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T-BONE WALKER BLUES FEST by Gary Krell

From legends Jimmie Vaughan, Rick Derringer, and Anson Funderburgh, to Eric Gales and the Tyler Lenius Band, Longview is proud to be the new home for the one and only T-Bone Walker Blues Festival.

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Although the coverage of music and musicians has a place in Piney Woods Live every month, once every year we devote a major portion of one issue to that subject. Another such issue is upon us, our fourth if I am not mistaken, and as usual, it has been a challenge, but fun, to put it together. In fact, it is the one issue that the staff most looks forward to during the year. And in music, these are exciting times in East Texas. Artists with their roots in the Piney Woods are touring nationally, gaining increased media exposure, and releasing albums of their own songs. Nearly every public celebration includes live music of one genre or another, giving increased exposure to musicians at all stages of their development. And the many area spring, summer, and fall music festivals continue to develop and proliferate. You will read about all of these and more in the pages of this issue. A couple of items relating to music festivals deserve special mention here. First, The City of Longview expanded the annual 4th of July Fireworks and Freedom Celebration this year to include a concert and festival events. The concert featured Neal McCoy and also introduced many of us to young Holly Tucker. Holly, who is from the Waco area, made it to the top six on Season Four of NBC TV’s The Voice. In addition to the concert, free music filled the afternoon and early evening on one of two outdoor stages. Kudos to city officials for their efforts to broaden the appeal of the traditional celebration to include music fans. Secondly, the upcoming T-Bone Walker Blues Fest is covered in detail within the pages of this magazine. As many know, this is the first year of the festival in Longview after eight years at its original home at the Music City Texas Theater in Linden. In a number of conversations with officials and volunteers working on the event, I have learned much about the organization that I think is worth sharing with our readers. The festival is “owned” by a non-profit corporation whose stated aim is to propagate the legacy of the great T-Bone Walker through the preservation and promotion of blues music. The organization has no paid staff and is composed of a volunteer board of directors, plus an “advisory board,” also volunteers. It has been pointed out, here and elsewhere, that this year is somewhat of a trial period for Longview and the festival. A shake-down cruise, if you will. This is not without significant challenges. Here are the issues: No direct public funds are being used in the production of the festival. The production of the event is dependent upon the cash and in-kind contributions of sponsoring businesses, organizations, and individuals. These funds are used to hire musicians and vendors, pay for advertising and promotion, etc. The actual operation of the festival is, in turn, dependent on recruiting a rather large group of volunteers. The continued success and expansion of the festival depends on the community meeting these two challenges. I urge music fans in the Piney Woods to step forward to support the festival, with sponsorship if that is within your capability, or by making the effort to volunteer for a few hours work before, during or after the event. On another note entirely, Texas blues guitarist and singer Johnny Winter has died at the age of 70 in his hotel room in Zurich. Like many bluesmen of his era, he worked to the very end of his life, having just completed a European tour. Winter, rated number 63 of the best 100 guitarists in the world by Rolling Stone magazine, headlined the T-Bone Walker Blues Fest in 2010. www.pineywoodslive.com/events/2010/jun/19/3426/ Closer to home, Longview chiropractor and photographer Dr. John Petty has been reported missing while on a diving and underwater photography expedition in the Bahamas. Authorities there have concluded that he was the victim of a fatal shark attack. Petty’s art photography won numerous awards and his work was profiled in this magazine in August of 2012. issuu.com/pineywoodslive/docs/pwl_august2012/8 Well, that’s it for now! As always, we are interested in what you think. Send your comments to publisher@pineywoodslive.com. Enjoy the magazine and, most of all, enjoy the music!

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A Taste from Near or Far with Claudia Lowery

am NOT an expert at this, butt I ha have ave v an appreciation for and lovee of exex xcellent food. For years, likee many people, I cringed at the thought ught of raw fish, but I do have a spirit pirit for adventure. So when the day arrived that friends invited me to tryy sushi, I went along for the ride, and I was converted. nverted. Years have passed since that first adventure, and it’s been interesting to say the least, with dining experiences that range the full spectrum. And then … there is Nijiya’s. Recommended by my publisher, I made an 80 mile drive to try a Japanese restaurant humbly tucked in a strip shopping center filled with other businesses. Doing my homework by reading reviews online, the restaurant’s rave reports had me curious and excited. Arriving at a peak Friday evening service, I entered to find just one chef working at the sushi bar. (If you’ve never visited this type of restaurant, I highly recommend sitting at the bar just behind the glassed display of chilled fresh fish to watch the chef(s) at work creating one masterpiece after the other.) It turns out that my chef was the owner, Tracy Shan. The focused intensity and speed with which his hands moved to prepare each sushi roll was amazing to observe. Attention to every detail was apparent, and he wanted to save my questions for later so that he could give each waiting customer his very best. My servers were extremely helpful explaining the menu, making suggestions, and then patiently trying to teach me how to hold chopsticks. Bless their hearts, I’ve tried it a hundred times in the past, and I still can’t make my fingers cooperate with each other. I asked for a fork. My meal began with a light broth-based onion soup with a deep savory flavor. My appetizer PineyWoodsLive.com

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to keep my menu with customer favorites and still come up with new, creative dishes.” Shan is often very quiet as he concentrates on his skillful work, but as time progressed, he smiled and showed his love for Nijiya’s. “I don’t want to get big and it become too much. This is exactly what I want … fresh food and satisfied customers.” Nijiya’s menu is extensive with a variety of choices. Please remember, there are MANY cooked items for those diners who still have second thoughts. A grilled hibachi dinner comes with soup, salad, shrimp appetizer, vegetables and rice and selections include filet mignon, scallops, chicken, beef, salmon, and shrimp. Lunch prices range from $8.95 upward, and dinner prices begin around $10.95 and up. The Dinner Bento Box could easily be shared with a guest due to the large variety, and the prices are $17.95 and $18.95. Hibachi dinners begin at $12.95 to $24.95. Inside Nijiya’s there is a medium-sized dining area in the front, including the sushi bar where guests may observe the chef at work. However, if you have a very there is a large dining area in back large group, gro that may be reserved. Variety is the spice of life, and I can now say Vari across that line. Life is too short not I’ve reached reac t have new experiences, and trying a little sushi to has my life. In fact, it has inspired me h ha as enhanced enha t write to wri rite a haiku, a short poem originating in style from fr om o m JJapan. a ap Earth’s E arrtth’s h’s ggifts prepared now, wait Iw ait aanticipating. n Happy, mouth. H appy, y, happy h

