24 - Wednesday, March 25, 1992 -

North Shore News

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NEW COUNTRY sensation Marty Brown plays the Vancouver East Cultural Centre on Saturday with

Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

Everybody knows Marty

HE COUNTRY gig of

the year rolls into

Vancouver on Satur-
day.

The Jimmie and Marty Party, an
evening with Jimmie Dale Gilmore
and Marty Brown at the Van-
couver Eas* Cultural Centre, brings
together two extremely talented
country singer-songwriters.

Gilmore is already a legend of
sorts thanks to his collaboration
with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock as
the Austin-based Flatlanders. His
latest solo, After Awhile, was a
critical hit last year.

At 26, Kentucky country singer
Marty Brown is a bona fide phe-
nomenon. The tale of his abrupt
rise from obscurity to a first re-
cording contract last year is the
stuff American dreams are made .
of.

Were taking the cutcing shears to

Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

He spent years trying to get
Nashville record and publishing

companies interested in his music.

Last year a door opened. The
debut release High And Dry is an
instant country classic.

Music Now caught up with
Brown last week.
Music Now: Are you a real

.- cowboy?

Brown: ‘‘I'm not no real cowboy.
{don’t ride bulls or anything. |
come from Kentucky. We don’t
tide ‘em there, we eat ‘em.”’
Music Now: I’ve read about
this amazing road you've trav-
elled to your first recording
contract. Did it all come
together for you last year?
Brown: ‘’I wake up every day and
wonder what new is going to
happen. They‘re wanting to make
a movie of that stuff. Ain't that
Crazy? It just makes me feel weird,
but when | think about it 1 guess it
is pretty interesting. Sometimes it’s
hard to believe what happened
myself. It really was a blessing
from the Lord | got laid off from
the plumbing outfit. 1 went down
to Nashville the same night | got
laid off in desperate search. And
then ! went to bed that night after
See Brown page 36

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