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Show Juice Returns to Cowboy Bar v" V1-'- ; ?yrr: - . V . : - r' Juice Newton National recording artist Juice Newton will be performing per-forming at the Cowboy Bar on Main Street nightly through Saturday beginning at 9 p.m. Admission is $4 on Thursday, and $5 Friday and Saturday. "I knew at a very early age that I wanted to be a singer, and I thought I could make it because I kept getting more and more positive feedback when I'd get up and do it," says silver-throated, golden-maned golden-maned Juice Newton, who has just released her fourth Capitol LP, Juice (February 1981). "It's been difficult, but maybe I'll be able to handle success better because be-cause it came slowly to me and I'm not tired of it.' The Virginia Beach native has handled her success very well indeed. Teaching herself how to play guitar at age 13. Juice quickly built a large repertoire of folk material and went out on the coffee club circuit. Folk music was a logical choice at the time, because "it was acoustic and, since it required re-quired no amplification, was easily portable. " As soon as she started college in northern California however, she melded, her folk interest with rock 4n' roll, forming an electric band, Dixie Peach, with a friend named Otha Young. "1 had some traumatic moments in making the transition from acoustic to electric," Juice remembers. "but it was a lot of fun. The music expanded and matured, ma-tured, but I stayed basically on the same track." 1979 saw Juice moving firmly into the countrypop idiom with the release of Take Heart. The single "Sunshine" zoomed into the Top 40 on the country charts. "I'd been progressing in that direction at somewhat a steady pace," Juice explains. ex-plains. "I now consider myself a countrypop singer. My accent is on country and my voice has a certain country flavor." Juice definitely has a distinct country flavor. Produced by Richard Landis, the LP has rock 'n' roll undertones and pop overtones, over-tones, but at the core is a powerful conntrv instrument - Juice's voice. "Because the barriers between pop and country arc now down, we could reach a lot more people." she says. "I want to keep my country audience, and I'm not a rock singer, but 1 also feel that we do a good job on hybrid styles like ' rockabilly." Juice co-wrote one tune on the LP. "River Of Love." with Otha Young. Young wrote "The Sweetest Thing" himself, and the other eight arc classic cover tunes, including "All 1 Have To Do Is Dream". "Countrv Comfort". Com-fort". "Queen Of Hearts" and "Ride 'em Cowboy". The first single released from the LP was a stirring-version stirring-version of "Angel Of The Mornino" r "I like people to listen to someone else's point of view," she continues. "It's also important to have a good time. Life isn't purgatory and 1 believe we weren't sent here to suffer. You should try and have as good a time as you possibly can and take some chances. It's a real waste of time to stay in the same spot. You're missing so much in life if vou do. You're cheating yourself." |