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Singer-guitarist G. Love from the national recording act G. Love Special Sauce treats patrons of Dewey Beach's Starboard to a free afternoon performance on the deck in August.
He had jammed on stage with Robert Randolph the Family Band at the nearby Bottle Cork nightclub the previous evening.
Celebrities were spotted offstage, as well. On July 27, Emmy award-winning actress Drea de Matteo (known for her role as blonde bombshell Adriana on "The Sopranos") popped up in the crowd at the Bottle Cork in Dewey to watch a concert performance by her country-rock boyfriend, Shooter Jennings (son of Waylon Jennings). The Rudder hosted an appearance by Bob Guiney, the photogenic star of season four of the ABC reality show "The Bachelor," in January.
Guiney played rock music with the help of a backing band, yet many female fans were more interested in using their eyes than their ears. A similar occurrence happened in July when actor John Corbett ("Sex in the City," "Northern Exposure") sang country songs at the Cork. "American Idol" runnerup Constantine Maroulis sang to an adoring crowd of hot, sweaty women inside the Rudder on a sweltering August night -- the restaurant's air conditioner had broken.
The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Bar in the World -- Dewey Beach's Bottle Cork -- morphed into something of a twang 'n' bang nightclub in 2006. Co-owner Alex Pires first delved into the country realm in 2005 with a series of concerts at the Cork's sister business, Ruddertowne. "It did much better than we thought it would, so we've kind of moved it up a notch," Pires said.
"If you look at the country scene, Dwight Yoakam is kind of a rocker. (So is) Marty Stuart." In addition to Yoakam and Stuart, the Cork presented Miranda Lambert, Emerson Drive and others.
Some of the concerts, including shows by rock acts like Foreigner and Soul Asylum, took place on Sunday afternoons. "People like it because they can get home early and go to sleep at a decent hour if they have to work the next day," said Pires. He and his partners feuded with Dewey's town commissioners, threatening to replace some of their businesses with condos.
Not all of them, though. "The Cork will be here long after we're all gone," Pires predicted. Pires hired Vikki Walls, who had already been responsible for Dewey's plethora of annual music festivals, as his new booking agent for concerts.
The biggest was a July show by lap-steel virtuoso Robert Randolph, who was joined on stage by surprise guest G. Love (of G. Love Special Sauce).
Steve "Monty" Montgomery, owner of the nearby Starboard nightclub, wasted little time; he quickly contracted Love to play an afternoon concert at his bar the next day. The Delaware Celebration of Jazz Inc. organization presented its second annual Blues at the Beach festival in June.
While the inaugural event in 2005 had been an overwhelming success thanks to headliner B.B. King, this year was a tougher sell.
Promoter Sydney Arzt and her comrades had to deal with cancellations by Etta James, Irma Thomas and Taj Mahal; the only two artists who ended up appearing were Buckwheat Zydeco and Marcia Ball. A plan to add a country element to the festival fell through due to poor ticket sales for Kenny Rogers and a revue from the "Nashville Star" TV show. Arzt and gang rebounded in a major way in October when they hosted their 17th annual Rehoboth Beach Autumn Jazz Festival.
Thousands turned out for packed concerts by George Benson, Euge Groove, Chris Botti, Vinyl Shockley (with Johnny Neel) and others. In March, Arzt sold her 20-year-old Rehoboth business, Sydney's Blues Jazz Restaurant. Couples Doug and Lisa Frampton and Michael and Denise Stiglitz, who had recently moved to the beach from New Castle County, bought the eatery and concert venue and vowed to keep things hopping there for the next two decades.
A few choice words turned out to be the end of the line for a local man's stab at fronting an all-star national rock act. In the midst of competing on the CBS reality television show "Rockstar: Supernova" in Los Angeles, singer Phil Ritchie, an Ocean City native, granted a hometown interview which appeared in newspapers including the Coast Press. On July 26, Supernova bandleader Tommy Lee (of Motley Crue fame) cited a "lack of commitment" while eliminating Ritchie during the heavily-edited show that aired.
Outtakes soon popped up on YouTube.com, with judge Dave Navarro showing the studio audience a newspaper and quoting Ritchie's interview in which he stated that his primary goal for competing was to gain exposure for his own longtime band, Lennex. "I mean, really I just hope to gain exposure.
I love my band and I love the music," Ritchie had said. "I'm not stoked about the music Supernova's popping out." Lewes-based ELBoW Productions presented a sold-out comedy event at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center in August headlined by Paula Poundstone.
The comedienne told the Coast Press she felt her act has gotten better through the years as her writing has improved. "The people in front of me in the audience are very important to me," Poundstone said. "It's my favorite part of the day.
" The 21st annual Punkin Chunkin festival near Long Neck -- the last to be held at that location -- was held in November, and included live music by the Marshall Tucker Band and Danielle Peck in the frigid evening air. A Lewes man, Jimmy Allen, sang R B songs on the "Showtime at the Apollo" television show in February. His favorite part of performing for the notoriously fickle Harlem crowds?
"I was just glad I didn't get booed," said Allen, who was later invited to open for soul star Keith Sweat in North Carolina. Guitarist Keith Mack of Rehoboth released his first-ever solo CD locally. He also released a greatest-hits album nationally with his reunited '80s pop band Scandal, featuring Patty Smythe.
Scandal appeared on television on "Live with Regis Kelly" in September, and later joined Rick Springfield for VH1's "Totally Awesome Concert" special and tour. Former Rehoboth journalist (and Coast Press reporter) Eric Hedegaard, who is now a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, returned to Delmarva in March to talk about his profession. Hedegaard, who has interviewed Johnny Depp, Ozzy Osbourne, Jack Nicholson and others, lectured at the Writers at the Beach conference in Dewey.
Music promoter Chris Lausch of Rehoboth made his annual pilgrimage to Austin, Texas in March to stage a rock concert in conjuction with the South by Southwest festival, where he hob-nobbed with the likes of Elijah "Lord of the Rings" Wood. Lausch does all of the booking for the Dogfish Head brewpub in Rehoboth. "A few years after a band becomes famous, people will go pay big bucks to see them -- even though they could have seen (and met) them in our small room for free," said Lausch, who once booked the Strokes for a sparsely-attended show at Dogfish.
Lausch pointed out the irony of the fact that the Strokes' songs have since been covered by local Top-40 stalwarts such as Chorduroy ("Last Night") and Love Seed Mama Jump ("Sometimes").
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