford. We used to spend all of our time together when we were in middle school, either at his house or at mine. I was playing trumpet in the school band, so I was already involved in music as an active participant. There was an old Stella guitar in a case in his closet and one day I asked if I could see it. He handed it to me and I was instantly in love with it. Over the next few days, I would come back to his house and fool around with that guitar. Eventually, I asked if I could borrow it and he said “sure!”. So I took it home and did my best to learn how to play it, but it was really difficult to play because the neck had warped over the years. Several months went by and my Mom noticed my dedication to the instrument and took me to the music store and bought me my first “real” guitar. It was a Vox electric guitar and I had a small amplifier that came from Sears. Every day after school, I would sit in my room and play along to records until dinner time. After dinner, I would go back up to my room and play until my Mom forced me to do my homework.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What was the first song you remember being able to play all the way through?</span></span></i><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You wrote your first song around this time, too, correct? What prompted you to want to start writing your own material?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I started writing poetry when I was about six years old, so writing songs, to me, was simply an extension of that same process. When I was 15, there was a girl at my school that I was seriously infatuated with and she was a serious ballet student. I had her on a very high pedestal, but desperately wanted her to be my girlfriend, which was never going to happen. Needless to say, the first song I wrote was a tragic love song called "Dance For Me". After that first experience of putting lyrics to music, I fell in love with the process of writing songs and have never looked back.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have something in common – we both spent some time in Charlotte, NC. I was in radio – met my wife there – you were in college. What were you studying and what were your career plans at that time? </span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It sounds like the draw of playing live music got in the way of college. Tell me more about that…</span></span></i></div><br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of course, I took my guitar with me to college and would play all the time around the dorm. A lot of the kids I went to school with would sit around and listen to me play. One time, we had a major power outage at the school and the local newspaper came to do a story about how we were coping. For some reason, the reporter ended up in our dorm, where I was playing guitar and singing with a bunch of my friends sitting around me. The story morphed from being about how the students were coping without power to basically a story about me and my music. It was kind of strange that that could happen. It also provided me with my first taste of negativity, in the sense that some of the other students felt that I had stolen the story that should have been about them. All I did was answer the questions that were asked of me. </span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How did the trail take you to Key West?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My Dad moved to the United States from Cuba in 1949. The first place he lived in the US was Key West, Florida, where he still had many friends. When I was 15, we took a family trip there and it was the first time that I was able to drive the family car on the interstate. I had my drivers permit at the time and my parents allowed me to do a good deal of the driving to Key West. I still remember what it felt like to go over the old Seven Mile Bridge with a Winnebago coming at you from the other direction and nothing but a guardrail on the right side. I can still feel the tension of thinking that my side view mirror was going to touch! Once I left college to pursue a life in music – this was around 1977 - a booking agent got me and a friend, another guitarist named Robert, a job in Islamorada, Florida for a six-week stint at "Whale Harbor". A bartender friend of mine really liked our music and insisted that I go with her to check out the music scene in Key West. I was thrilled, intimidated, excited, and unsure of how I might be able to break in to that market. We kept being invited back to Islamorada to play over the next couple of years and each time I would go down to Key West and hang out. Two friends of mine purchased Rick’s on Duval Street and eventually hired us to play there. That was my very first gig in Key West.