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Shenandoah and Mark Chesnutt to star at TSU
By Christy Moore
Features Editor
"Two dozen roses and an older
bottle of wine....". If that sounds like
one of your Valentine's Day dreams,
find that special someone and bring
them to the Shenandoah and Mark
Chesnutt concert on February 14 at
TSU's Wisdom Gym.
Headlining the concert is Cash-
box magazine's County Vocal Group
of the Year, Shenandoah. The five-
man group has had such hit singles
as "Sunday in the South", "Church
on Cumberland Road" and "Two
Dozen Roses".
In the past three years, Shenan-
doah has gone from playing in night-
clubs in their hometown of Muscle
Shoals, Alabama, to working with
stars such as Randy Travis and
Tammy Wynette.
The sudden rise of fame didn't
surprise Marty Raybon, the group's
lead vocalist - it's all a matter of
harmony. He commented that "there
is as much harmony in the group
offstage as onstage". -.
Part of the closeness this group
feels is due to the fact that they all
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live in the community of Muscle
Shoals, Alabama, and are constantly
trying out new songs and ideas on
each otiter.
In addition to Raybon, Shenan-
doah consists of Mike McGuire,
drums; Ralph Ezell, bass; Jimmy
Scales, lead guitar, and Stan Thorn,
keyboards.
"If you want to know what we're
really like," Raybon said, "look at
our 'Sunday in the South' video. It
says more about us than anything
else - about the way we were brought
up and what our moral values are."
The video portrays small-town
life and the special place that family
and religion have in that way of life.
To stage the video, "We just
called all our friends. Lord! They
came in droves. It turned out to be
one big old picnic," Raybon said.
Shenandoah's latest album Ex-
tra Mile is aptly titled, not only be-
cause the group commonly spends
300 plus days per year on the road
but also because they try to "go the
extra mile" to bring quality country
music to their fans.
Mark Chesnutt, a 26-year-old
Beaumont, Texas, native will open
for Shenandoah at the Valentine's
Day concert
Chesnutt has been performing
country music since he began his
first band in junior high. He played
in and around Beaumont until his
late teens when he began making (he ,
club circuit.
"Mom and Daddy would bring
me out to a club where they knew the
band from back when he used to fool
with it, and I'd sit in and sing with
them. I started doing that a couple of
nights a week and they finally slatted
paying me. So I just stayed with it,"
he said.
He pursued his dream of singing
country music while he worked for a
trucking company and Montgomery
Ward to make ends meet Chesnutt
made several trips to Nashville dur-
ing these years but he wasn't knock-
ing on any doors, mainly because he
"didn't know which doors to go to".
Eventually, one of his singles,
'Too Cold At Home", reached Nash-
ville producer and MCA Records
executive Tony Brown.
"It's funny," Chesnutt said.
"Everybody comes to Nashville
trying to make it, and all of a sudden
Tony Brown, Mark Wright, (MCA
Nashville President) Bruce Hinton,
(SBK executive) Jimmy Gilmer and
all these guys were coming to
Beaumont to see me where I was
playing. That blew me away."
Not too many months later, he
was on his way to the top with his
first album "Too Cold At Home".
Songs like "Brother Juke Box" and
"Friends in Low Places" have helped
Chesnutt to gain nationwide recog-
nition as an upcoming country singer.
MCA records has nothing but
positive comments about the singer.
"The thing that attracted me to him
was the way he's true to his school-
ing when he sings," said Wright of
his visit to Cutter's, the popular
Beaumont club where Chesnutt was
a headlines "You could tell, seeing
him in his environment, with that
wonderful voice coming out of the
speakers and 500 people on a
Wednesday night two-stepping and
loving it and loving him."
He credits much of his success
to his backup, The New South Band.
The current line-up has Mike St.
Clair on bass and vocals, David
Fahrenthold on steel guitar, Glen
Gordon on lead guitar, Darren Bigler
cm drums and vocals, Val Lindsey on
fiddle and Larry Simmons on key-
boards. In addition to singing lead
vocals, Chesnutt also plays rhythm
guitar and drums.
The singer lias high ambitions.
"I've just always wanted to be a
singer. It's something I kept on doing
and it's the only thing I enjoy doing
for money," Chesnutt said. "All I
want to be is the greatest country
singer living:"
Hie conceit is set for February
14 at 8 p.m. in Wisdom Gym. Tick-
ets are currently on sale at the Cen-
tral Ticket Office in the Clyde H.
Wells Fine Arts Cento-.
Ticket prices from January 28
through February 1 are $5 for TSU
students, $7 for TSU faculty and
staff and $8 for the general public.
Rom February 4 through February 8
tickets are $6 for students, $8 for
faculty and staff and $9 to the gen-
eral public; after February 11 they
will be $7, $8 and $10. Children's
tickets are available for $4 in ad-
vance and $5 at the door.
The Central Ticket Office is
open weekday afternoons from 12:30
to 2:30 and from 4 p.m, to 5:30. Hie
Box Office telephone number is 817-
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