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Formed in 1988 at Philadelphia’s High School For Creative Arts, Boyz II Men had their big break the following year when they snuck into New Edition man Michael Bivins’ dressing room in Philadelphia. So impressed was he with their impromptu audition – an a cappella version of his group’s “Can You Stand The Rain” – he agreed to manage them on the spot. With Bivins at the helm, Boyz II Men soon scored a deal with Motown and set to work on Cooleyhighharmony, the 1991 debut album which kick-started their stratospheric career.
Written largely by the band and produced by Dallas Austin – the man who’d later oversee some of TLC’s biggest hits – Cooleyhighharmony is a choice work that melds old-school R&B with contemporary influences, and the album’s two lead singles showcased the group’s versatility. “Motownphilly,” co-written by Michael Bivins and featuring a rap cameo that detailed that fateful first backstage meeting, utilized the upbeat, hip-hop-influenced New Jack Swing genre that dominated the charts that year. Meanwhile “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday,” a spine-tingling a cappella cover of GC Cameron’s 1975 hit, perfectly showcased each member’s classically trained vocals and close harmonies. Both singles raced up the charts to become Top 5 US hits.
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Elsewhere, there were slow jams in the form of “Please Don’t Go” and “This Is My Heart”; the Boyz showcased their sensual side on the silky smooth “Uhh Ahh”; and there was another upbeat New Jack Swing-influenced anthem in the irresistible form of the James Bond-referencing “Sympin’.” With its pitch-perfect close harmonies over tough hip-hop beats, “Under Pressure” was perhaps the purest example of the sound the boys themselves dubbed “hip-hop doo-wop.”
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With the band presenting a preppy, clean-cut look that was a fresh change from the street-tough image that dominated R&B at the time, Cooleyhighharmony proved a huge success. After its release on April 30, 1991, it reached No.3 in the US Billboard chart and quickly went multi-platinum. Repackaged the following year to include “End Of The Road,” the song recorded for the Boomerang soundtrack and which had scored Boyz II Men their first No.1 single, the album hit even greater commercial heights as it went on to sell over nine million copies. There was more success come awards season as Cooleyhighharmony won the nod for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals at the 1992 Grammy Awards, setting the stage for their chart-topping, multi-platinum-selling follow-up, II.
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Several Haines student artists were honored for their work after a weekend of experimenting with new techniques and mediums over the course of four days.
Students from all over Southeast Alaska traveled to the Chilkat Valley for the annual Region V Art Festival. Each chose two options for classes and spent an average of 30 hours working on pieces over the weekend.
“It was super challenging, said Ronnie Fairbanks of Craig, who taught a workshop where students created formline art for longboards. “We only have 15 hours to learn how to paint formline. Have you ever tried that? It’s not fun.”
Two Chilkat Valley students were honored for their efforts in his class, Ruby Martin who was awarded best in workshop and Ezra Nash who was given an honorable mention.
“I chose Ruby because if you see this design, she like threw this killer whale together and you can tell she has experience with formline, but it’s super complicated,” said Fairbanks. “She stayed up until 2 a.m. painting. She put in a lot of time, so I’m super proud of her.”
Zorza Szatkowski brought home best in class in both John and Sharon Svenson’s glass mosaic workshop and in a found-item mixed media workshop taught by Juneau artist Sam Jordan. In the latter class, Szatkowski’s distinctive creation “The Eternal Struggle” got a lot of interest during a student art show on Monday.
It features a robotic creation with batteries for eyes, a row of screws spiking down its back, feathered driftwood trees, and a smaller creature with a shell for a head appearing to hunt with a spear.
“It’s so rad to dish out this MacGyver set of random items and see some kid come up with something out of their head,” said Jordan. “You can see that and it’s crazy cool.”
Local artist Skweit Jessie Morgan taught a copper-engraving workshop for seven students.
“Copper engraving is really hard and unpredictable,” said Morgan, who thanked the Chilkoot Indian Association for loaning her class its equipment. She said students who came in with formline experience made the workshop an “amazing space.”
Other local students highlighted for their work included MJ Hotch whose efforts in Tawney Crowley’s gelli-print class won her an honorable mention while Ezra Nash was awarded best in workshop for her work in a painting class taught by Ashley Lohr.
