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Local musician debuts third album
CAKE,
continued from Page A1
days in a row that I haven’t
been sleeping,” Hearn said.
She whipped up her fi rst
full-size cake at the begin-
ning of August: a three-layer,
dark chocolate cake with a
buttercream chocolate fi lling
and ganache topping off the
whole thing.
“I have the base recipes
from the cupcakes and I
adapted it for a whole cake,”
Hearn said.
Her son, Jacobe, 12, is the
designated fl avor refi nement
expert and he signed off on
the creation. Hearn took
that into work and earned
enough rave reviews to bol-
ster her confi dence.
She decided to enter it
into Frank’s long-running
contest, which was held on
Sept. 1 in Columbia Hall on
the State Fairgrounds.
Frank started the con-
test, for which he is the sole
judge, 60 years ago. Frank be-
came a renown fi gure in Or-
egon as chief of staff to late
Sen. Mark Hatfi eld. In retire-
ment, and as part of depart-
ment store family, he turned
his attention to unearthing
the special places, restaurants
and sites that make Oregon
unique. He collects all the in-
formation in his guidebook,
Gerry Frank’s Oregon, now in
its fourth edition.
When the contest was
over, Hearn walked out of
Columbia Hall with a $250
Macy’s gift card and a copy
of Frank’s book, and no more
Submitted
Jenn Hearn’s winning cake was
a three-layer, dark choco-
late cake with a buttercream
chocolate fi lling and ganache
topping off the whole thing.
excuses for avoiding full
cakes.
For now, and the foresee-
able future, Hearn said bak-
ing will remain a hobby, one
of many that involve creating
things from scratch, whether
it’s baked goods, home décor
or music.
“I don’t know if I want to
make it my full-time work
because I don’t know if I
would enjoy it as much as I
do now,” she said.
She hasn’t, however, ruled
out future contests.
By LAUREN MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Local
singer/songwriter,
Gabriel Cox, was getting ready
to release his third self-pro-
duced album, Junior, during
a live performance at Keizer
Rapids Park on Sept. 14. Un-
fortunately, concerns over in-
clement weather have scrapped
the plan.
Cox has rescheduled the
concert for Oct. 5 at Salem
Armory.
Junior is an acoustic album
that was originally written for
Cox’s children, Katie, 15, and
Caleb, 13. He didn’t plan to
make it into an album for wide
release, but his wife, Julia, con-
vinced him otherwise.
“I feel like the writing is my
best work yet,” Cox said.
Though he previously re-
leased two albums, Junior has
been a long time in the mak-
ing.
“I’ve been playing and writ-
ing these songs around my
house for the last fi ve years or
so, since my kids were little,”
Cox said.
It has been three years since
Cox released his last album I
blues musicians in
the Portland area.
“My
previ-
ous records are
a lot heavier, but
this album shows
people another
side of me that I
don’t share very
often,” Cox said.
The produc-
tion of the new
album took col-
laboration from
several artists.
“All of these
Submitted
talented
indi-
Gabriel Cox plays guitar in the studio. Cox had
viduals were an
scheduled a Keizer concert this weekend, but
absolute blast to
it has been canceled over weather concerns.
work with, and
most are from the
Surrender, which was nomi- Salem/Keizer area. It’s incred-
nated for Best Self-Produced ible to see how much talent
Album of 2016 by The Blues we have right here in our own
Foundation. Before that, in backyard,” Cox said.
2014, he released his debut al-
His favorite part of pro-
bum titled Gabriel Cox.
ducing this time around was
Cox is also a three-time working with all the people
Muddy Award nominee – the who made it happen; including
Muddy Awards honor local John Pulvers, a family friend
and lead singer of KALiCO, the
band that was slated to open for
Cox at his Keizer performance.
Cox and Pulvers often play
music together in their spare
time. Pulvers walked away
from music for a time prior
to the planned Keizer concert
because he had lost the joy in
it. After people that were close
to him and his daughter passed
away, he decided to pick it up
again.
“We both learned that life is
so short,” Pulvers said, “It’s been
nice to play again. I want to do
this for my family and most im-
portantly for her.”
Junior will be available for
download on the Sept. 14 and
will, eventually, be available for
streaming services.
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