Brevard Live January 2011 - 1 2 - Brevard Live January 2011 Brevard Live January 2011 - 3 4 - Brevard Live January 2011 Brevard Live January 2011 - 5 6 - Brevard Live January 2011 January 2011 • Volume 19, Issue 10 • Priceless FEATURES page 51 MARC DOBSON MERLE HAGGARD Can one musician play acoustic guitar, har- Columns His songs are the documentation of his monica and drums - all at the same time? life. He has experienced every aspect, Charles Van Riper Meet Marc Dobson and you will find out Political Satire from rags to riches, from convict to that it is possible to be a one-man-band. 22 American legend. Page 19 Page 9 Calendars 27 Live Entertainment, KENNY LOGGINS QUARTER MIDGET RACING Theatre, Concerts, Kenny Loggins’ commercial impact has If you don’t know what that is, you’ll Festivals, Arts been extraordinary. Twelve of his albums find out when your kids or grand-kids have gone platinum and beyond. In the bug you to go there. It is great and Brevard Scene past four decades Loggins has written safe family fun and will be coming to 34 What’s hot in and performed many hit songs also for Brevard County soon. Brevard many movie themes. Page 39 Page 13 Modern Woman MANUEL RIVAS 41 It’s a woman’s life LESS THAN JAKE He truly loves working on realistic by Misti Blu Day The band hails from Gainesville, Florida. paintings of wildlife, especially birds. Life & The Beach Originally formed in 1992 as a power His favorite piece of art (and maybe pop trio, the band evolved into a hybrid even his greatest is “The Hortensio”. Ri- 45 Relationship of ska punk. Less Than Jake will perform gas spent over seventh months on this Column at Captain Hiram’s. acrylic masterpiece of an Egret. by Matt Bretz Page 17 Page 42 Brevard Live January 2011 - 7 8 - Brevard Live January 2011 Brevard Live BREVARD LIVE The largest and most popular free entertainment magazine on the Space Coast and beyond for 19 years. 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He has experienced Mevery aspect of life, from rags to riches, from convict to American legend. Along with icons like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard’s lyrics Download a pdf file relate to the common man. Studying, analyzing and observing the details of life BREVARD around him, Haggard relays what he sees, hears and feels through his songs. The FLORIDA lyrics are deceptively simple, the music exceptionally listenable. Others who LIVE have lived through those same situations recognize the truth in the stories he www.brevardfloridalive.com tells. In 1997, Merle Haggard was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of www.brevardlive.com Fame for his song “Okie from Muskogee”. www.floridalive.org Brevard Live January 2011 - 9 10 - Brevard Live January 2011 Brevard Live erle Haggard was born in MOildale, California in 1937. His parents, Flossie Mae Harp and James Francis Haggard moved from Okla- homa to California during the Great Depression. Haggard’s father died when Merle was nine years old, and Merle soon began to rebel by committing petty crimes. At age 13 he shoplifted at a women’s lingerie store in 1950 and was sent to a juvenile detention center. In 1951, Haggard ran away to Texas with a friend, but returned that same year and was arrested for truancy and petty larceny. Again escaping the juvenile detention center, he went to Modesto, California. He worked odd jobs, legal and not, and began performing in a bar. Once he was found again, he was sent to the Preston School of Industry, digging ditches and wiring houses for in their repertoire until the band’s end a high-security installation. He was his brother. Soon he was performing in 1995. released fifteen months later, but was again, and later began recording with On Tuesday, March 14, 1972, sent back after a burglary attempt. Tally Records. The Bakersfield Sound shortly after “Carolyn” became an- was developing in the area as a reaction other number one country hit for Hag- From “Outlaw” To against the over-produced honky tonk gard, Governor Ronald Reagan grant- Country Music Stardom of the Nashville Sound. ed Haggard a full pardon for his past In 1968, Haggard’s first tribute LP crimes. Once again released, Haggard Same Train, Different Time: A Tribute Haggard’s guitar work and voice saw Lefty Frizzell in concert and