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The Independent Weekly Line on Durango and Beyond

By Chris Aaland

KDUR station manager Bryant Liggett texted me Friday to come to the station immediately. An hour earlier, the station had its virgin broadcast from its incredible new control room in the newly-renovated Student Union. (It had broadcast from the production room of its new digs for about a month while new equipment was being installed.)

I’ve broadcast from five different KDUR studios since I first hit the airwaves in 1988. This Monday (July 11) marks my first broadcast in the new digs and the sixth KDUR studio I’ve done a show from. I guess that makes me an old-timer.

But that wasn’t the history that Liggett was prodding me to be part of last Friday. Jamie Oldaker, a certified member of American rock royalty, was sitting in the interview chair alongside up-and-coming singer/guitarist Garrett LeBeau. Never heard of Jamie? You’ve certainly heard him bang the drums. He toured and recorded with Eric Clapton for 17 years, including much of Slowhand’s seminal ‘70s output. He was part of Bob Seger’s Silver Bullet Band and Frehley’s Comet, fronted by former Kiss axeman Ace Frehley. He was a founding member of the Tractors, a country act that sprung out of Tulsa in the early ‘90s. The Who’s Who that the drummer has pounded out beats for includes Stephen Stills, Leon Russell, Peter Frampton, Freddie King, Asleep at the Wheel, the Bellamy Brothers and the Bee Gees. He’s currently wrapping up the long-awaited (as in 40 years) second album by Willis Alan Ramsey.

Oldaker, LeBeau and company would play the Derailed Saloon later that night. I once saw Oldaker from the second row of Red Rocks on Clapton’s Behind the Sun Tour in 1985, a show that saw them open with Cream’s “White Room.”

For those who complain that there’s no good live music in Durango, think again. You just never know when royalty will grace us.

The silver anniversary of Music in the Mountains is upon us, meaning weeks of classical music at a variety of venues across the Four Corners. The Mambo Kings, upstate New York’s foremost purveyors of Latin jazz, play the festival tent at Durango Mountain Resort at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The band’s repertoire includes a variety of originals, American songbook standards and jazz classics by the likes of Chick Corea and Miles Davis in addition to their Latin fare. The group’s five members have performed alongside Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Tito Puente, Chuck Mangione, the Temptations and others.

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