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Show Sun Advocate Price, Utah Thursday March 21, 2002 IB S ByRICHARDSHAW Focus page editor When approaching the home where Stone House Recording Studios is located, it is apparent this is not only a place of music, but also a happy home. The front porch has all the trappings of a house filled with children; toys, scooters and bikes line the front of the cement railing. Inside, the music takes over, the sweet music of childrens happy voices mixed with those of various CDs that emanate from the speakers of the stereo system. The influence is obvious; Hillbilly Voodoo comes from the heart. Lance and Tamlyn Weaver moved to Carbon County a few years ago, after searching for just the right place to settle down and develop a music style that suits them. Big fans of roots music, they were determined to show that the roots movement not only has strongholds in the east, but that the west has it's own influence on the music so popular in many places right now. Lance is a native Utahn, originally from Weber County. Iiis musical education began very early on. I remember sitting under my moms and dads chairs when I was young singing along with them as they sang." he says. Then I got out the pots and pans and began to assemble my own drum set. My parents listened to this for only so long and then told me that if I wanted a set of drums they would gp in half and I could work off the other half and so that is what I did." he became interested in the As the years progressed Lance drummed away, but in his mid-teehim work with the sticks. drew from the like his sound electric so The away age. many guitar I watched these punk rock bands, and here were these classically trained guitarists who were doing punk rock, he states. I was taken by the sound. What was really interesting were the influences in their music. Music like polka and bluegrass were apparent in a lot of pieces I heard. So like many teenage musicians, the drums and the horns he had played in school bands gave way to the guitar and punk rock music. But eventually this also led him to another music genre; raggae. For a long time he played with some top raggae bands along the Kfastach Front such as Iric Heights and Zion Tribe, but the love of many kinds of music began to take him other directions. Listening to late night Jazz on KUER was one of his favorites things to do in late hours of the day. Meanwhile to make ends meet he worked in the construction business while searching for his musical destination. That destination came in the form of a girl who lived with another in the apartment across the hall from him. Tamlyn Weaver called Lance the slob across the hall for quite a while before she got to know him. She saw him come and go, but only really became interested in who he was when she began to notice him listening to the jazz tunes late at night as she walked by. Tamlyn, had always loved music too, but in a much different vein. Hers was originally the world of opera. From the time she was a small girl in California she can remember wanting to be an opera singer. But she realized years later that life was not for her. I was in a number of high school ns . and college productions and loved it, she states holding daughter Fiona on her lap. All the people I was involved with thought I had what it took to be a star in the opera world. But what they also told me was that I would have to give up the rest of my life to do it. Not wanting to give up everything from ever being able to have a family life to living where she wanted to live to pursue tin opera career. Ihmlyn took a different direction. She had dabbled in guitar and decided with, another girls to become a street singer and sec the country. She played on the streets of cities like San Fran cisco, Portland, Seattle and New York, learning not only about how to make music but about what she really wanted. She developed her vocal style, influenced heavily by the sounds of Joni Mitchell. When she actually met Lance she was playing a guitar with her fingers, having never used a pick in her life. They began to play together and found they could compliment each others sounds and also be honest about where their music was going. Lance began to train her in more formal guitar methods. Lances influences were so different from mine, she says. It actually took us three years to work out the differences before we could actually get together and make it really work. At the time they were living in Salt Lake and they needed to find a place where they felt they aiuld raise a family at an affordable price while pursuing their music. Then they found Columbia, and just the house to fit their budget and lifestyle at the time. They moved to Carbon County and began their new life. At that point they really ha d no definite idea of where their music was going, nor did they even have a name for themselves. One night they had some friends from SalbLake down to a party and someone started pounding on a drum. Pretty soon everyone was pounding on drums as they formed a drum circle in the front room. The next morning Lance was out on the front porch picking on his banjo as a few people went by. Not long after someone mentioned to them that some people in the neighborhood thought that, from what they had seen of the Weavers, that they were hillbillies who perform voodoo. Thus the name of Hillbilly Voodoo was born. But performing in various clubs and at events in the area, and at times along the Vfesatch Front, is not all these two do. They also compose much of their own music. TWo people doing that in the same house can be trouble for some people, but the Weavers have seemed to come to grips with the problems it causes, in fact even flourished by them. Most of our writing is done separately, but we have collaborated on three songs together, says Tamlyn. It has been very hard to come together as equals when it comes to writing music. We are definitely going to do more of it, states Lance. Our perspectives are coming closer together and the more we do the less time we waste no time in worrying about hurting each others feelings when we work together." Each of them constructs song differently. Ihmlyn takes a long time to write a song, where as with Lance it seems to just drop out of the sky on him and he can write it in a few minutes. But neither really agree on this point; they both see each others talents and efforts differently. Being big roots music fans means various influences affects their writing and playing. But they are determined to develop a western roots style that is unique, and to also help others to do the same. Lance has built a studio in the basement of the home where various friends have been working to record their works. The label that will appear on the works will be Robbers Roost Recordings. This is a coop studio, where artists will work together to create viable music and recordings, says Lance. (Continued mi page 2B) 'S tl 7 ' ii" m - V N fir -- vffl-- ' ?' ... i , years mpierience in Music isnow one ofthehigh- -' est selling music businesses based oh popu-- lotion in all the western states. Neiland Janeyi Breinholt havecontinued to Jearnfb create more arid new music opportunities for Carbon and Emery counties, as well as; ; With seventeen oh -- Our approach with great prices, the ability to finance sales, and even take trade-in- s has enabled the store to grow even through many of the ups and downs in the local - economy. 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