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4----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com- ------------------------------------------------------------September 20, ’12 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: 3 Rivers Co-op Natural Grocery & Deli....................... 12 20 Past 4 and More...................................................... 31 Alley Sports Bar............................................................. 21 all for One Productions/A Peculiar People.................... 27 Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery.............................. 27 Beamer’s Sports Grill.................................................... 12 Berlin Music Pub............................................................. 14 Bluffton Street Fair......................................................... 3 C2G Live........................................................................... 10 Calhoun Street Soups, Salads & Spirits................... 15 Cancer Services of N.E. 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ADVERTISING Call 260-691-3188 for rates or e-mail info.whatzup@gmail.com. ------------------------------ Cover Story • Kip Moore------------------------------ The Silverado to Success By Evan Gillespie Kip Moore’s dad almost certainly gets the credit for pointing his son toward a career as a collegiate golfer, but he might also get the credit – and at this point, it looks like it’s credit rather than blame – for planting the seeds that ultimately derailed that career. If he hadn’t let his son listen to so darn much good music when he was growing up, Kip Moore might be a golf pro right now, instead of a guy with a No. 1 single and a hot debut album. “He would play a lot of Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Bob Seger, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen,” Moore says as he recalls riding around in his dad’s 1988 Silverado pickup. “As early as I can remember, I always gravitated toward lyrics. Even when I hadn’t lived enough to understand them, they still shaped me.” He was clearly being shaped, because those songwriters were pushing him toward his future career, and the Silverado was installing itself as the inspiration for his first hit single. At the moment, though, all he thought he was doing was going fishing with his dad so that he’d have something to do, a goal that could be a challenge to meet in his hometown of Tifton, Georgia. “When you are from a small town like I am, there’s not a whole lot to do,” he explains. “You have to make your own fun, and there’s a whole lot of sitting in fields and a whole lot of Bud Light and fishing poles.” Most small town kids can’t wait to get out, and most aspiring country singers who do get out can’t wait to get back. All that would prove to be true for Moore, but the first step was the getting out. Initially, it looked like the opportunity for escape would come through college athletics. Moore’s dad was a golf pro, and Moore had his share of talent in the sport. He spent two years playing golf at Wallace State Community College in Alabama, then transferred to Valdosta State University back in Georgia on a golf scholarship. Unfortunately, Moore found out quickly that athletics and professional musicianship don’t mix well. He’d begun playing his brother’s guitar (the first song he learned to KIP MOORE w/THE FARM Wednesday, Sept. 26 • 7 p.m. DeKalb County Free Fall Fair Main Stage, Downtown Auburn Admission: Free www.dekalbcountyfair.org play was The Band’s “The Weight”), and by the time he was in college he was playing regularly at local clubs. “I was out till three or four in the morning playing these bars, and I didn’t have the energy to get up at six and do golf practice,” he told USA Today. “I ended up saying, ‘My heart’s in this, and it’s not in playing golf.’ So I dropped the scholarship.” Still, even with more time on his hands to devote to playing, he wasn’t exactly setting the music business on fire. He was in a band that was playing regionally and making some money, but it was looking like Moore hadn’t managed to get far enough away from Tifton, at least not yet. So after graduation, he headed far away – to Hawaii. Moore and a friend landed in Hawaii with not much more than a backpack and a surfboard. They spent their first night sleeping on a bench in the airport, and then they got lucky and found a “hut” that only cost them $50 a month. It was a long way from Georgia, and it was paradise. But Moore couldn’t stop thinking about music, and conversations on the topic with his friend made him begin to rethink his plan for the future. “I didn’t know a whole lot about the world of songwriting,” Moore says. “I just did it for my own enjoyment. We talked about Nashville, and I ended up saying, ‘I’m going to give it a shot.’ I flew back home and told my folks. They thought I was crazy. Now they’ll say different, that they knew all along.” The wisdom of the decision wasn’t immediately obvious because it would take four years of songwriting and playing around Nashville before Moore caught the attention of someone who mattered. Always the minimalist traveler, he hit town at the beginning of 2004 in a Nissan pickup with a guitar and a single bag. Four years later he was noticed by agent Marc Dennis who managed to get him a deal with MCA Nashville. The resulting debut album made Moore into one of Nashville’s most infamous products, the years-in-the-making overnight success. It had taken years of hard work to achieve, but when the success hit, it hit like lightning. The album, Up All Night, debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s country album chart and sold 58,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. Those sales were driven by the success of the album’s first single, “Somethin’ ’Bout a Truck,” which eventually reached the top of Billboard’s country singles chart. Moore had come full circle, via the golf course and Hawaiian beaches back to Georgia, where he’d made fond memories by borrowing that old Silverado to go on dates. “I think anybody that comes from a small town has lived that song,” he says. “I lived that song 5,000 times growing up. It’s real hot in south Georgia, so all of the girls were wearing sundresses. It was all you needed back then – a truck bed, a radio and good company with you.” Now, thanks to that truck, Moore has the career he’s always wanted. He’s a songwriter, collaborating with the likes of Dan Couch, Westin Davis and Kiefer Thompson of Thompson Square (two Thompson-Moore songs made it onto Thompson Square’s debut album, and a third, “Drive Me Crazy,” is the opening track of Moore’s Up All Night). Moore is also making a name for himself as an authentic blue-collar singer/songwriter, prompting Music Row magazine’s Robert Oermann to call him the “hillbilly Springsteen.” The praise is huge, the record sales satisfying, but it’s the future that Moore’s focused on. He’s had some success, but he knows there’s still a lot that he hasn’t done or seen. He’s not sure what’s ahead, but he’s optimistic, and whatever comes, he seems ready to meet it. “I have truly lived my music to a sense, even the milestones I haven’t reached yet,” he says. “I have been in those moments. I’ve been at those crossroads with a girl: ‘Are we going to take that next step’ I look forward to taking that next step, but I haven’t wanted to yet. I look forward to being ready for that.”
