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Hood River News, Wednesday, February 11, 2015
ENTERTAINMENT
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JIM DRAKE’S ENTERTAINMENT BLOG
Deep soul and rare records:
Ural Thomas and the Pain plays HR
Hop Trip, more at White Buffalo
Hop Trip (featuring Mark Daly) will be cooking-up in-
teresting originals with a hint of folk, funk and fun at
the White Buffalo on Thursday, Feb. 12, from 6-8 p.m.
Enjoy a complimentary wine tasting with Helioterra
wines. Polly Norris and Mark Womble will be performing
at the White Buffalo on Valentines Day, Saturday Feb. 14,
from 6 to 8 p.m. White buffalo Wine Bar and Bistro, 4040
Westcliff Drive, Hood River 541-386-5534.
Tillinghast plays House Concert
Treat your Valentine and yourself to music the critics
call “a deep, healing well.” Richard and Tova Tillinghast
will play songs from their new album “The Door is
Open,” on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. Expect some “Valen-
tine's Day songs, plus some new ones about family, travel,
and whitewater.” 401 Montello Ave., Hood River. For more
information call Paul Blackburn at 541-387-4011.
Three for Silver at Trillium
“Portland's Three for Silver is redefining musical per-
formance. Their songs exist in and relate to a kind of
dreamtime reality. Each live show is a dramatic unwind-
ing - lacking breaks and patter between songs - so that
the evening becomes a flow of feelings, intonations and
incantations.” Catch them at the Trillium Cafe on Friday,
Feb. 13. Call for showtimes. Trillium Cafe, 207 Oak St.,
Hood River, 541-308-0800.
Valentine’s dance at CG Hotel
Celebrate love songs through the ages and dance to the
music of Henry Schifter, Dan Crothers and Mike Still-
man. Expect love songs in French, Spanish, Russian and
English. Guaranteed to “have the love songs that put ro-
mance in the air.” Saturday, Feb. 14, 7-10 p.m. No cover
charge. Columbia Gorge Hotel, 4000 Westcliff Dr., Hood
River; 541-386-5566.
Entertainment listings can be e-mailed to
jdrake@hoodrivernews.com
By JIM DRAKE
Hood River News
A unique R&B-soul band is
coming to Hood River on Fri-
day, Feb. 13, and even if
you’re superstitious, we
should be treating this show
like it’s our lucky day.
If you’re into the 60s clas-
sic soul era, like the songs on
the Atlantic Rhythm and
Blues series which features
artists like Ray Charles and
Otis Redding, you’ll really
enjoy Ural Thomas and the
Pain.
One reason that this band
has such a classic sound is
the lead singer, Ural Thomas,
played music during that
classic 60s era. He is 74 years
old, and he’s still perform-
ing.
When I think about his
age, I’m amazed by the fact
that he’s older, by 20 years or
more, than most of my 78-
rpm records that I’ve been
recently archiving into my
digital music library.
I have found that when a
record of that speed and age
is played, there’s an inde-
scribable feeling that hap-
pens when you listen to it.
It’s truly like being trans-
ported back to a different
era.
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When I interviewed the
Pain’s bandleader and drum-
mer Scott Magee I wasn’t
surprised to find out that it
was his encounter of finding
the rare, out-of-print records
of Ural Thomas in a Port-
land record shop that led
him to put this band together
last year. I guess you could
say his sole (soul?) purpose
was to bring back the ‘deep
soul’ music, as he called it, of
a singer with decades of ex-
perience, but one who had
not much in the way of na-
tional recognition over his
career.
“My friend who owns Mis-
sissippi Records had reis-
sued some of Ural’s lesser
known songs, one of which
had limited release in almost
complete obscurity. We had a
conversation about Ural’s
music one day, and he knew I
was a drummer, and I men-
tioned how it would be a
dream come true situation to
play with someone like Ural.
The owner thought that Ural
would actually be interested
in getting back out onstage
again, and put me in touch
with him,” Scott Magee said.
What seems to make Ural
Thomas and the Pain unique
is the age difference in band
members. Magee is 40-ish,
and most folks in the 10-piece
band are half that age. Yet
it’s the music that really
brings it all together.
“Well, I’m the band leader
and music director and the
drummer, from where I sit
I’ve seen the project grow
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Got
vinyl?
Ural Thomas is older than
most of my 78 r.p.m. discs.
I’m in the middle at 40, Ural
is 74, and I think the level of
talent in the band is very
high, so age has kind of tran-
scended that situation. Ural,
who has all this experience
under his belt, and has an
amazing talent for singing
and performing, and really
brought the whole group into
a family of sorts. We’ve be-
come very close, so there’s a
strong bond that’s taken
place. There’s fifty years of
experience between band
members, and it’s pretty un-
usual,” Magee said.
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