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They say there are only three singers who can properly do justice to the Marty Robbin's chestnut "Devil Woman." One of course is Marty himself. The other two are Billy Cowsill and Stewart MacDougall. Luckily for us, Cowsill and MacDougall will be playing together this weekend and we can hear it for ourselves.
Although they're longtime mutual friends, fans and collaborators, this is the first time MacDougall and Cowsill will perform together in a duo format (at the Uptown Folk Club this Friday). Both of these tremendous, talented artists have careers with deep roots.
Cowsill was a child star during the '60s. His family's band The Cowsills were the model for TV's The Partridge Family, the actualy-related family were a far superior band but passed on what could have been first virtual television show. The mom and five kid Cowsills went on to have a huge hits with "The Rain, The Park, the Other Things" and "Indian Lake," but their biggest chart topper was "Hair," the title and theme song to the Broadway hit musical.
Billy Cowsill immigrated to Canada from the States and had a healthy solo career during the '70s; in the 80's he formed the excellent vocal roots-pop band, The Blue Shadows. Cowsill now spends his time with Calgary's Co-Dependents. To hear him solo or in a duo is a real treat, because you can really hear how deep inside the music he gets.
Stewart MacDougall was a little kid with a big voice when he came to us from New Brunswick, and fortunately he never left. Singers such as Merle Haggard, who MacDougall touts as the singer who gave him "hope that white people could sing," inspired his rich, warm, beautiful baritone.
He's been the keyboardist, musical director and singer with acts like Laura Vinson, k.d. lang and the Recliners, Ian Tyson and the Chinook Arch Riders, The Grand Old Uproar, the Cowtones and the Great Western Orchestra. MacDougall's newist Colin Lay produced album, Ghost Trains, is slated for release in September 2003
Stewart MacDougall and Billy Cowsill play the Uptown Folk Club at Woodcroft Community Hall, Friday Mar. 28.
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