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Listen!<br />
Those infectious tones you hear are a sonic reflection of Eugene’s<br />
contemporary music scene. They’re the sounds of an<br />
intriguing medley combining Eugene’s rich, musical past<br />
with the rhythms of the town today...and harmonics<br />
heralding the city’s musical future.<br />
Consider Eugene history.<br />
In the 1970s, guitarist Mason Williams’ finger-picking popularity<br />
forever installed his song “Classical Gas” in Eugene’s<br />
metaphorical Music Hall of Fame. The Grateful Dead’s traveling<br />
circus found a spiritual home in blue-jean Eugene and in<br />
the grass fields surrounding the annual<br />
Oregon Country Fair. Composer-keyboard player Dan Siegel<br />
and guitarist Richard Smith made their marks on national<br />
jazz charts. And John Belushi belched up his post-Animal<br />
House, Blues Brothers routine—inspired by Curtis Salgado<br />
and Robert Cray gigs in the Eugene Hotel ballroom.<br />
Photo by Brian Lanker<br />
Cover Photo: The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies take the stage at<br />
the Cuthbert Amphitheater in Eugene’s Alton Baker Park.<br />
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The ‘80s served up a<br />
musical smorgasbord in<br />
Eugene. There was Reggae<br />
on the River, Cyril Neville’s<br />
jam performances at Jo<br />
Federigo’s, and a dominant<br />
barroom blues culture<br />
shepherded by KLCC<br />
showman Gavin “The<br />
Rooster” Fox. It was also a<br />
time of scandalous, teenage<br />
exploits by aspiring<br />
hometown grunge princess<br />
Courtney Love.<br />
Eugene of the ‘90s recalls<br />
a throng of seminal, West<br />
Coast punk bands—most<br />
raging through the WOW<br />
Photo by Brian Lanker<br />
Hall or now-defunct<br />
Icky’s Teahouse. A potent,<br />
underground rave scene<br />
featured turntablism by the<br />
emergent Raging Family.<br />
Some bands traversed the<br />
Eugene skyline like small<br />
meteors: LaZoo, Crazy<br />
8s, White Liberals. Other<br />
‘90s bands—Satin Love<br />
Orchestra, Floydian Slips,<br />
Renegade Saints, Cherry<br />
Poppin’ Daddies—retain<br />
their brilliance today.<br />
Now, in the wake of the<br />
millennium shift, new<br />
sounds and voices are<br />
intermingling with older<br />
favorites, breathing freshness<br />
and even greater<br />
diversity into Eugene’s<br />
ever-morphing, musical<br />
melting pot.<br />
“There’s an incredible<br />
wealth of talent in this tiny,<br />
wonderful, sleepy-hollow<br />
oasis of Eugene,” singer<br />
Shelley James effuses,<br />
“and a lot of musicians love<br />
it for that!”<br />
Cyndi Ingram, a booking<br />
agent with a skyrocket reputation<br />
for promoting the<br />
local band scene, agrees:<br />
“Eugene is amazingly<br />
diverse, and the musical<br />
Photo by David Loveall<br />
Top Right: Bill Harkleroad split the Southern California music scene in<br />
the late 1970s, settling on Eugene as a place to get sober, find a job<br />
and establish domestic security. His reach for transformation came on<br />
the back end of a decade of personal recording and performing notoriety,<br />
spun out of a five-year stint as a trendsetting guitarist for the obscure<br />
but highly influential experimental rock group<br />
Left: Singer-songwriter Halie Loren’s music inevitably draws comparisons<br />
to that of Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Jewel and<br />
other pop divas of the Lilith sisterhood. Never mind that Loren is only<br />
22. She is already a musical journeywoman with Nashville-bred chops,<br />
studio savvy and prestigious songwriting awards dating back through<br />
palate of the community<br />
is pretty sophisticated. It’s<br />
not uncommon for people<br />
to go to a death metal concert<br />
one night, and a few<br />
days later go out to a place<br />
like Sam Bond’s to listen to<br />
almost anything from folk<br />
to rock to jazz.”<br />
LocaL Favorites<br />
Eugene maintains a long<br />
roster of proletarian players—favorite<br />
sons and<br />
daughters synonymous with<br />
dedication to local music<br />
culture. Consider Laura<br />
Kemp, Marc Alan, The
Ovulators, Eagle Park Slim,<br />
J.C. Rico, Walker T. Ryan,<br />
Barbara Dzuro, Norma Fraser,<br />
Caliente and The Sugar<br />
Beets. And sidemen like<br />
Skip Jones, Byron Case and<br />
Paul Biondi.<br />
Similarly, there’s a wealth<br />
of venues. From the grandscale<br />
Hult Center to established<br />
and upstart clubs,<br />
Eugene is graced with stages<br />
of all shapes and sizes: Jo<br />
Federigo’s, Luna, Luckey’s,<br />
Sam Bond’s, the Vets Club,<br />
Jaxx, Downtown Lounge,<br />
the Black Forest, Samurai<br />
Duck, Cozmic Pizza, John<br />
Henry’s and the Wetlands,<br />
to name but a few.<br />
Yet in a community where<br />
concert popularity can be<br />
inversely proportional to<br />
moisture collected at the<br />
Deb Cleveland<br />
has one<br />
foot rooted in<br />
the Sundayschool<br />
gospel<br />
influences of<br />
her east Texas<br />
Baptist upbringing,<br />
the other in<br />
classic pop and<br />
rhythm-andblues<br />
songs<br />
from ‘60s AM<br />
radio.<br />
Photo by<br />
Brian Lanker<br />
Mahlon Sweet Airport<br />
weather station, warm season<br />
events reign supreme.<br />
There are established favor-<br />
ites: Art and<br />
the Vineyard,<br />
the Willamette<br />
Valley<br />
Folk Festival,<br />
the Oregon<br />
Country Fair,<br />
the Lane<br />