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Y<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ou spent some time with Jimmy Buffett? Tell me how that friendship developed…</i></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once we started playing at Ricks, it was not very long before Sloppy Joe's hired us. Then, around 1978-’79, we got a gig on the beach at the Pier House Hotel, which was a pretty heady resort in those days, particularly catering to European tourists. We played there for the next couple of years, on and off, and eventually were promoted up to the Havana Docks Bar upstairs above the main restaurant. It was a beautiful venue overlooking the water. One night, a large party came in and sat at a table right in front of the stage. Jimmy Buffett was in that crowd, and I recognized him immediately. Needless to say, it may me very nervous - to have him sitting in the front row. Somehow, we finished the set and went to the bar to get a shot of tequila to calm the nerves. Bobby Lieberman was Jimmy's road manager back then. Bobby walked up to the bar and told us that Jimmy would like for us to join them, and that he wanted to buy us a drink. How could we resist? So we sat down with the group and had little chat. We were doing a lot of his music in those days. Jimmy asks if we would mind if he sat in for a little while. The answer to that was a no-brainer. After 10 minutes or so of his being on stage with us, the bar was packed and we were rocking the house. The management noticed that something special was going on and came to me when we took a break to ask if there was anything they could do for us to keep this going. I asked for an office backstage to use as a dressing room and requested that they bring beer, water, towels, ice, and glasses to us as a courtesy to Jimmy. He ended up playing with us for the rest of the night. After that, whenever he was in town he would come in to wherever we were playing and sit in. At the time, we were going back and forth – playing in Key West for 6-8 weeks at a time, then going back to North Carolina for a few weeks before heading back down. Eventually, around 1984, I moved down there. We got a gig in a bar called "Del Rio’s” and played there until the owners went bust. That bar eventually became "Margaritaville". We were the house band at Margaritaville for a while until we were hired away by the “Hog's Breath Saloon". We did a few shows with Jimmy in Key West and other places after that and I considered us friends at that point. My favorite shows we did with Jimmy were a benefit to keep the city of Key West from granting licenses to people who wanted to build condos in the area where the salt marshes were. The other one was on New Year's Eve in the late 80’s when we played with Jimmy, Steve Winwood, and Steve Cropper, who was the guitarist on all those great Motown records and also the guitarist for the Blues Brothers. </span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cut to today – we’ll talk about the Frozen Gringos tour you’re currently on in a minute – where do you call home these days?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I live in Wilmington, North Carolina when I'm not out on the road. </span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How much time do you spend on the road?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The road life varies more or less, according to season, but I have to say, that I am traveling more than ever these days. I really love it and I love to get to new places and meet new people. It is always a treat to be able to share my music with folks for the first time. I do try to get home as often as possible to recharge, write, record, and live a normal life.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You’re out on the road with my old friend, Jeff Pike, whom I have interviewed before on this blog<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– the Frozen Gringos Tour. How did that collaboration come about?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jeff and I did a cruise together, although we didn't really know each other well at the time. He tells the story on stage of our first meeting, which is hilarious. I won't repeat it here. We'll just let folks that are interested come out and see the live show and hear for themselves. We did another cruise a year later and ended up playing at the hotel where we were both staying before and after getting on the ship. It was just for fun, but we drew a fairly good audience who filled a hat with money to keep us playing. Jeff looked at me and said, "Maybe we should think about doing this for real?" We talked about it for about five years, then, finally, the opportunity was presented for us to actually be able to get out here and do some shows together. So far, everything has gone way better than we had ever dreamed and we're having a wonderful time doing music that we each typically do, but, we are also doing music that neither of us have ever done either individually or together. We share the same musical interests and many of the same musical influences, so getting on the road together was an easy decision.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What stops have you made – and where is the FG tour going to take you two?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So far, we've played in Kentucky, St. Louis, Iowa for four shows, Minnesota for two shows…Next stop is Chicago, maybe Nashville after that and then to North Carolina for a couple of shows. Eventually, we will be back to Atlanta for a show there.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any good road stories you can tell from this tour – that I can share in a public forum?? Lol</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every trip has great stories that accompany it. We made a couple of cool stops along the way, either to see something historical or to honor one of our heroes that is no longer with us. We had to stop in Peoria, Illinois, to see the memorial to our friend, Dan Fogelberg, and we also stopped in Clarion, Minnesota, to honor one of Jeff's heroes, Glen Buxton, who was Alice Cooper's guitarist and is buried in Clarion. We also stopped in Northfield, Minnesota, the site of the James’ Gang’s last bank robbery. The history surrounding this place makes a great story for anyone who is interested in the history of the old West.