after to Jimmie Rodgers, was released to ac- gives his country a hard-edged, blues- hearing Haggard sing along to his first claim. “Okie From Muskogee”, 1969’s like style in many cuts. Although he two songs Frizzell allowed Haggard to apparent political statement, was ac- has been outspoken in his dislike for sing at the concert. The audience en- tually written as an abjectly humor- modern country music, he has praised joyed Haggard and he began working ous character portrait. Haggard called newer stars such as George Strait, Toby on a full-time music career. He earned the song a “documentation of the un- Keith and Alan Jackson. Keith has sin- a local reputation but Haggard’s mon- educated that lived in America at the gled Haggard as a major influence on ey problems caught up with him. He time.” his career. The Dixie Chicks paid trib- was arrested for attempting to rob a ute by recording Darrell Scott’s song Bakersfield tavern in 1957 and was Blue Collar Songs “Long Time Gone”, which criticizes sent to the San Quentin state prison Regardless of exactly how they Nashville trends: “We listen to the ra- for three years. were intended, “Okie From Musko- dio to hear what’s cookin’/But the mu- Meeting those inmates scared him gee”, “The Fightin’ Side of Me”, and sic ain’t got no soul/ Now they sound straight. Haggard soon earned a high- “I Wonder If They Think of Me” were tired but they don’t sound Haggard,” school equivalence diploma, kept a hailed as anthems of the so-called “Si- with the following lines mentioning steady job in the prison’s textile plant, lent Majority” and presaged a trend Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in the and played in the prison’s band. Upon in patriotic songs that would reappear same vein. his release in 1960, Haggard said it years later with Charlie Daniels’ “In During his songwriting career, took about four months to get used to America”, Lee Greenwood’s “God Haggard has earned 48 BMI Country being out of the penitentiary and that, Bless the USA”, and others. In 1969 Awards, nine BMI Pop Awards, a BMI at times, he actually wanted to go back the Grateful Dead began performing R&B Award, and 16 BMI “Million- in. He said it was the loneliest feeling Haggard’s tune “Mama Tried”, which Air” awards, all from a catalog of he had ever had. appeared on their 1971 eponymous songs that adds up to over 25 million Upon his release, Haggard started live album. The song became a staple performances. Brevard Live January 2011 - 11 12 - Brevard Live January 2011 Brevard Live January 28, At Heidi’s Jazz Club, Cocoa Beach Kristin Korb ristin Korb is a bassist and an jazz Ksinger. Originally she played gui- tar and sang country music; Barbara January 20, Mandrell was one of her favorites. At The King Center, Kristin also studied piano and violin. Melbourne She attended the Soundsation Jazz Camp one summer and became inter- Kenny ested in jazz. She switched from gui- Loggins tar to electric bass to join a vocal jazz group in the 7th grade, taking up the acoustic bass in 11th grade. Korb earned a degree in Music enny Loggins’ commercial impact has been extraordinary; twelve of his Education at Eastern Montana College Kalbums have gone platinum and beyond. In a world of one hit wonders in 1992 and got her masters in Classi- and fifteen minute sensations, Loggins has enjoyed hit songs in four straight cal Bass Performance at the University decades. To this day, Loggins continues to write and record at the height of his of California at San Diego. She took powers as a singer and a songwriter. This is something that Loggins proves ev- lessons from Bertram Turetzky who ery time he takes the stage to sing his soulful songs straight from the heart. inspired her to sing and play bass at After a short stint as a guitarist for The Electric Prunes, Loggins scored a the same time. In 1994, she met and job as a $100-a-week staff songwriter and penned four songs on the Nitty Gritty started studying with Ray Brown, who Dirt Band’s 1970 album Uncle Charlie and His Dog Teddy, among them the recorded her debut the following year, classic “House at Pooh Corner.” Around this same time, Loggins caught the at- Introducing Kristin Korb as vocalist tention of former Buffalo Springfield producer and Poco member Jim Messina, with the Ray Brown Trio.