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by Jan Statman

arshall artist Kay Clement started out painting original designs for Christmas tree skirts, which she enjoyed. But then she learned about

floorcloths. “When I fi rst heard about floorcloths, I was fascinated,” Clement admitted. “I said, ‘Ohmigosh! I think I have to do that.’” She found something that was more than painting on canvas, it was art made into something that was functional and useful. She discovered that floorcloths add warmth to cold floors, and they won’t collect dust or dust mites. Plus, they can stand up to years of heavy traffic; they are extremely durable. Many of them have stood the test of time. “They are surprisingly tough and sturdy,” Clement said. “I had the chance to make a roomsized eight by ten inch floorcloth for a lady who lived in West Monroe, Louisiana. I was really worried about that one because she put it down on a brick floor and put heavy wrought iron furniture right on top of it. That floorcloth got hard wear since she had a large family and she entertained a lot. It turned out to be just fi ne. She used it for 10 years before she turned it over to a decorator, who put it into another client’s home, and it is still going strong.” Kay is also happy to know that another one of her early floorcloths continues to look good. “I did another early one that was 88 square feet in size. It is about 17 years old now. The only sure way you can destroy one is by fi re,” she added. “We had a fi re one time, and a floorcloth nearly burned to bits. There was no way to salvage that one. It was damaged beyond use.” Kay grew up in Marshall. She credits that for her strong interest in history. Her husband Ray is from southern Louisiana. She met him when he came to Marshall to coach at the high school. They later moved to Jennings, Louisiana, to be closer to his family, particularly to his mother. “I adored my mother-in-law, and it was a joy to be near her,” Kay explained. “She was a beautiful, tiny and gracious little French lady.” Their five daughters were born in Louisiana, and they lived there until Ray’s mother passed away. When Kay’s own mother bePineyWoodsLive.com

came ill, they decided to return to Marshall to take care of her. “I came full circle,” Kay laughed. “We moved into the house that my mother and my dad built. So here I am back living in the same house where I grew up. In fact, with only the addition of a few more numbers, I still have the same phone number!” Her love of history that started in Marshall and grew in Louisiana served her well in her study of floorcloths. The remnants of a very old floorcloth in a plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, intrigued her. Then she later learned that her friend, Marshall artist Mary Norvell, has a canvas painted ceiling in two of the rooms of her house. “Her house is circa early 1800s,” Kay said. “We strongly suspect that at one time the house had floorcloths to match the ceilings.” She soon found out that floorcloths were fi rst used in France and then the style became popular in England, where huge, heavy, durable canvas was woven on giant looms near the port of London. The canvas was originally woven in such large sizes because it was meant to be used to make sails for ships. However, enterprising artists began to paint the canvas to make rugs for use in people’s homes. Painted floorcloths, or “oylcloths” as they were called back in the 1400s, were used to protect the expensive woven carpets that were used under banquet tables. At fi rst the floorcloths were simply block printed or stenciled designs made in only one color. By the 1700s, floorcloths were being used and appreciated for their own beauty and design. By that time, the best quality floorcloths were imported from England. They were stenciled, painted freehand, or block printed. The earliest cloths were decorated to imitate fi nely grained wood, expensive marble, glossy tile, and fashionable Turkish carpets. By the 19th century, they began to use as many as five colors. Popular designs were copied from elegant French wall and table coverings. Colors used were chromes, Prussian blue, azure blue, black, vermilion and malachite greens. Yellow ochre was the most popular background color.

When European settlers came to America they wanted to decorate their new homes in a way that reminded them of the familiar places they had left behind. Only the wealthiest people could afford to buy the imported factory-made floorcloths from England. Since most settlers had limited resources, they used worn sails from ships as canvas, and they used hand-cut stencils for designs. At least three American presidents are known to have had floorcloths. George Washington purchased one for his home at Mount Vernon in January of 1796 for the princely sum of $14.28. When John Adams left the White House, there was a floorcloth listed in the inventory of his possessions. Thomas Jefferson had at least two floorcloths. Jefferson evidently considered the English floorcloths to be of better quality than the American-made variety, so he reluctantly paid $3 a square yard for the floorcloths he had at his home at Monticello. There are 18th century advertisements that can give us an idea about the popularity of floorcloths. Discounts of 10% were offered to merchants and builders purchasing in quantity. Advertisements in the 18th century also offered customers a choice of shapes, sizes, decor and colors. A Boston, Massachusetts, company advertised, “For sale – a large and elegant assortment of painted floorcloths, without seams, some in imitation of Brussels carpet.” They sold from $1.37 to $2.25 a square yard. Although that may not seem much money to our 21st century economy, it made the floorcloth quite a valuable asset at that time. At some point, the simple stenciled designs, the copies of French wall and table coverings, and the copies of Brussels carpets began to give way to original creations in pleasing patterns and colors. They became more individual. Kay Clement designs her floorcloths for the people who will own them.

“I like to know about the people when I accept a commission from them because I know the floorcloth I will create is going to become a family heirloom for their family,” Clement said. “When I accept a commission to do a floorcloth, I know it will go into a specific area in a person’s home. I want it to be one-of-a-kind, and I want it to be very special for the people who will own it and for their family. Sometimes someone will look at the fabric for the floorcloth and they will tell me what they enjoy so I can try to make it suitable just for them. I want it to be perfect for them,” she added. As the nation moved to the west and south, the popularity of floorcloths moved with them. They were widely used in Texas until the more affordable and durable linoleum replaced them. “This is why the Texas Folk Life Festival planners were interested in having me demonstrate this very old craft,” the artist explained. “My floorcloths are made basically the very same way they were created in the 15th century. I use acrylic paint as opposed to oils, and I protect them with several layers of polyurethane, making them practically indestructible. “It has been one of the most wonderful experiences I have ever had to be named a Piney Woods Artist. Along with other area artists, Jan Graner and JoAnn Imhoff, I am happy to be included in the Folk Life in the Piney Woods of Texas exhibit at the Institute of Texan Cultures, which is a branch of the Smithsonian Institute.” Made possible in part through support from the National Endowment of the Arts, Art Works, and the ITC Texan Fund, Folklife in the Piney Woods of Texas documents many of the craftsmen and women who continue to work in those folk arts that are an important part of the true Texan heritage. The artists who are included in this exhibit span both the old and new ways of learning and working. Crafts in the exhibit include everything from leatherwork, metalwork, spinning, weaving, gourd carving, woodcarving, quilting, textiles, instrument making, hat making, canning, and pottery, to basket weaving. Other Artists in the exhibit are: Nathadis Lucas, Midge Jackson, Yvette Jirka, Cindy Grayson, Lashgar Gah, Novis Hitt, Cynthia Jones, Steve Hartz, Larry and Sarah Bruce, Nelson Kennedy Tom Criswell, Mike Helms, Clarissa Spence, Rick Kuper, Tom Lundquist, Glen Noble, Jeanie Noble, Mary Brown, Leonard Miller, Lien Ege, Terry Ward, Rusty Lee, James Tramell, Drue Cochran, Prison Crafters of the Walker County Texas State Penitentiary, Hunstville Unit, and the Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of the Infant Jesus. The exhibit opened June 6 and continues through August 31 on the grounds of the Institute at the HemisFair Park Campus, 801 E. César E. Chávez Boulevard in San Antonio. For further information, please contact Kay Clement at 903-9357197. August 2014 - Page 11