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every year you host a party for your fans at MOTM, how did that come about?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I've been fortunate, over the years, to gain a lot of fans who have for the most part also become friends. I decided that the best way for me to be able to thank as many of them as possible for their loyalty was to have a party, during which I could take the time to say thank you to every single one of them who came through the door. I used to play at the party, but then decided that it would be a good idea to turn my friends on to people that I admire musically by asking other artists to come in and play for all of us so that I could maximize the time I get to spend with each individual guest. Over the years the attendance has quadrupled. We send out over 1000 invitations each year for the Fan Appreciation Party and that is exactly what it is; my chance to say “thank you”. “I appreciate you.” </span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How has social media changed things for an artist like yourself?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I'm not sure that we can really see a tangible result attributable to social media, although my personal feeling is that it is a much more desirable form of getting our names out there than advertising or spamming people with a bunch of newsletters, event notices, and other communications that fill up people's inboxes. It does give us the ability to communicate with our fans on a more personal level and on an everyday basis. For that reason, I do think that social media has changed the way we interact with people in a positive way.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What’s next for Hugo in 2012?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, who knows?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do know that I will be doing some of the things that I typically do each year, like my West Coast tour in the summer and our Hog’s Breath Saloon appearance at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meeting of the Minds in November. I am off of my typical schedule a little bit in that I am usually in the Pacific Northwest at this time of the year. Jeff and I have been invited to perform at the New England Parrot Head Convention in March and I'm doing Flipperstock in St. Louis in April. I may end up taking Jeff Pike with me on that deal, but we’re not sure just yet. We will be doing more House Concerts this year than ever before and I really like that. For the rest of it, you'll have to stay tuned - just like me!</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since this blog is called Beaches, Bands and Bars, I like to ask musicians I interview about some of their favorites in those categories: If you could be on any beach in the world, where would it be and why? What about other bands you listen to, including “non Trop Rock”, what is on Hugo’s Ipod? And how about your favorite watering holes at home – where could we find Hugo at Happy Hour?</span></span></i><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love the beach on St. Croix and on St. Maarten, both of which I got to visit this past fall. They are both beautiful, the water is incredible, and it is easy to be comfortable in either of those places. I have a lot of interests musically that do not fall into the category of Trop Rock and that is what I listen to mostly. However, I do listen to Rob Mehl because I love him, Kelly McGuire, Sunny Jim White, and Mark Mulligan. I respect all of those people as songwriters and performers. I listened to a lot of Billy Joel, Dan Fogelberg, James Taylor, the Eagles, a lot of country artists too numerous to name, Don Conoscenti, an old friend from Key West, Marc Barardo from New York, and my new favorite, Calman Hart from San Diego. I think the last question would have to be defined as “where is home really?” I really don't go out to bars when I'm at my house except to hear music and, as a rule,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't drink when I'm doing that. If I were to be found sitting at a bar, it would be at the "After Deck" at Louie’s Backyard. That is my favorite bar.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thanks for taking the time, Hugo... I look forward to seeing you and Jeff when the Frozen Gringos come through Atlanta!</span></span></i><br />
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Although there are plenty of well known watering holes between the end of the Florida Turnpike and Islamorada, we usually bypass them and make a bee line for our favorite spot - Lorelei's (officially "Lor-E-Lei Restaurant & Cabana Bar"). As I typed the words, I just let out a sigh, wishing I could be there right now...Sitting at one of the waterside tables with a hand made top-shelf Margarita. <br />
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Located at mile marker 82, on the right if you're heading South, the first thing you see is the weather worn Mermaid, welcoming you to Lor-E-Lei.<br />