September 20, ’12- ------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 ----------------------- Feature • Fran Cosmo---------------------- Life Beyond Boston By Deborah Kennedy Imagine, if you will, 1980. It was the year of The Empire Strikes Back, Raging Bull and Nine to Five. Also of Mt. Saint Helens and the Post-it ® Note. That ame year, we found out who shot J.R. We lso discovered that 24-hour news, courtesy f CNN, could lead to some pretty ridiculous rogramming. Another noteworthy happening rom that rich period in our country’s popular ulture was the fact that Fran Cosmo, otherwise nown as the former lead singer of Boston, got is first big music business break. In 1980, Cosmo (a.k.a. Francis Cosmo igliaccio) was approached by Barry Goureau, guitarist for Boston, about working on oudreau’s debut solo album. Cosmo jumped t the chance to work with Goudreau, and three ears later their collaboration led to the formaion of a new act, Orion the Hunter. The self-titled debut Cosmo and Goudreau eleased shortly thereafter might not have made rion the Hunter a household name, but it did ive radio listeners the hit single “So You Ran” nd scored the group a tour of the U.S. with erosmith for their Back in the Saddle tour. Cosmo’s collaboration with Goudreau also ot his foot in the door with Boston, at the time n unstoppable force in the world of classic ock, and seven years later Cosmo was invited o join Boston s lead singer, rad Delp havng left the band o pursue other FRAN COSMO w/PARADISE Thursday, Sept. 27 • 8 p.m. DeKalb County Free Fall Fair Main Stage, Downtown Auburn Admission: Free www.dekalbcountyfair.org rojects. (One f those projcts was fronting oudreau’s new and, RZT. Small orld, ain’t it) Cosmo, who ill take the stage Thursday, September 27 t the DeKalb County Free Fall Fair, took the elm on Boston’s fourth studio album, Walk On, hich dropped in 1994. And while the album id not chart as high as previous Boston efforts, t produced the single “I Need Your Love” and elped Cosmo solidify his status in the band. For the ext 10 years he toured with Boston, sharing vocal duies with Delp who returned to the group in 1995 in reparation for its Livin’ For You tour. Delp, who killed himself in 2007, was widely redited with helping Boston achieve its unique blend f hard and progressive rock. Big shoes to fill, in other ords, but Cosmo was undaunted, and threw himself nto his new role, both as solo frontman and as Delp’s ocal partner. Tom Scholz, the brains behind Boston and the and’s lead guitarist since its formation in the early 0s, said of Cosmo, “Fran has a really good ear for ecorded and live sound.” According to another of Cosmo’s former Boston andmates, that’s understating it just a bit. “Fran’s an easy going guy with a big heart,” said ary Pihl, Boston guitarist for the albums Third Stage, alk On, Greatest Hits and Corporate America. Nothing seems more important to him than family nd friends … He was born with such musical intinct. You can’t learn it. You can’t teach it, he’s just ot it. But Fran is one of those guys who is never happy with their performance. He always wants to make it better. He’ll have an incredible night, the crowd is jumping up and down for him, and he’ll turn to us and worry, ‘Did I sound okay’ “Fran doesn’t have a technical background, but if he says he’s hearing something wrong with a speaker on the other side of the stage, we go check it out. He’s got super hearing. Dogs ask him, ‘Did you hear something’” In 2006, Cosmo teamed up with his son, Anthony (who also became one of Boston’s rapidly rotating slate of guitarists), to form the band Cosmo, along with Bernie Garzio, Rusty Fouke, Mick Brooks and Tom Moonan. The group soon put out the noisy, melodic rock record Alien and has been touring ever since. Cosmo, who also sings with the World Classic Rockers, is currently hard at work on a new solo album and basking in the glow of the raves over the recent reissue of Orion the Hunter from Rock Candy Records. Classic Rock AOR Magazine gave the album a coveted nine out of 10 stars, which is saying something. The rag is notoriously hard to please. Cosmo, on the other hand, has a reputation for being a pretty laid back guy. He lives with his wife and daughter in upstate New York. He gets to play alongside his son in an internationally known rock band. And soon, he’ll be playing in our own backyard.
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