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an honest and sincere answer. More than that, they are probably the same questions that a whole lot of people have, although most people don’t have anybody to ask, “Just exactly what is going on here, and why?” Okay, so where to start? To begin with, nonobjective art is NOT some weird game of Where’s Waldo. You really can’t look at a painting of space and color and think you have found something that looks like a bowl of fruit in the lower right hand corner, nor will you see the image of a small child hiding in the shadows. When it says “nonobjective,” it means exactly that. There is no object. If you think you see an object, it is your own imagination that put it there. The artist had other things in mind. That being said, it is easy to understand that contemporary art may seem confusing to some people because it takes you away from the nice, pleasant, safe and secure shelter of outside references. When the very first artists painted animals on the walls of their caves, they were considered to be shamans, seers, magicians or some sort of religious leaders. Those animal paintings had movement and took on a sort of liveliness of their own. They were probably used for purposes other than the pure enjoyment of the art. Still, I cannot shake the feeling that there was some cave man standing behind a stalactite with pursed lips and a very serious look on his face saying, “That saber tooth tiger doesn’t look like a saber tooth tiger to me. My four year old could paint that.” Just as there have always been artists, there have always been art critics. Through all of history, when an artist paints a portrait, there is no problem. When the portrait is successful, you can recognize the face of a person who is looking back at you from out of the canvas. If the painting is a still life, you can recognize that there are bowls of fruit. Flowers flutter and glow in a vase. A fish is a fish whether it is swimming in water or it is filleted on a china plate. A landscape is a landscape – there are trees and gardens, mountains, valleys, maybe even a house. The religious paintings that dominated much of art for centuries will be filled with symbolism and important images. No trouble with that. It is easy to see. It is recognizable. The reference to real life is comfortable and complete. And we all like it. In fact, we like it so much that we don’t bother to concern ourselves with the things that artists have to worry about when deciding they are going to create a work of art, which includes the natural ability to draw. If you don’t have that, you won’t be an artist; you will become something PineyWoodsLive.com

else like an accountant or a musician or a brain surgeon or a computer scientist. All artists start out by drawing what they see. Then they have to learn how to build on that natural ability. A good work of art will have certain elements of line, color, shape, form, texture, movement, dimension and a lot of other important stuff. It will contain the mark of the human hand and eye by which it was created. So what happened? How did things change? Why did things change? One of my favorite critical art experiences was when my friend Betty, the post office lady, finally had the chance to see one of my paintings and she exclaimed, “Oh! You make pictures of nothing!’ Even though it might seem that way, that is not exactly the case. Nonobjective paintings may not have an object, but there really is a whole lot of other interesting things going on. It may surprise you to realize that all art is the product of the time in which it was created. As you look at the way art has changed through the centuries, you will find that there have always been different ways of interpreting what the artist sees. There have always been different ways of making it into art. I’m pretty sure the ancient Egyptians didn’t walk around with their heads and legs going in one direction and their shoulders facing straight at you, but with the exception of the elAmarna heresy, that was their style for many hundreds of years. All the ancient Greeks could not possibly have been that beautiful, but the search for perfection and ideal beauty was the style of their times. Medieval artists had their own flat, stylized way of painting because it was what was expected of them. The Renaissance brought a perspective vision back to the arts. Even though there were variations in that style, it was dominant for well up until the middle of the 19th century. It hasn’t gone away. It is still with us. Art started to change dramatically with the industrial revolution, when life started to change in spectacular ways. Suddenly there was a new clock in the tower, and as soon as it was installed it began to chime in double time. There were machines, there were factories, there were trains, there were rapidly growing cities, and most exciting for the arts, there was photography. Photographers turned out to be the best friends of other visual artists. Our good friends the photographers freed us from the demands of the academic salon. While we still had the same needs for line, color, shape, form, texture, movement, and dimension, we were suddenly free to use them in totally different ways. It was no longer necessary to copy what we saw

in a photographic way when it was obvious that a good photographer could do that a whole lot better. Artists were free to experiment with the way light changes color or with the way line can dominate a canvas. A whole entire painting could be made up of color for the sake and excitement of its own beautiful self. Dimension could be expanded or flattened. Movement could become so exciting that a work of art could trace the way a brush could move the colors and shapes around the canvas. Surfaces could be flattened or expanded. Paint could be used for the sake of painting. An artist could paint a golden cornfield without any stalks of corn or grain, using only the shining sense of heat and color. One perspective of a portrait face could be stretched out to include the way a face looks when it is looking at you as well as when it is looking away from you. We no longer had to stick with painting what other people expected to see as reality. We could now paint the fabric of our dreams. Reality could be translated into cubes of color and movement. There could be no end to the excitement of what is and was and what could be. When you start to look at nonobjective paintings, you don’t need to try to look for that object that isn’t there. Decide what the artist was excited about and how it affects your own thoughts and feelings. Can you sense the mark of the human hand and eye as a strong force in what you are seeing? Is it color for the sake of color? Is it painting for the sake of paint? Does the ocean roar inside the colors of blue and green? Do the red rectangles and straight yellow lines remind you of the bustle and noise of the city? Do the arcs and circles and spheres remind you of a dance? Does what you are seeing stretch your sense of what is real and true and maybe even what is beautiful? Art can be ephemeral and imprecise. It can be as slender as a moment or as deep as an ocean, just like life. And it really is okay if that saber tooth tiger doesn’t look like a saber tooth tiger anymore. Award winning artist and writer Jan Statman’s paintings are owned by museums in Italy and Spain and by corporate and private art collections across the USA. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the Arts, Dictionary of International Biography, and numerous other references. Best known for colorful acrylics, and delicate watercolor paintings, she also judges area art exhibits and teaches painting classes. See her work on Facebook at Artist’s Studio of Jan Statman American Artist.