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Head up the drive, park your car and it's just a short walk to a large outdoor patio that wraps around the kitchen and bar.<br />
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Park yourself on a stool, or walk out to the beach and grab a table. <br />
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Either way you're in for some great food and stout boat drinks. Conch Fritters are some of the best we've had anywhere and their "catch of the day" fish sandwich is always fresh and delicious - and one of the more reasonably priced in the Keys. Finish it off with a slice of their house-made Key Lime pie with whipped cream and Mango sauce and you'll know why we make it our first stop on any drive down to KW.<br />
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I have to say, we have never had bad service at Lorelei, even when they're busy. The last time we were there, we wanted to sit out on the beach but there was no server in that section. We went up to the bar, grabbed a couple of drinks and ordered our food. When the chow was ready, the Manager walked it out to us. Lor-E-Lei also has live entertainment seven nights a week.. And, unlike other water side establishments we've been to, the music always fits the atmosphere. When I'm kicking back, soaking up the sun and enjoying a cold beverage, I want to hear Buffett, Beach Music and Reggae - not hard rock or sad songs (I'm talking to you, Slider's in Fernadina Beach) . Maybe it's just me...<br />
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While we usually stop on our way down - which usually puts us there around lunch time - Sunset is when Lor-E-Lei really shines. On the return trip, we'll often time our flight out of Ft. Lauderdale so that we can catch the sunset (and another slice of pie) from their deck before bidding adieu to the Keys.<br />
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Another one of our favorite stops is Robbie's Marina, 4 1/2 miles down US1 and also in Islamorada... One of the main attractions here is a chance to feed the large and voracious Tarpon that hang out around the docks. Plunk down a few bucks, grab a bucket of bait fish, then walk out back and let the fun begin. <br />
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There is also a restaurant - appropriately named the Hungry Tarpon - with an outdoor bar....<br />
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And an eclectic open air market where you can buy everything from original art to jewelry and souvenir knick knacks.... You can also charter a fishing boat, rent kayaks and go snorkeling....<br />
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You can, literally, spend a whole day at Robbies...<br />
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To be continued.....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-43610856867246301502011-11-10T08:16:00.000-08:002011-11-10T08:57:57.835-08:00Meeting Of The Minds: Sunday, November 6th - The Last Waltz<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We had originally planned to fly back to Atlanta on Sunday, but were told by several MOTM veterans that we should stay to catch Sunny Jim's songwriters showcase at Blue Heaven. So, we made some last minute adjustments - which included having to move hotels - and stayed another day. And we were very glad we did. Getting reports that Blue Heaven was packed to the gills for brunch, we decided to wait a few hours before going and, instead, headed to the Smokin' Tuna Saloon, Scott Kirby's new place just off Duval (you can read more about it in my earlier interview with Scott here on BB&B). The place was also pretty packed but we ran into our new friends, Jimbo, Tracy, and Brett again, who were getting ready to leave and offered us their table, where we sat and watched Howard Livingston and, then, John Frinzi with special guest, Doyle Grisham.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Tuna is one of our new favorite places in Key West, with plenty of room, a cozy feeling despite being largely outdoors, and good food - the Smokin' Tuna Dip and peel & eat local shrimp were especially tasty. One funny note: After turning down my first couple of beer requests, saying they were out of stock, the bartender shrugged and by apologized, saying "This is our first Parrot Head convention. We just weren't ready!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We hated having to give up our much coveted table, but we wanted to catch at least some of the acts at Sunny Jim's showcase, so we closed out and walked up Whitehead Street. By the time we got there, the brunch crowd had subsided and, although there was still a good sized audience enjoying the music, there were plenty of places from which to watch the show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">If you've never been to Blue Heaven it's REALLY an outdoor venue. Unlike Smokin' Tuna, where there are at least some covered areas where you can go when the weather doesn't cooperate, there is no such shelter at Blue Heaven. Luckily, it was a beautiful Fall afternoon so being outdoors was exactly where we wanted to be. especially given the caliber of entertainment. Another interesting feature of Blue Heaven is that the "stage" is about ten feet up in the air, surrounding an old water tower. So, to see the performers, you have to look up. The advantage is that, unless you were to maybe get behind a group of NBA centers, you never have to worry about people blocking your view. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We caught Tall Paul, Latitude, Rob Mehl and several others before heading back to the Smokin' Tuna to see Kelly McGuire and Scott Kirby. On the way, we stopped by the Green Parrot, where the Sauce Boss was rocking the house while mixing up a pot of Gumbo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Back at the Tuna, we found the place to be even busier than before. Apparently, even though the convention was officially over, lots of folks had the same idea we did and had decided to stay another day. Georgia eagle-eyed a group with young children sitting at the very same table we left a couple hours earlier ("They can't stay long, they have kids") and this time we were able to repay the favor by inviting Brett and his buddies from the Ft. Meyers area PHC to come sit with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Kelly and Scott are two of my favorite Trop Rock artists, and the chance to seem them play together was a real treat. They were joined by Mike Aiken and the three took turns performing their own songs. And that was just the "appetizer" for the main event, Scott Kirby and guitarist Dave </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Edmisten (along with a fiddle player whose name I didn't catch). Together, they ran through some of Kirby's catalog, including one of my favorite all time Trop Rock songs, "Lucky Enough". The line "I'll raise my glass, you can kiss my old ass...I'll die with my feet in the sand" will probably wind up on alot of Parrot Head tombstones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A full day of music, wrapping up a long but thoroughly enjoyable convention, but it wasn't over yet. The last hurrah was the "No Plane On Sunday" party featuring Jim Morris & The Big Bamboo Band at Schooner Wharf. Morris had the crowd singing along to every song, mixing his own originals with rowdy covers, like Jerry Jeff Walker's "Up Against The Wall You Redneck Mothers". Wiped out but grinning ear to ear, we called it a night - and a week. On the way back to our hotel, Georgia turned to me and said, "As soon as we get home, we're registering for next year." </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-64833232698059155822011-11-10T07:12:00.000-08:002011-11-10T07:12:34.687-08:00Meeting Of The Minds: Saturday<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Saturday, November 5th</strong> - Normally, Green World Gallery on Duval Street - owned by trop rock fan "Koz" Koslowski and his wife, Pam Campbell - sells locally produced art. During Meeting of the Minds, it also became a live music venue, hosting a number of trop rockers. We started the day by stopping in to say hi to Loren Davidson - and staying to hear the always entertaining Bob Karwin.</span><br />
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I received an email the night before from Steve Tolliver of the Trop Rock Junkies, inviting Georgia and me to a breakfast and jam session at the United Street cabins where he and his wife were staying. The hour was a little early, 9am, but a chance to see Steve and some friends play pool side on a beautiful Key West morning made it worth the earlier than usual wake up call. We arrived to find a nice spread of food and pitchers of daiquiris ready and waiting. Pulling up a couple of chairs, we chatted up some of the other invited guests, including Kelly McGuire's "Gal Friday", Sandy Drobiarz-Records, and Fred and Sara Guerrero, owners of Isla Bella, nominated for Trop Rock Award House Concert Venue of the Year, while the musicians tuned up. Steve played some of his originals, including one of my personal favorites, "Sand In Her Shoes", and guitar-picked along with other musicians, including Trop Rock Award nominees (for Duo of The Year), Steve Johnson and Jimmy Johns, better known as Southbound. <br />
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Next stop was Duval Street for the start of the Margaritaville Street Party. We got there in time to catch the Young Rebel Goombas. The Goombas, from my old stomping grounds of Long Island, New York, got the crowd dancing with their upbeat blend of reggae, rock and ska. When they finished their set, we walked right door to La Concha to hear Brent Burns.<br />
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Walking back to our hotel to get ready for the worst kept secret on the island: Jimmy Buffett's "surprise" appearance at the Street Party - we caught a few minutes of the Sauce Boss, who was holding court at the Green Parrot. <br />
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Heading back to Duval, area balconies were full and the streets overflowing, but we managed to make our way to a great spot on the side of the stage. Meeting Of The Minds, although it has evolved into a celebration of Trop Rock in general, began as a gathering of Buffett fan club members. There is Buffett music, Buffett t-shirts, and plenty of everything Buffett sings about - beaches, boats and bars. The only thing that is usually missing is Buffett himself. Not on this day. Jimmy played for almost an hour, backed by the full Coral Reefer band.<br />