Results:
Glass Mosaic (taught by local artists John and Sharon Svenson)
- Best in Class, Zorza Szatkowski, Haines
- Honorable mention, Zoe Lessard, Juneau
Copper Carving (taught by local artist Skweit Jessie Morgan)
- Best in Class, Riley Soboleff, Juneau
- Honorable mention, Ray Fairbanks, Klawock
Found Items Mixed Media (taught by Juneau artist Sam Jordan)
- Best in Class, Zorza Szatkowski, Haines
- Honorable mention, Hannah Hofstetter, Petersburg
Gelli Print (taught by Wrangell’s Tawney Crowley)
- Best in Class, Tera Hicks, Juneau
- Honorable mention, MJ Hotch, Haines
Beaded Earring Making (taught by Klawock’s Eva Rowan)
- Best in Class, Ali Kittams, Petersburg
- Honorable mention, Ellee Votzm, Wrangell
Glass blowing (taught by Haines’ Tassja Letchworth)
- Honorable mention, Claire Davis, Kake
- Honorable mention, Claire Snyder, Juneau
Halibut Hooks (taught by Kake artist Joe Lewis)
- Blood, Sweat and Tears award (Best in Workshop) Riley Soboleff, Juneau
- Special Unicorn (honorable mention) August Rathbone, Juneau
Formline Longboards (taught by Ronnie Fairbanks of Craig)
- Best in Workshop, Ruby Martin, Haines
- Honorable Mention, Ezra Nash, Haines
Wash Painting and India Ink (local art teacher Kelleen Adams)
- Best in Workshop, Quinn Rafferty, Petersburg
- Honorable mention, Hannah Hofstetter, Petersburg
Upcycled Photography (Skagway’s Valerie Larsen)
- Best in Workshop, Rebecca Midkiff, Petersburg
- Honorable mention, Anna Rock, Petersburg
Painting (taught by Ashley Lohr, of Petersburg)
- Best in Workshop, Ezra Nash, Haines
- Honorable mention, Ayla Loges, Kake
Best for work completed at the event: Zoe Lessard, Juneau
Best for work from home (completed in their home town and brought to Haines): Eve Harrige
Kirk Garbisch award: Kiera Sanderson, of Klawock
Spirit of Art Festival award: Rick Mills
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Folksinger and songwriter Jackson Emmer is headed to the Chilkat Valley this weekend as part of a tour of Alaska communities that starts in Seward on Thursday.
He sat down with the Chilkat Valley News’ Rashah McChesney to talk about his music, outlook on life and what people can expect from his show.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
You’ve described Battle Hymn of the Early Riser as a “tired dad” record. What did parenthood make you notice that you weren’t writing about before?
Well, it has changed my level of empathy and patience and my wide-open heart for all kinds of people. I felt like I was pretty loving and empathetic before, but now that I’m a dad and I just see how insane parenting is, I just feel like so much more grace towards everyone.
Also, I used to just kind of walk around … letting my hair blow in the wind, just being like, when’s inspiration gonna strike? Now it’s like ‘you have an hour and a half to finish … whatever the project is, could be the song, it could be the mix, it could be planning this part of your tour.’ Things get done on a much tighter schedule.
A lot of the new songs seem built around small domestic moments. How do you decide when an ordinary detail is strong enough to carry a song?
There are these little moments in life that just hit me. This is 50 things at least in one second of, you know, how my daughter asks me ‘can we play now?’ And whenever I feel that way … my ears perk up, and I think maybe there’s a song there. More get abandoned than get written, but sometimes it works out.
If you listen to Tom Waits versus pop country, I think these are two approaches to writing that are almost in opposition to one another. The Tom Waits thing is these rambling little vignettes, almost moments in time that are strung together with watercolors of lyric and sound. You can’t quite get your hand around it but it makes you feel something. A lot of pop country writing, like [Toby Keith’s] “Red Solo Cup,” there’s no mistaking what this song is about, right? And I am kind of interested in the writing that blends those two worlds where it’s like this small moment that could be the red solo cup, or it could be in my song “Clementine Unicorn Sacrifice,” [with] my daughter pretending to murder stuffed animal unicorns.
Your songs often balance humor with grief or disappointment. It sounds like that’s intentional, or is it just how you naturally see things at this stage in your life?
I think I’m a little bit of a ‘every sunny day has a dark cloud somewhere,’ kind of person. I feel what everybody else does, which is, like, a lot of joy and a lot of disappointment. I live with both of those things, and I’m not the kind of person to ignore them, and I think a lot of people are like that, but maybe better at shoving the inconvenient parts away or compartmentalizing, and I just, I don’t know, I just carry them around.
What can people expect from your live show here?
I’m going to be playing mostly original music, folk and country music, with my buddy Martin Gilmore, who’s backed me up on this tour. We do a lot of shows together, and he’s an amazing flat-picker like bluegrass guitarist and singer-songwriter in his own right. So we’ll do some of his music too. It’s just crushingly analog folk and country music. It will be intimate. You will not feel like you know us by the end of the show, you will know us.
What makes a song finished for you?
When you sing it and you’re proud of every syllable and every note comes out smooth and true. You know there are a lot of people, I find, that are pretty good at writing a song to like 90-95% complete. And then you go play it for people and there’ll be one line that you know in your heart ‘that’s not really it.’ There are little burrs in a song that always happen when you’re that close to a finished song. You’ve got to go sand those burrs off and it takes 30 minutes of extra work or it could take months of extra work to get it how you want it. But, when you do that the song flows out and feels true and that’s, for me, when I know that it’s done.
For someone in town who has never heard you before, what song would you tell them to start with?
I’d tell them to go listen to “All Hat, No Cattle” and I’d tell them to go listen to “Colorado Line” and another favorite of mine is called “Jericho’s Diamonds” which is kind of a sleepy waltz with a lot of pedal steel.
Jackson Emmer is playing in concert at the Chilkat Center on May 3 at 7 p.m. General admission is $15 at the door, students free.
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