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PAT’S PUB

by Jacob Mauldin

ast Freddy’s pool hall was kind of a Longview tradition. It was a great music venue and probably the best establishment catering to billiards in town. So when I sat down with the new owner, James Baker, to watch a live band at the newly renovated Pat’s Pub, the fi rst thing I asked him about was rebranding the bar’s name. “If you say Fast Freddy’s around Longview, you’re going to get a couple of different reactions,” Baker told me. “People love it around here who remember how it was a few years ago. Nicest pool hall there was. But in the past, say, five years, it got a bad rap. And I figured if we don’t change the name, everyone will say, ‘The only thing that changed about this place is the owner.’” And it’s obvious more than that’s changed. For one thing, they removed the entire wall separating the band area from the main room giving the entire place a new, open, spacious feel. “Yeah, we took out that wall and rebuilt the stage. Myself, my grandfather and my uncle renovated the whole thing ourselves in six months. Entire overhaul. Redid all the woodwork, all done by hand in cedar and oak.” Baker’s going for an Irish motif, another reason they chose to rechristen Fast Freddy’s as Pat’s Pub. “That’s why there’s a lot of wood,” he explained. “And to be a pub, you have to feature a lot of draft beers, so that’s why we added twelve taps, bringing us to eighteen total. Buffalo Wild Wings does have more, but they’re a restaurant, so as far as bars go, we have the most beer on tap. We also have the most pool tables in town and the largest stage.” As far as why he specifically chose the new moniker for the bar, he said he named the place after his late father, Patrick. I like a place with a wide selection of beers, so I was curious what some of his more unusual

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ric Clapton, nearing the end of a long and phenomenal music career, was recently interviewed by David Fricke for Rolling Stone magazine. Fricke asked Clapton how he felt about the future of the guitar in popular music. “The guitar is in safe hands. Gary Clark Jr. shines now. He’s years in and hasn’t even gotten started yet. And its always safe with people like Jimmie Vaughan and Derek Trucks. It’s about soul and character. It’s about humility and willingness to learn, to be of service to the music,” replied Clapton. PineyWoodsLive.com

guitarist Eric Gales and his Trio. Also on the Saturday bill are the Rick Derringer Band, Jimmie Wallace and the Stratoblasters, Texas Blues Legend Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets plus 2014 Blues Foundation Award winner Lurrie Bell and his Chicago Blues Band. Guitar legend Jimmie Vaughan, brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan, will return to the festival for his second headline performance. Vaughan is far more than just one of the greatest and most respected guitarists in the world of popular music. Since releasing his first solo album in 1994, he has set the standard for quality modern roots music. Jimmie’s band features Texas singing legend Lou Ann Barton, a founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds. Jimmie and Lou Ann’s potent vocal chemistry shines in their music. Yet for all his accomplishments and the admiration he has earned, Jimmie Vaughan remains modest when it comes to his life and work. “I’m just trying to have fun like everyone else,” he concludes. “I’ve been playing since I was 13. I play every day. I’ve never stopped. I can’t imagine that I could exist without it.” Rick Derringer has had a long and prolific music career that began at the age of 17 when his band, The McCoys, had a number one hit single with “Hang on Sloopy.” A longtime member of Johnny Winters’ band in the 1970s, Rick’s solo career began with a bang when his single “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo” reached hit status in 1973. Derringer’s career has been a long journey of successes as a Grammy Award winning producer, songwriter, and player. In 2009, Rick released a display of blues talent on Knighted by the Blues, featuring wife Jenda as co-writer on several songs. In 2010, Rick released an amazing compilation of Freddie, Albert and B.B. King on The Three Kings of the Blues. Eric Gales is a left-handed guitar player and singer who has been called “One of the best, if not the best, guitarists in the world

by Gary Krell

East Texas music fans are in for a special treat when the T-Bone Walker Blues Fest brings some of the finest practitioners of blues and rock guitar art to Longview, headlined by the afformentioned Jimmie Vaughan. Joining Vaughan on the program will be guitar masters Rick Derringer, Eric Gales, Lurrie Bell, Anson Funderburg, and Tommy Katona. And this is the short list. Add ivory tickler Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, harp ace Steve Krause, and vocalists Tony Joe White, Trudy Lynn, and John McVey ... Well, music fans should be transported to cloud nine. On stage with Jimmie Vaughan will be Austin blues vocalist Lou Ann Barton. Vaughan, Barton, and their Tilt-AWhirl band are currently concluding a 10-performance summer European festival tour that opened July 7 in London and concluded July 20 in Peer, Belgium. The group will headline the Calabogie Blues Festival in Ontario, Canada, in August before making their stop in Longview to close Saturday’s performance. Heading the Saturday night Patterson Nissan outdoor stage will be blues PineyWoodsLive.com

today.” Eric has developed a unique hybrid blues/rock sound that also draws upon influences as diverse as Albert King and Eric Johnson. A unique amalgam of styles, Eric Gales stands head and shoulders among other guitarists in his genre. Eric will spend most of August touring in Brazil before a swing through Texas and Oklahoma before embarking on the Jimmy Hendrix Tour in late September. The depth and breadth of the musical talent the festival is bringing to Longview spans the blues music genre. In addition to Derringer, Vaughan, Bell and Funderburgh, also appearing will be The Stratoblasters & Jimmie Wallace, Eddie “The Chief” Clearwater, Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne, Cool John Ferguson, Texas Flood, Trudy Lynn with Steve Krase, John McVey & The Stumble, The Alan Fox Band, Tyler Lenius Band, Dagnabit, The Peterson Brothers Band and the Matthew Davidson Band. T-Bone Walker Blues Fest, Inc. President Nick Emiliani says, “We are very pleased with how the lineup has come into place, with the proper blend of styles, from traditional blues onward, that will appeal to a broad audience. And we will have a number of young performers, who are carrying on the blues tradition, like the Petersons, Lenius and Davidson.” 2014 will be the ninth year for the festival, which is named for Linden native and blues icon T-Bone Walker and has previously been held in Walker’s hometown. Early this year the festival’s governing board began seeking a location with a larger venue that would allow expansion of the festival beyond the 400 seat Music City Texas auditorium in Linden. Longview’s Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Complex was selected as the new home late in January. Festival Executive Director Rick Howell says the Longview venue offers what is needed to put the event on an upward path. “We think that our partnership with the City of Longview and having the larger convention center available will allow us to take the festival to the next higher level, something it really deserves.” In addition to an indoor stage at the 40,000 square-foot Maude Cobb Convention Center, which will seat 2500 fans, the festival will include an outdoor stage with lawn chair seating on the grassy field of the complex. A Saturday car show on the festival grounds is also being planned, along with food vendors for both Friday and Saturday. More information is available on the festival website at www.tbonewalkerbluesfest. com or by following the event on Facebook.