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</div>The event was originally supposed to be Mac McAnally's cd release party. That got pushed aside by Jimmy's visit, but Mac did get to play some of his own songs the next night at the Casa Marina. More on that later...<br />
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The finale of the night was the Trop Rock Music Awards back at the host hotel. Attendance seemed a little disappointing - there were, supposedly, 3500 convention attendees, but it looked like barely a third were there to see the awards being handed out. It could have been the chilly night air, or just too many other things goiing on back on the other side of town. Still, the show was fairly fast paced, speachers were short and gracious and the music in between award categories was entertaining (personal favorite was Paul Roush performing "I Wanna Be Howie" joined on stage by Brent Burns and the song's inspiration, Howard Livingston). Great job by the Margarita Mafia (which used the evening to announce they were changing the organization's name to the Trop Rock Association) and congrats to all the winners.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-84040386770023080502011-11-06T07:21:00.000-08:002011-11-06T07:21:32.534-08:00Meeting of the Minds: Like a Kid In A Candy StoreI mentioned in a previous post that I had promised to be diligent about blogging while here in Key West for the annual Parrot Head/Trop Rock convention called Meeting Of The Minds. The problem has been that blogging takes time. And, if you want to catch even half the artists performing on the island during the convention, while simultaneously trying to see some of the sights of Key West - like the sunset celebration on Mallory Square - maybe squeeze in a little shopping, time is in short supply....Oh, and there is that minor human requirement: food. Hear some music, tour the Hemingway House, grab a quick meal or two and next thing you know four or five days have flown by. Having been in Key West a number of times before, and as someone who can easily afford to skip a meal or two, our main focus this week was on the music. We tried to catch as much of it as we could, in as many places as we could. Here are some of the highlights:<br />
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<strong>John Friday, Rum Barrel</strong>; Trop Rockers are a pretty magnanimous and supportive bunch and are usually happy to invite other performers up to do their own material. We saw it over and over again all week long. This late afternoon show on the upper deck of the Front Street bar was a revolving stage of songwriters and guitar pickers, hosted and otherwise held together by John Friday and enjoyed by a number of smiling Parrot Heads from around the country.<br />
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In between acts, I sampled a flight of top shelf Rums and, for my efforts, was awarded a "Baccalaureate of Cocktailology" from Boat Drink University.<br />
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</div><strong>Tropical Soul, Hog's Breath:</strong> An always entertaining band from central PA fronted by Dennis McCaughey, it also featured one of the ladies up for "Female Vocalist of the Year" at the Trop Rock Awards, Heather - whose last name I never caught. I actually didn't even get her first name right, either, because I called her "Sue" when I introduced myself after their set, thinking she was Dennis' wife, who had sent me a number of their songs for an internet radio show I'm working on. Heather was gracious, however, and - instead of correcting or reprimanding me, she handed me two of her own cd's. She is also incredibly talented, rocking a flawless version of Adele's "Rolling In The Deep".<br />
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<strong>Jimmy Parrish, Willie T's:</strong> It's always great to see Jimmy and this Jacksonville, FL based Ocean Waves Band. The house was packed, the band sounded great, much tequila was consumed - a typical Jimmy Parrish show.<br />
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<strong>Jim Morris and The Big Bamboo Band, Smokin' Tuna Saloon</strong>: This was our first chance to check out Scott Kirby's new place (see previous interview with Scott about the Tuna on this blog) and to hear Jim Morris do a full set with his band. I never heard why, but the show began with what surely must have been the longest sound check in history- "check one" became "check a hundred and one"- but, this was a party for Jim's fan club, so the place was full of folks I have a feeling would have sat through a hurricane to hear him play. And he didn't disappoint, despite the late start, runing through a long list of his original songs, plus some great covers, like Jerry Jeff Walker's "Navajo Rug". <br />
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Interesting side lights included two girls in the front row who were either auditioning for - or had just been fired from their job as - background singers. They had carefully choreographed, synchronized dance moves to EVERY SONG Morris did. There was also a visit from the Beer Fairy. Not making that last one up.<br />
