#based on lps bee no.1987

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ST 37 - One of the Bands Playing Austin Jukebox #7

We’re going to be spotlighting each of the bands that will play the upcoming Austin Jukebox #7 (Parts 1 & 2) on May 19th and 20th at Beerland. The first band, Austin-based ST 37, is one that is very near and dear to my heart, and one that I’ve wanted to play Austin Jukebox from the beginning of the series. I’ve actually been saving them for the perfect show, and now here we are.

ST 37 is an incredible band that formed in 1987 and has been in continues existence since… Yes, since 1987, yes, that’s 30 years! And they continue to bring it every show. Just last night they played an incredible show at Sidewinder. They are the perfect band for Austin Jukebox, they play incredible music and continue to amaze their fans at their shows. You’ll have a chance to see them at 9 PM on May 19th at Beerland playing right before Rocket From the Tombs.

Here’s some background on ST 37:

Since their formation in January of 1987, Texas psych/space rock legends ST 37 have released 4 LPs, 2 double LPs, 8 CDs, 5 7” 45s, 8 CDRs, 3 double CDRs, 7 cassettes, and appeared on over 40 compilations and collaborations on labels ranging from Emperor Jones and RRR to Cleopatra and Noiseville. They’ve played over 450 shows and toured extensively all around the United States and Canada. The band has shared the stage with artists like Sonic Youth, Acid Mothers Temple, Faust, Bardo Pond, the Butthole Surfers, Hawkwind, Chrome, Guru Guru, Helios Creed, Indian Jewelry, Suisho no Fune, and many more as well as playing festivals like Terrastock, SXSW, Strange Daze and Flaxfield. They have scored and performed live original soundtracks to the Fritz Lang films Metropolis and Destiny (Der Mude Tod).

Their current lineup reads like a veritable Who’s Who of contemporary southern and western American adventurous music; newest member Matt Turner (Quttinirpaaq, Shit and Shine, bees are black) joins Bobby Baker (Baby Robots, Rubble), Bob Bechtol (Seven Inch Stitch, Thanatopsis Throne) and longterm stalwarts SL Telles (My Education, Moray Eeels), Joel Crutcher (Abigail und Hansel) and Lisa Cameron (Venison Whirled, Three Day Stubble, Roky Erickson’s Evilhook Wildlife E.T., Moist Fist, Glass Eye) to create music unlike anyone else’s.

Below is a link to “A Huge Rare Cheese”, a great song that will give you an idea of what they’re like if you have not yet been exposed to them. I encourage everyone to explore their vast discography in preparation for their appearance at Austin Jukebox #7.

https://youtu.be/Z-AtTWoXPAA

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Ana Eases Into Singing Career As Cbs Records' Youngest Artist (April 12, 1987) [from the archives of the Orlando Sentinel newspaper]

Another portion of the fuse that could set off a pop music career was lighted Monday in Winter Park. Ana, CBS Records' youngest recording artist and an Orlando resident, opened two shows for trumpeter Doc Severinsen at the Cheek to Cheek Lounge in her first professional appearances. The Meadowbrook Junior High School eighth- grader treated a sellout crowd to some uptempo pop tunes and power ballads from her self-titled debut album, due for release in early June. 

By summer's end Ana could join pop divas Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson and Madonna at the top of the charts, if all goes according to the plans of the recording industry veterans who are working to launch her career. The LP was recorded at Orlando's Parc Records studios at Full Sail Recorders Inc., a CBS Records associated label. It was produced by Karl Richardson, co-producer and engineer of the Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever and Barbra Streisand's Guilty. Frank Wildhorn, who has written for Stacy Lattisaw and Whitney Houston and Sue Shiffren (who wrote some of Tina Turner's and Olivia Newton-John's hits) wrote some of the 10 songs on the LP. The first single, “Shy Boys” (due for release by mid-May) will be remixed for dance clubs and the airwaves by John “Jellybean'” Benitez, best known for his work with Madonna. “I'm very fortunate that I got together with these people,” said Ana, 13. (Like Madonna, she will use only her first name as a professional handle.) “Recording was a big experience. I learned a lot from the team.” ''Normally you wouldn't sign someone that young, because of the voice changes that can take place,'' said Pat Armstrong, Parc Records president and executive officer of the Pat Armstrong & Associates Inc. management firm. ''But we decided to take a chance because she's a real, natural talent.''

Armstrong first heard of Ana four years ago while on business in Miami, where the singer and her family settled after leaving their native Cuba in 1979. (The family has since relocated to Orlando.) A recording industry colleague recommended that he listen to a demonstration tape that Ana's father had sent to the studio. “The tape wasn't strong enough to convince me, so I asked her to sing a capella,” Armstrong said. “There was some magic that I heard in her voice and I knew all she needed was the right songs.” “She was born with that type of natural vocation,” said Ana's father, Miguel Rodriguez. “She would sing all day long while playing around the house, since she was 1. When she was about 9, I said, 'Oh my God, I think this is something serious here.”  At that point Ana began taking lessons with Miami-based voice teacher Gina Moretto, whose students have included the Bee Gees and Miami Sound Machine's Gloria Estefan.  Rodriguez said Miami Sound Machine leader Emilio Estefan Jr. was one of the first to propose a recording contract for his daughter. “But Emilio wanted her to record in Spanish, too, and I couldn't agree with that. She feels more comfortable singing in English. She has American soul. In the future, she'll sing in Spanish, Italian, Japanese. We want to make her an international talent. But now, our dream is to make her a big American talent.” Ana may have inherited her musical talent from her father, who continues to help guide her career. “I played drums in a rock group in Cuba when I was a young teen-ager. But it was nothing serious, because my family never supported me. I feel the music in my heart and I see that dream in my daughter.” Besides the full support of her father, Ana has the backing of her mother, also named Ana, and of little brother Miguel Jr. “I feel that her voice is a gift from God,” said the elder Ana Rodriguez. “She would put such feeling into songs and hit such notes, even when she was very little, that I knew this was something special. We've talked often about it. By now she knows that this is a very difficult career, that's it's not a game anymore. She's aware of all this, and, God willing, all will go well. She has been an exemplary daughter and we're very proud of her.”

And what is Ana's assessment of the fruits her talents have borne? “The only thing that has changed in my life is that now I can say to myself, 'I have an album, promotional pictures, and I met people CBS executives. There's nothing different. I'm still the same person. I still go to school. I still have the same friends. I look at this as a hard and really fun time. On the airplane en route to Los Angeles to meet the CBS executives, I was thinking, 'Oh my God, I hope they like me.' Then I thought, 'Well, if they do like me I'm going to have so much fun! I'll get to go out to restaurants and buy clothes.' So I started thinking of that.”

Parc Records president Armstrong (who also manages rockers Molly Hatchet) said that Ana's Cheek to Cheek appearances were intended to give her a small taste of the things to come. 

“If the album does what we think it will, she's going to be thrown out into some very big crowds very quickly. . . . CBS is looking to do Johnny Carson, David Letterman and all the morning shows. . . . We just want to kind of dip her in. It's like jumping into an ice cold pool. If you inch your way in, it's not so bad.” (article written by Agnes Torres)