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(inside) 11:00pm - 12:00am Rick DeRRingeR 9:45pm - 10:45pm eRic gALes TRio 8:00pm - 9:15pm LuRRie BeLL’s chicAgo BLues BAnD WiTh eDDy “The chief” cLeARWATeR 6:45pm - 7:45pm kenny “BLues Boss” WAyne 5:30pm - 6:30pm cooL John feRguson 4:15pm – 5:15pm TyLeR Lenius BAnD 4:00 pm – 4:10pm BeRniTA WALkeR fesTivAL oPening

Patterson nissan stage (outdoor) 10:45pm – 12:00am TexAs fLooD 9:15pm - 10:30pm chRis cAin BAnD 8:00pm – 9:00pm MATTheW DAviDson BAnD 6:45pm - 7:45pm John Mcvey & The sTuMBLe 5:55pm – 6:35pm PLeAsAnT hiLL QuiLTing gRouP 4:45pm – 5:45pm DAgnABBiT BAnD 4:35pm BeRniTA WALkeR fesTivAL oPening

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(inside) 10:45pm - 12:00am JiMMie vAughAn & The TiLT-A-WhiRL BAnD WiTh Lou Ann BARTon 9:30pm - 10:30pm Rick DeRRingeR BAnD 8:00pm - 9:15pm TBD 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm JiMMie WALLAce & The sTRAToBLAsTeRs 5:30pm - 6:30pm kenny “BLues Boss” WAyne 4:15pm - 5:15pm Anson funDeRBuRgh & The RockeTs 3:00pm – 4:00pm cooL John feRguson 2:30pm - 2:55pm PLeAsAnT hiLL QuiLTing gRouP 1:25pm – 2:25pm TRuDy Lynn WiTh sTeve kRAus 12:10pm – 1:10pm TBD 12:00pm – 12:10pm BeRniTA WALkeR WeLcoMe

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(outdoor) 11:00pm – 12:00am eRic gALes TRio 9:45pm – 10:45pm Anson funDeRBuRgh & The RockeTs 8:30pm – 9:30pm chRis cAin BAnD 8:00pm – 8:30pm LuRRie BeLL WiTh eDDy “The chief” cLeARWATeR 6:45pm – 7:45pm LuRRie BeLL’s chicAgo BLues BAnD 5:30pm – 6:30pm The PeTeRson BRoTheRs BAnD 4:15pm – 5:15pm The ALAn fox BAnD 3:00pm - 4:00pm ALLy venABLe BAnD 1:45pm - 2:45pm gLenn Mckenzie BAnD 12:30pm – 1:30pm DeATh RoW BoDeen 12:20pm – 12:30pm BeRniTA WALkeR WeLcoMe August 2014 - Page 17

by Jeremy G. Butler

here’s an old saying about the formula for success that goes something like: fi nd something that’s already successful, do that, and turn a profit. And it works! Especially in the music industry. Entire decades have been characterized by the musical style that kicked them off, and there is a long list of bands that carried that music through the years and made millions in the process. It’s a pretty good formula. But if you look back on those decades, you’ll fi nd that while there were countless acts that briefly set the world on fi re, the ones that passed the test of time – the ones we still talk about - were the ones that were more concerned with making art, or a statement, or an impact – anything but money. That’s the thing about success – it means different things to different people. And when it comes to 19-year-old East Texan Jaden Farnsworth, it took one degree of success to send her off chasing in a somewhat different direction. The oldest of four children, Jaden came into her musicality extremely early. Her family discovered her voice at the age of three, she discovered songwriting at the age of seven, and the rest, as they say, is history. Not exactly, that’s a cheesy cliché – BUT even so, she was defi nitely on her way. Before long she started playing shows – so many of them in fact that her siblings ended up getting bored with going – and at 14, she started writing the songs that would become her fi rst album. And like most fi rst albums do, it changed her life. Titled Heart Sing, it was born of a one-record deal with a small label out of Oklahoma and wound up being a solid debut collection of swishy pop-country songs that not only reflected its influences but did a decent job of standing alongside them. Honestly, you’d be hard pressed to tell much of a difference between the highlights on the disc and a lot of the hits on the radio. For all intents and purposes, it was a success. But the problem is, it was the label’s version of success, not Jaden’s. And while she was obviously very proud of the work she’d done – again, that album was a collection of songs she’d written between the ages of 14 and 16 – it made her realize who SHE wanted to be as an artist. And while her looks and her voice draw a few obvious parallels to other notable chanteuses, she’s already started to break out of that mold. After all, who wants to be the next Taylor Swift when you can be the fi rst Jaden Farnsworth? And that brings us to now. Demonstrating the sort of work ethic that got her this far, she’s already got enough new material together that she’s staring down the barrel of another album release. And from what little she’s released from her new direction, it sounds like she’s using the momentum in very effective ways. In the meantime though, she’s still playing shows, and if you have the opportunity to catch one, you defi nitely should. Her siblings have even come around and started actually bringing their friends along. She’s still got a way to go, but she’s absolutely poised to get there on her own terms. And that’s just about as successful as it gets.

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CheyAne by B b Ben V Valencia l i I grew up in the small town of Ore City just up the way on Hwy. 259. It’s a town of a little over 1000 people, and it was challenging at times to fi nd things to do as a young person. One thing I always looked forward to were the talent shows we had at school. The woman I am about to introduce to you was a participant in most of those talent shows. I have actually heard her sing at several different events. Her voice is as soothing as a whippoorwill’s cry in the tall cyprus trees and sometimes powerful and emotionally direct, as if we are back in time listening to Etta James. Chances are, you have probably heard her voice wooing a full house at the Gladewater Opry, or you may have seen one of her videos on YouTube. Her faith in God is an important part of her personality. She will tell you that God has given her life-changing opportunities through her music. So, ladies and gentleman, I introduce to you, CheyAne Smith Ford.

What is your style of music? Country/ Gospel/ Soul/ Contemporary Christian. I can sing a little bit of everything but anything with some soul would probably be my favorite!

Have you written any of your own songs? Yes, I have actually written several. I absolutely love to write. It is my release!

Do you play any instruments? I play a little on the keyboard by ear, mostly for songwriting. I used to occasionally strum on the guitar and thump a little bass, but my favorite to play is actually percussion. I love to mess around on a drum set. After all, what is music without the beat? It’s great stress relief too! When it’s come time for a show and really performing on stage though, I prefer to feature my vocals and actually be able to move around. It’s important to work the crowd. You have to please your audience. The people make concerts possible and I adore my fans!

Do you have a role model? That’s hard to say ... I’ve never really wanted to “model” myself after anyone but Jesus Christ, but I suppose if I had to choose one person I honestly admire and respect in the Country/Gospel music industry, that would be Martina McBride. She is truly a classy woman of God.

Where have you performed? I have performed all over the U.S. and have actually considered even traveling overseas at some point to put on shows for our troops. My favorite place so far though has been the Grand Palace in Branson, MO. The most unique place I have ever performed would be the General Jackson Show Boat while floating down the river in Nashville, TN, where I sang a few songs on the Shotgun Red show featured on RFTV. Very neat!