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<strong>Jimmy & The Parrots, Schooner Wharf</strong>: Our last stop of the night, this one was memorable for being the biggest and most entertaining train wreck we saw all week. I had heard soem great things about Jimmy and his band and was anxious to see them rock the Wharf's outdoor stage. By the time we got there, however, the band had obviously consumed much of the bar's supply of adult beverages because it had deteriorated into a drunken mess, with people climbing on and off the stage, songs started but not finished, and songs started that shouldn't have been in the first place. The band was having a blast, though, and so were their friends up front, so chalk it up to the late hour...and blame it on the Rum. Jimmy and The Parrots more than made up for it a few nights later, opening for the Coral Reefer band at the Casa Marina Beach party.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-36469471335746941462011-11-05T07:58:00.000-07:002011-11-05T07:58:51.875-07:00Blogging From Key West: I Tried, I Really, Really Tried....I promised a number of people - including myself - that I would diligently blog from Key West and Meeting Of the Minds. Then, we got here. From pretty much the minute we put our bags down in our room at the Island City House and rented a couple of bicycles, it has been one non stop whirlwind ride - or pedal, if you will - around the island. As Mr. Buffett would say, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.<br />
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<strong>Wednesday, November 2nd</strong>: First stop - The Bull (or Bull & Whistle for those who want to be exact) on Duval for the Atlanta Parrot Head Club Welcome Party. Hosted by Joel Oates and the APHC, of which both my wife, Georgia, and I are proud members of. Two-fer-seven bucks Margaritas and music from Jim Asbell & The Tropiholics. A great way to kick off six days of music and mayhem. it was also where we first ran into Kurt and "Achmed", his personal version of Jeff Dunham's dead terrorist puppet. This one welcomed all Virgins (i.e, those who had never been to a MOTM) to town. <br />
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We used The Bull as "home base" setting off from there to grab a bite to eat and check out other nearby venues, including a stop at Hog's Breath, where Jim Morris & The Big Bamboo Band rocked a packed parking lot of enthusiastic fans. Back to the Bull for some late night dancing and a couple of nightcaps and home to get ready for what would be a busy Thursday.<br />
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<strong>Thursday, November 3rd</strong>: The Island city House serves a very nice complimentary breakfast in the courtyard every morning. Unless you're Donald Trump, between what you pay for a nice room on the island and necessities like adult beverages during MOTM, you save where you can. So, free breakfast and coffee right outside your room is a no brainer. Fully muffin'ed and java'd, we climbed on our bikes and headed across town to the official convention site - the Casa Marina resort. The ride from the Island City House to the Casa is a pleasant one, down a number of back streets and past a variety of colorful Key West homes. It also takes you past the graveyard, famous for many interesting sites, including the grave stone that proclaims, "I told you I was sick".<br />
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Georgia and I arrived at the Casa and encountered something we never seem to luck into back in Atlanta. Looking to register, we were directed by security to the other side of the building, turned a corner and ran smack into a line of people a mile long. We turned to each other and whined in unison, "this is going to take FOREVER". Just as we were about to give up and come back later, when maybe it might not be as crowded, a benevolent Parrot Head standing in the mile long line saw our registration cards and said, "Oh, you have a green one. You're not in THIS line. You can go in THAT one." THAT line, the one she pointed to, was only about five people long. It turned out to be a last name thing, and we - being "M's" - had hit the alphabetical jackpot. Feeling a little bit guilty, but only a very little, we strolled to the head of the pack and before you could say One Particular Harbor, had our wristbands on and welcome bags in hand. <br />
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We made a quick spin around the floor, stopping for quick chats with Trop Rock artists Brent Burns and Jim Morris, each of whom were manning their own booths - selling and autographing copies of their cds and t shirts, or I suppose, whatever else any more adventurous soul might like signed, then slid behind the Parrot Heads In Paradise "merch table", where - for the next three hours - we helped sell t shirts, hats and coozies to conventioneers. PHiP is the governing body for the Parrot Head nation, and the one that throws this shindig at mile marker zero every year. <br />
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Registration and volunteer responsibilities completed, we climbed back on our bikes and heading back to our room to regroup and get ready to dive in to a veritable smorgasbord of Trop Rock. <br />
