It’s Happening at Chinook Winds in April
Collin Raye Brings Country Sound
It’s time to get back to the country
with the music of Collin Raye on
April 4-5.
This singer/songwriter’s blend of
Western swing, rockabilly, country
rock, and sentimental ballads brought
him a string of hit singles in the early
‘90s. As a child in Arkansas, Floyd
Collin Wray’s mother was a well-
known local country singer who
performed with such stars as Johnny
Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley.
She sometimes brought Collin and his
brother, Scott, onstage to sing harmony.
Collin and Scott founded the
country-rock Wray Brothers Band in
the late ‘70s and moved west to
perform, disbanding after a Top 50 hit
in 1987. After the breakup of the band,
Raye began performing on his own in
Nevada clubs.
What started as a simple desire to
entertain has turned into something
that’s almost a holy calling for Raye.
The man with the most muscular tenor
in country music still puts on shows that
are electrifying in their intensity.
But as album after album sells
platinum and single after single hits
No. 1, Raye has found that there’s
something more profound about what
he does than merely entertaining
people. While in the beginning he
wanted hits, awards, and all that, he’s
now driven by what the music means
to people.
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He’s been lauded by various
entities for the social messages that his
music and videos contain, such as the
anti-racist message of Not That
Different. Nearly 200,000 calls poured
into Al-Anon’s 1-800 number after
Raye included it in his video for Little
Rock. And millions have danced to such
joyous songs as My Kind of Girl, Little
Red Rodeo, and That's My Story.
Raye also has been noticed by his
contemporaries. Among his many
nominations and awards are 1998’s
ACM Male Vocalist of the Year
nomination and the Dove Award for
Country Recorded Song of the Year,
1997’s CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
nomination and ACM Video of the Year
Award for I Think About You, 1996’s
CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
nomination and CMA Best Video
nomination for Not That Different,
1994’s CMA Song of the Year
nomination for Little Rock, and 1992’s
CMA Song of the Year nomination for
Love Me and ACM Single of the Year
nomination for Love Me.
His certified platinum albums
include All I Can Be ( 1991), In This Life
(1992), Extremes (1994), and / Think
About You (1995).
Don’t miss the opportunity to see
this outstanding entertainer in person.
Shows are at 8 p.m. on April 4 and 6 p.m.
and 9 p.m. on April 5. Tickets range from
$25-$40, depending on seat location.
... by Teresa Simmons
Remodeling of Buffet Complete
By the time you read this, the buffet remodel will be complete. More
details will be included in the May issue of Siletz News.
We invite you to visit our newly remodeled buffet. In addition to new hot
and cold food stations, we’ve added more comfortable seating.
Easter Eggstravaganza
April 20-7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Buffet Brunch $13.99 and $11.99 for seniors (55+)
Visit the Easter Bunny; enter drawings for Easter baskets and other prizes.
Don’t Miss American Pie with
Don McLean
Don’t miss your slice of American Pie when Don McLean performs at Chinook
Winds Casino on April 18-19.
In his 30+-year recording career,
McLean remains among the most popular
singer-songwriters in pop music history.
He struck up an early friendship with
many well-known folk figures, including
Pete Seeger, who provided him with
significant exposure as part of the
performing troop on the fabled
Clearwater Sloop in 1969.
McLean then signed with the small
Mediarts label and recorded Tapestry,
which was mostly unheard until its 1973
reissue by United Artists (which had pur
chased Mediarts two years earlier). The
reason for its re-release? American Pie.
Released in late 1971, McLean’s
allegorical story of rock ‘n’ roll has been
analyzed to near death, though McLean
Don McLean
himself has consistently refused to be
drawn into protracted explanations regarding its meaning. Its extended stay at the
top of the charts - No. 1 for four weeks, while the American Pie album held the
top slot for seven in 1972 - might have guaranteed a raft of imitations, perhaps by
a dazzled McLean himself, but it was not to be.
His next single, Vincent (a tribute to artist Vincent Van Gogh), was a moving,
intimate track that sounded nothing like American Pie but hit the Top 20 regardless.
A huge international hit, the song in some ways shaped McLean’s future and later
musical approach much more so than did American Pie.
In 1973, it became known that Roberta Flack’s No. 1 smash, Killing Me Softly
With His Song, was directly inspired by a live McLean performance. After the
relative success of Dreidel, a single pulled from American Pie’s follow-up, Don
McLean, he spent the remainder of the ‘70s hitless.
McLean became a large concert draw in the U.K. and internationally. At one
point, partially stymied by the perceived need to follow up American Pie, he
refused to play the track in concert, though he later relented.
McLean’s cover of Roy Orbison’s Crying, which hit the Top 5, put him back
into the American music scene. In 1991, the singer produced a respectable
collection of originals called Headroom that easily measured up to past work.
Introduced by Garth Brooks as his idol, McLean closed the country superstar s
landmark summer 1997 Central Park concert by performing American Pie. His
music has been used on the TV series Ally McBeal and in such movies as Eddie
Murphy’s Bowfinger.
Shows are at 8 p.m. on April 18 and 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on April 19.
Tickets range from $15 to $25, depending on seat location.