Have you recorded any CDs? Yes, in fact, I cut my fi rst album at only 10 years old and have been recording ever since. I can’t wait to continue with my latest, which will actually contain many of my very own originals! PineyWoodsLive.com

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I have been singing since I could talk. I fi rst started in front of people at the little country church I attended with my family as a child, Smyrna United Methodist, between Ore City and Harleton. Before my dad passed away, he made me promise him that I would never quit singing. When I was eight years old, I watched him fade away from cancer on May 22, 2000. The Lord ignited a passion inside my heart for music that I could never really explain. I just try my best to express it through song. I began vocal lessons later that year at JoySound Music Studio in Longview. When I was about nine, I started performing over at the local Gladewater Opry. It was the perfect place to get comfortable on stage and really begin to let loose as an entertainer as well. At 10, I recorded my fi rst CD and before I knew it I was traveling to Nashville and Branson to record and do shows and participate in nationwide singing contests. Through the years, I have recorded several CDs and demos and enjoyed opening for many major recording artists such as Mickey Gilley, Mel Tillis, Merle Haggard, Moe Bandy, John Anderson, T. Graham Brown, the Bellamy Brothers, Tony Booth, Johnny Rodriguez, Aaron Watson, Kevin Fowler, Johnny Bush, Eddie Raven and many more. I usually open for country, gospel or Texas Country artists. I will actually be opening up for the band Restless Heart this month on July 25 at the Arlington Music Hall. I also sing for many private parties and events as the main entertainment, such as wedding receptions, health expos, motorcycle rallies, cancer benefits like the Relay for Life, March of Dimes, Buddy Walk and many other local and nationwide charities. I’m really not worried about ever “making it big.” I honestly just love to sing. God has allowed me to have amazing, life changing opportunities through my music. I have made many unforgettable memories. My dad may not have been around all these years, but I am so thankful to have my wonderful mother who has always supported me and continues to this very day! Even though I’m grown and have my awesome husband Garret Ford by my side, she still tries to make it to every show. Thank you Mama! I love you more than words! You’re my hero! My prayer is that, God willing, one day I will be able to be a part of something so much greater than simply “being famous” but to actually be the change I want to see in this world. One day at a time, I just want to touch other lives through music. That is the gift God gave me. What a shame it would be to waste. Life could have left me bitter, but through Christ I believed it would get better. I just want to share that message with the world as Jessica Reedy does in her song entitled “Better.” We can all make a difference in some way. I’m ready to today. August 2014 - Page 19

But Pretty Unconfused, All Things Considered by Jacob Mauldin If you live in East Texas’ Piney Woods and d n don’t know about Whitehouse’s homegrown band Dazed, then you must be an agorapho-bic shut-in. These kiddos have that hard-working James Brown ethic for showbiz. I seee their name plastered at every venue in town.. Once I even showed up for a chili cook-offf n fundraiser for a volunteer fi re department in d Judson, and these guys were rocking a field full of people in tents more interested in tast-h ing beans than hearing three teenagers crush “Space Truckin’” by Deep Purple and “Faer-ies Wear Boots” by Sabbath. But no matter what the gig, Dazed alwayss brings their A-game. Their sets, comprised al-most exclusively of heavy, groovy psychedelicc 70s rock covers, are always incredibly tightt but simultaneously loose and fun – the guyss n often constructing play lists on the fly or even taking random requests from the crowd. Thiss n is probably the only cover band I’ve ever seen who could deliver “Freebird” if you were ac-tually annoying enough to yell out the mostt p tired and humorless joke in the history of pop culture. And when a three piece band playss “Freebird” well, you know you’ve seen some-thing. Part of what makes Dazed so paradoxical-ly tight yet loose is that they know these dif-h ficult songs like you know your way through the living room at midnight with the lightss y out. Every single time I’ve heard them play ” Grand Funk’s “We’re An American Band,” one of my all-time favorite songs, there’s al-ways something different about it. Caleb putss a new hitch in the bass line, or Drew plays offf the ride cymbal instead of the cowbell duringg the bridge, or Lance puts a new group of lickss in the guitar solo. They know the songs welll d enough that their performances transcend the songs themselves, their craft allowing thee song to become what it wants to be ratherr than just a simple jukebox version that’s closee enough for government work. Being able to interpret and deliver materiall this difficult would be braggable for a band off journeyman musicians in their 40s who havee spent decades making a career off their tunes,, August 2014 - Page 20

much less for kids this age. I saw them play this past weekend at the XL’N pool hall in Tyler and offered to buy them a beer before our interview. They declined. You see, they’re not even of legal age to drink. Guitarist Lance Hampton and drummer Drew Theiring are 20, and bassist Caleb Canon is 19. They’ve only been playing together for four years, and Lance, who shreds like a new John Deere, didn’t start guitar until he was 14. “Me and Hambone here,” Drew told me while jabbing Lance, “grew up together playing baseball, and [our manager] Dennis was our baseball coach. He knew I played drums, I guess. One night, he walked up while I was working concession, and he tells me he wants to jam. We made an odd pair. I looked like a skinhead, and he had this great big afro.” Things change. Nowadays Drew has hair halfway down his back while Lance recently cut his signature white-boy ‘fro. I didn’t even recognize him without the long curly hair that made him look like he’d stepped through a time warp from a 70s party at the Moon Tower in Austin. Caleb chimed in, “I saw Lance in a music store playing songs when we were 16, and I said, ‘Man. I want to play with you.’” “Caleb jams his tail off. So we got together and just jelled,” Drew leapt back in, Caleb seeming happy to let the wild man on the skins take lead in our conversation as he often does on vocals. Even though Caleb shares front vox duties, he seems unassuming and shy offstage, a stark contrast from the tall and lanky kid with the long Plastic Man arms he wraps around his bass like John Paul Jones. He was much more subdued during the interview than he usually is while stomping around in front of the amps. I wanted to know how they became so infatuated with this genre of music, and like so many of us who are passionate about the esoteric, they couldn’t really explain why they love the thing they love. Drew tried to verbalize the inception of the fascination, saying, “There used to be a place here in Tyler called Timeless Books and Music. No one ever went

in there, but they had a whole floor of old rock and roll on vinyl in crates. Cheap, good stuff. That’s where I got obsessed.” “We spent so much money there,” Lance added, laughing. “That era just has a cool sound to it,” Drew continued. “You get into the surface music, the music on the radio, and you keep digging and digging, and there’s so much good stuff to discover. A lot that wasn’t popular,” Caleb offered, and Drew agreed roundly. “I think that’s the real thing that’s so fascinating about this music is that you can never stop fi nding great new, old bands.” I love that this statement was said without a hint of irony. “I fi nd new stuff all the time from that era. Like have you ever heard of Captain Beyond or Dust?” Drew asked. I am very familiar with the mighty Captain, but he stumped me with Dust. “It was Marky Ramone’s band before the Ramones, and they sounded like Metallica, but in 1971.” This is why Dazed is so much fun to see play. It’s not just because they’re students of the craft, they’re students of the rich genre of rock on a whole. We spent most of the interview just talking about obscure bands or pointing out trivia to one another. It’s always humbling when someone half your age teaches you that before Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke were spinning their rock and roll fantasies in Bad Company, they were letting us know “it’s a-all right now” in Free. As much as I love classic rock – I’ll talk ZZ, Zep and AC/DC until you slow down at the intersection and push me out of your car – I was also very interested in where they were going with original material. Their fi rst self-titled release was a strong freshman effort with nine new songs that sound like never-before-heard unreleased Blue Cheer and Foghat demos someone unearthed in an auctioned storage unit. I was curious if they were going to continue in that direction, a direction obviously informed by their cover output, or if they have some new tricks up their sleeves.