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First stop: The Rum Barrel, where we catch John Friday and friends and I graduate from Boat Drink U (I have the certificate to prove it). To be continued....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-54036391833295603942011-11-03T22:25:00.000-07:002011-11-03T22:25:41.010-07:00Meeting Of The Minds: Getting There is Half The Fun, Part 2After feeding the tarpon at Robbie's we made a stop at the next Walgreens we spotted to stock up on supplies for our hotel room, including adult beverages. Yes, I said Walgreens. In addition to the usual aisles of hair care products and incontinence medicine, this one had an attached liquor store. Hard to pass up sale priced Sailor Jerry Rum and Jose Cuervo, especially when you know you may be paying $8 to $10 for a good drink when you get to Key West. But, more on that later. By then, it was already 4:00 and we made the executive decision to do the rest of the trip non-stop, make a beeline to our hotel. That is, until I spotted the Looe Key Tiki Bar. Trop Rock fans may recognize the spot from the Howard Livingston song of the same name. It has always been one of my favorite Trop Rock tunes, so we had to stop in. <br />
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That is where we met the Most Organized Man In The World. Like Lor-E-Lei's, the LKTB was full of Parrot Heads heading for Key West. One group seemed especially animated, so I approached them and asked if I could get a picture for this blog. They cheerily obliged then, through the course of introductions, we discovered they were all members of the Ft. Myers, Florida Parrot Head Club. More than that, their defacto leader, Brett Baker, offered to show us "the book" if we would follow them to their next stop, which happened to be almost right across the street at Boondocks. <br />
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They weren't kidding. This was the most thoroughly researched, anally organized and painstakingly cross referenced organizational plan I had ever seen. Not just a color coded schedule of bands playing MOTM, but a complete list of bars between Miami and Mile Marker 0, the daily specials offered at those bars, and even the best food choices. Then, there was the schedule. Not only which bars were to be visited, but at what specific times, and for how long - along the proscribed route. This was a man on a mission, and that mission was to make sure he - and anyone travelling with him - squeezed every last drop of fun out of the 4 or 5 days they would be in Southernmost Florida. After basking in the glow of "the book" for a while, and talking to a recently transplanted Cape Cod-ian at the Boondocks bar (Me: "Why did you move down the Keys?" Him: "Why not?") we also discovered that Brett had an interesting business, selling "beer beads". That is, New Orleans style Mardi Gras beads, with bottle tops from your favorite brew crimped all along their length. before I could say "I'd love one of those!" Brett had his tailgate open and was handing me a set of Corona beer beads. <br />
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Next: Night number one in Key West.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2906857536005105638.post-45939391494341516942011-11-03T08:11:00.000-07:002011-11-03T08:11:31.580-07:00Meeting Of The Minds: Getting There Is Half The FunMeeting Of The Minds, the annual gathering of the Phaithful, is taking place right now in Key West, Florida. What started as a Fall migration of Jimmy Buffet fans, aka Parrot Heads, has turned into a celebration of Trop Rock - with dozens of bands playing in just about every Cayo Hueso bar and alley that can put up a sound system. After talking about it for close to ten years, we finally decided to take the plunge this year, booked a room, flights, and rental car and told the kids they were on their own for a week.<br />
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We're not novices to Key West, having been there a number of times - including our honeymoon. And one thing we've learned over the years: Getting there is half the fun. You can fly directly into the loftily named Key West "International" airport (really not much more than a small private airport that handles larger planes). But, we prefer to fly into Ft. Lauderdale and drive the 190 miles. That way, we can enjoy the beautiful scenery, appreciate the quaint little towns and keys, see local color...and, oh, by the way, there might be a watering hole or three to stop in along the way.<br />
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After landing in Ft. Lauderdale, we jumped in to our rented convertible and headed South. Our first stop on US 1 is always Lor-E-Lei's in Islamorada. Sitting right on the water, their "Boss" Margarita and Catch of the Day sandwich is just what the doctor ordered after a grueling hour and a half flight from Atlanta (feel free to make up your own excuses for needing food and/or drink). Sitting on their beach, enjoying the Gulf breeze and watching the boats go by immediately gets your mind off whatever you left behind. <br />
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Hunger sated and thirst quenched, it was back into the convertible and off to the next stop: Robbie's Marina. More of a flea market with a small bar, Robbie's has something for everyone. Cheap souvenirs, hand produced art, clothing, and - of course - food and drink. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next: We take the Howard Livingston Tour and meet some Ft. Myers phlockers, including the Most Organized Man in the World... And Night One at MOTM.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To be continued....</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16194671102009815054noreply@blogger.com0