County Fair,<br />
the Eugene<br />
Celebration,<br />
Saturday<br />
Market. And<br />
there are newer additions a<br />
short drive from town: Cottage<br />
Grove’s new venue The<br />
Axe and Fiddle, the Springfield<br />
Summer Concerts, the<br />
spectacular Oregon Jamboree<br />
and vineyard events like<br />
the 2006 concerts at Secret<br />
House and LaVelle wineries.<br />
Until 2006, Cuthbert Am-<br />
“There’s an<br />
incredible wealth<br />
of talent in this<br />
tiny, wonderful,<br />
sleepy-hollow<br />
oasis of Eugene,”<br />
-- Shelley James<br />
phitheater<br />
in Alton<br />
Baker<br />
Park was<br />
a special<br />
musical<br />
environment<br />
suffering<br />
ill-favored<br />
status. To<br />
be blunt,<br />
Cuthbert<br />
simply wasn’t happening.<br />
But last year’s city government<br />
decision—to contract<br />
with private businesses for<br />
event management—has<br />
contributed to a renewed<br />
buzz.<br />
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Brendan Relaford of Big<br />
Green Events coordinates<br />
shows at the Cuthbert, as<br />
well as the McDonald Theatre<br />
and Eugene Celebration.<br />
Relaford is optimistic<br />
about the vitality of the<br />
local scene. “Live music is<br />
still undeniable,” he insists.<br />
“If there’s a healthy stock<br />
of good entertainment out<br />
there, at some point people<br />
latch on.”<br />
in the hot seat<br />
So who’s currently H-O-T<br />
in musical Eugene? And<br />
what’s buzz-worthy?<br />
Over a few short years,<br />
The Shedd has emerged<br />
as an influential, highly<br />
respected force. Its music<br />
classes boast more than 700<br />
students. The Now Hear<br />
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This series has introduced<br />
the intimate Jaqua Concert<br />
Hall to a who’s who of<br />
musical luminaries. Plans<br />
are now afoot to expand the<br />
Shedd Presents series into<br />
a regular showcase, pairing<br />
local stars with lesserknown<br />
national talents.<br />
“I’m hoping we’re leaders,”<br />
says Ginevra Ralph,<br />
Shedd’s director of education.<br />
“It’s very important<br />
that we’re filling a niche<br />
that hasn’t been filled<br />
before.”<br />
Half a mile west, the WOW<br />
Hall holds down an equally<br />
impressive corner of the<br />
music scene with its slant<br />
towards all-ages hip-hop<br />
and punk shows. Program<br />
director Mike Hergenreter<br />
attributes much of the<br />
Hall’s success to non-conventional<br />
booking, underscoring<br />
the WOW’s 30-year<br />
legacy of staging “whatever<br />
is upcoming, cool or hip.”<br />
A different kind of hot is<br />
Eugene’s growing list of<br />
artists primed for national<br />
exposure. Count among<br />
them guitarist/composer<br />
Justin King, drummer<br />
James West and singer/<br />
songwriters Halie Loren<br />
and Mat Kearny.<br />
How about smokin’ variations<br />
on rock-and-roll? Give<br />
an ear to the tango-rock<br />
fusion of Mood Area 52 or<br />
the aggressive, politically<br />
Jerry Garcia played to a maniacal<br />
crowd when the Grateful<br />
Dead performed near<br />
Eugene in summer 1982.<br />
Photo by Brian Lanker
charged anthems of Dead<br />
Americans. Jam band favorite<br />
Reeble Jar repeatedly<br />
packs in fans. Eleven Eyes<br />
showcases original, hiphop-influenced<br />
jazz. Disco<br />
Organica earns kudos for<br />
its funk-a-fied groove rock.<br />
And the Ginger Hustlers<br />
proffer quirky, psychedelic<br />
“gothabilly.”<br />
If there’s a standout trend<br />
on the club scene, the banner<br />
is being carried by a<br />
parade of hard-working, politically<br />
engaged, businesssavvy<br />
bands.<br />
There’s also a trend exploring<br />
theme-driven performance<br />
series. <strong>Example</strong>s<br />
include the recent, highly<br />
successful GRRRRLZ Rock<br />
series, the upcoming KIDZ<br />
Rock series and the first<br />
Eugene Women’s Music<br />
Festival, scheduled for this<br />
summer.<br />
The local Musicians As-<br />
sociation has cast an eye<br />
toward innovative music<br />
projects—especially those<br />
fostering partnership with<br />
businesses and government.<br />
According to union officer<br />
Violetta Tarpinian, immediate<br />
plans include a series of<br />
free community jazz shows<br />
in April, staged as part of<br />
National Jazz Month.<br />
And so, the Eugene beat<br />
goes on.<br />
When it comes to variety<br />
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and innovation, passion and<br />
promise, sophistication and<br />
soul, the vibrant sounds<br />
of Eugene’s contemporary<br />
music scene are irrepressible.<br />
They echo from the<br />
core of Eugene’s reputation<br />
for the arts and its clarion<br />
call to music lovers.<br />
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Photo by Brian Lanker<br />
Vintage Guitar Magazine has described Don Latarski as “a guitarist of great taste and chops.” Latarski’s fluid, uniquely American<br />
style incorporates genres from jazz and blues to rockabilly and swing. He can serve up a plate of steaming Cajun funk on a<br />
Fender Stratocaster just as effortlessly as he dishes out Texas twang on an archtop acoustic.<br />
Latarski’s original melodies have been a staple of the Eugene music scene since the ‘70s, when he first began mixing it up<br />
with local players as his jazz-rock combo, Lon Guitarski, performed at prime local venues.<br />
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