“We don’t want to plan things out,” Caleb told me. “I think sometimes people plan so carefully they don’t let things evolve and change. Improvisation is a huge part of what we do live. There are times when we’ll make up stuff right on stage for five or ten minutes, and I think a huge part of what we write comes out of that.” I asked what some of their favorite songs are to play around with improvisationally, and I wasn’t terribly surprised to be told Led Zeppelin’s “Dazed and Confused.” I was curious if their love for this song was what inspired the naming of their band. After all, you probably couldn’t fit all the bands named after Black Sabbath songs into the Cotton Bowl. But they said christening themselves Dazed was just coincidental. With a humble John Lennon impersonation, Caleb told me, “We took that dazed feeling and rolled it into the band’s name; it just embodies everything we do.” Lance, chuckling, tossed in, “We were so dazed no one even remembers who came up with the names.” It’s great to see the younger generation still caring about the things you love. I read an interview recently with Blake Shelton in which he said, “Nobody wants to listen to their grandfather’s music.” At fi rst that made me really angry until I saw a meme on Facebook of Blake Shelton’s quote above a picture of Hank Williams III, whose response was simply, “Try again.” That put the silliness in perspective of Shelton’s myopic, sensational statement. This music, my grandfather’s music, isn’t going anywhere. Kids are still playing songs that were recorded 30, 40, 50 years ago because when art is done correctly, it’s timeless. The roof of the Sistine Chapel will always look like it was painted yesterday, and “Little Dreamer” by Van Halen will always sound like it was recorded yesterday as well. Caleb, Lance and Drew understand that. And for anyone who is unclear on this concept, you won’t need to listen to more than a 45 minute set from Dazed to understand it. PineyWoodsLive.com

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ast Texas Performing Arts (ETPA) is the result of Sara Whitaker’s lifetime devotion to theater arts. Sara is the founder, producer and executive director. ETPA was formed early in 2013 as a Texas non-profit corporation as an outgrowth of Sara’s original theatre company, Sanctuary Players. ETPA is the formal entity formed to expand and build awareness and participation in the performing arts in East Texas. Operating for two years and successfully completing seven stage productions, initial success made it obvious that the performing arts were growing and had a future in East Texas. In order to be a leader in this trend, Sanctuary Players had to expand their horizons. Step one in this expansion was the formation of East Texas Performing Arts. ETPA’s fi rst production was a fundraising concert by Lacie Carpenter and the Southern String Line in February 2013. Today ETPA produces theatrical stage plays in all genres, comedy, drama, musical, and classical. Music concerts focus on young, up and coming talent. Sara teaches acting, movement, public speaking, and choreography. Productions are already underway this summer with several performances from July through August. You still have time to catch some or all of them.

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THE THROW WAW WAY CHILDREEN Written with a Christian world view, this original drama highlights the ongoing global crisis of human trafficking. “Twenty-seven million slaves; more than any other time in the history of the planet,” are the opening lines of The Throwaway Children. Featuring eight East Texas youth, audiences will walk away with hope, despite becoming aware of the harsh and traumatic effects slavery has on its victims. Mercy and grace are extended to the perpetrators and their victims in this play, written, directed, and choreographed by Sara Whitaker. Human trafficking affects the affluent and the poverty stricken in both rural and urban areas. Though this play presents difficult material, it offers a redemptive solution. In God’s eyes, there is hope for all people. The men and women who have fallen into prostitution still have value and purpose.

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PUR POSE-M ISSSION N Dedicated to developing community appreciation for and participation in, drama and musical arts by sponsoring amateur and professional presentations such as plays, musicals, concerts, festivals and to providing performing arts education opportunities to the general public. East Texas Performing Arts, Inc. is a non-profit under the laws of the State of Texas and a federal 501c3 corporation. August 2014 - Page 25

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ith a new start for a new decade, Jason Richards was named as general manager and artistic director of Longview’s ArtsView Children’s Theatre beginning August 4. Having just celebrated its 10th anniversary, the ArtsView Children’s Theatre is one of Texas’ most exciting and successful children’s theater programs. It not only offers the chance to sing and dance and act on stage, it helps children and adults to develop important life skills. The company’s motto is “Changing lives through education, outreach, and the performing arts.” “I believe in ArtsView’s mission statement,” Richards said. “I believe in showing kids in our community they can express themselves in a positive way. I believe in showing them how to pick their heads up to look away from their electronic devices and become a part of something important. I believe in showing them how to relate to other people.” A graduate of Hallsville High School, Jason Richards also graduated from Kilgore College. He earned his bachelor of fi ne arts degree in directing from Baylor University. While at Baylor University, he studied with Dr. Steven Peters. “Dr. Peters spoke highly about the theater program at the main campus at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. I auditioned and was fortunate enough to be accepted there,” he said. There he earned his master of fi ne arts degree in acting. August 2014 - Page 26

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He was part of the Texas Repertory Theatre in Houston, worked with the Houston Grand Opera, the Renaissance Repertory Theatre, the Gaslight Theatre, The Roxy Regional Theatre, the St. Croix Festival Theatre, the Jewel Box Theatre, and the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. For the past 12 years he has participated in the Kilgore Shakespeare Festival, not only as an actor but also as an arts administrator, director and playwright. His new and original plays for young people were staged by the Shakespeare Festival. Quest for the Lost Chalice was produced in 2012, The Enchanted Forest was produced in 2013 and his most recent play, The Lost Prince, was produced in 2014. Since he is a native of East Texas, Richards is familiar with the particular needs of the community. His position as general manager and executive director may be new to the group, but he has taken an active part in ArtsView since 2010 when he fi rst acted the role of Mark Twain in a production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He recently directed the theater’s production of the popular musical The Sound of Music. “ArtsView has such a positive spirit,” Richards explained. “It sponsors that positive spirit not only in the adults who work there and in the volunteers who are hard at work behind the scenes but also in all the kids who participate. Everyone comes away feeling better for having been there. The children who have been part of the ArtsView program develop a passion for the arts.”

He expressed gratitude for the many dedicated volunteers who are such an important part of the theater and of the community. They give freely of their time and their energies to make ArtsView productions possible. “When I’m there, I feel like I’m doing something worthwhile and that they believe in me. The people of ArtsView have become my friends. We work together, and we care for each other. I have become part of a community. I know what’s going on, and I have the advantage of knowing how they work and why they work so hard. Everyone understands I am not coming in as the ‘new sheriff in town.’ I understand what a wonderful job they have been doing, and I want to continue on the path they have set out.” When the position became available, a search committee of founders, former board members and current board members took on the difficult task of interviewing a number of candidates. After carefully considering all of the applicants, they chose Jason Richards because of his outstanding energy, his professionalism, and his knowledge and experience in theater. Since he had taken such an active part in working with the organization, he already knew how the group functioned, what its goals and directions were, and how to make them happen.

The official description of the theater’s goals state that it was organized “to nurture the development of the performing arts in our community by creating, producing, and performing works that engage people of all ages.” In the spirit of touching the community with “giving, entertaining and encouraging,” they offer year-round performances for and by children and adults. ArtsView conducts four Main Stage Productions as well as spring, summer, and winter camp performances every year. The ArtsView Players Show Choirs bring entertainment to various community organizations. Free Super Saturday Workshops offer introductory courses. There is a fee assistance program so that no child is excluded because of a family’s finances. By providing live theater, ArtsView has created “A place where the stars will shine for East Texas children and where ACTING UP IS ALWAYS FUN!” “I want to make sure that all those things ArtsView has been doing right continue to be as good in the future as they have been for the past 10 years. I enjoy being a part of ArtsView because the kids are just so excited about it,” Richards said. “I like introducing that world to kids who will get to grow up appreciating the theater.” For more information about ArtsView programs and upcoming events, please call the theater at 903-236-7535. PineyWoodsLive.com

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Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes, Nothing remains quite the same. Through all of the islands and all of the highlands, If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane “Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes” by Jimmy Buffett

It’s summertime and many of you are thinking about spending some time away. So it seems appropriate to use a song about vacation and travel for this month. “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” is a song written and recorded by the mayor of Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett. It was first released as the title song on his 1977 album. It reached number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 24 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and number 11 on the Easy Listening chart. The phrase “and son of a bitches” was edited out of the single version of the song and replaced with “some bruises, some stitches.” I am sitting in Southern Colorado as I write this while on an extended vacation in the mountains to do some fishing, hiking, hanging out and maybe a little music. While music is one of the centers of my life, it is not the only one. In fact, to focus on one thing only is not good for me mentally or creatively. I think you might find that is true for you as well. Ah vacation, we love it! We fantasize about it, dream about it, endlessly plan it and love, love, love to be on it. Yes, even a vacation from music. As the saying goes, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” I believe that is a true statement. I find that being away from home, work and the “grind” of habit frees my creative juices like nothing else. I don’t have to plan on inspiration; I simply know it will happen. Away from my ritual patterns, my muse seems endlessly ready to create – it seems to act as a creative palette cleanser for me. PineyWoodsLive.com

So before I get a dozen or so comments about having to make a living and not having time for some silly vacation, let me explain that a vacation doesn’t have to be some big deal thing that costs a lost of money and takes a lot of time. Simply do something you wouldn’t normally do. Do you watch TV in your spare time? If so, take a walk instead, read a book or go take a nap in the hammock. Even a small change in latitude can trigger big attitude changes. Art is about looking at life and situations from new and different points of view. I can get many new ideas from even a tiny change in scenery with its accompanying experiences that includes the bad stuff like flat tires, broken pipes, airline travel headaches and high gas prices. Inspiration is where I find it, and I find it is often easier to recognize it in the context of a new latitude. Sometimes being somewhere else can make you appreciate “the grind” of the familiar. I will admit that vacation isn’t always relaxing and, in fact, sometimes it is a relief to get home and reenter the daily “same old same old.” The old adage, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” tends to be true even with with the things we think we might never miss. The distance provided from a vacation helps us see the world back home more objectively. That objectivity will point the way to changes that can improve even the most humdrum of existences. With a little luck, it may also pave the way for a new song or other artistic endeavors. Life is change, and our choice is to embrace it or fight it. There really isn’t any other alternative. I have found that vaca-

tions facilitate change for me. They give me distance and a clarity that help me process big change. Vacations don’t solve anything, but the idea of even temporarily losing my normal groove can be creatively powerful. I do find that the older I get the harder it is to break out of my habits, even temporarily. It seems that somehow age has made me less flexible and less receptive to change. But still, I continue to fight with myself so I can remain fresh, or at the very least, not get stale. Not getting stale, it seems to me, is one of the biggest challenges for an artist and a performing artist in particular. That would be due to the fact that it is a part of our job to keep performing our creations over and over again. I always find that taking a vacation from performance helps me stay fresh and keeps me from getting bored with myself and my performance. I will admit that I easily get bored with performing the same songs with the same arrangement and inflections in the same sequence night after night. In fact, I almost never repeat a song sequence twice. The reason behind that is simply so that I will stay interested. I would like to point out that when I am on vacation it is not a vacation from art. Instead of constantly pushing myself to write, I might learn a few new cover tunes in styles that I might not normally try. I might take a few gigs as a sideman, playing behind someone instead of running the show. That way I can stretch out musically and have to force myself to play new and unfamiliar music. Scary? Sure it is, but that is how I grow – by embracing change.

So don’t think of vacation as turning your back on work. Rather, it is an opportunity to enhance your work, to access it, to make it fresh again and most of all, to take on change. I love what I do. I love performing, writing songs, writing this column, and meeting other artists and new fans. I love the business in general. But that does not mean I don’t need time away. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” is absolutely true. So take a vacation. Vacate your habits at least for a couple of days. It doesn’t have to cost anything. Just drive to another town and hang out at a friend’s house, sleep on the couch rather than in your own bed at home, go to a jazz show if you are a country artist or attend a sculpture exhibit instead of music. Whatever you do on that vacation, try hard to break the mold. Find that change in latitude wherever and whenever you can. I think you will find it can do wonders for you, mentally and creatively. Send comments and complaints to randy@brownrandy.com See you next month.

Randy Brown is a full-time singer/songwriter living in East Texas and has been involved with many sides of the music business over the years, from being a sideman, a sound man, touring songwriter, producer, venue operator, and a recording studio owner/engineer. He writes this column as much for himself as anyone else. His changes in latitude often cause changes in attitude that often seem to head in a totally wrong direction. August 2014 - Page 29

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