WISCONSIN RAPIDS - Life dealt Michael Kinney some body blows, the kind of painful events that are a universal part of the human experience.
There was the divorce, shortly followed by the loss of Kinney s much-loved dog, Sammie the Sheltie, who died at age 13. Then Kinney s father Rich died, a popular musician and music teacher known in the Wisconsin Rapids for his steel guitar playing who guided his son onto a musical pathway as well. Then, as if fate hadn t handed him enough, Kinney s close friend and musical partner, Jeff Gauss, died at age 55 in June 2020 from frontal temporal lobe dementia and Lewy body dementia.
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Eli Young Band tour coming to Cedar Rapids March 24
Members of the Eli Young Band are (from left) James Young, Jon Jones, Mike Eli and Chris Thompson. The country hitmakers will be performing March 24 at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse arena in downtown Cedar Rapids. Physical distancing, face coverings and other pandemic protocols will be enforced. (Cal Quinn) By Alan Sculley, Last Word Features
The Eli Young Band had big plans for 2020, only to see almost everything torpedoed by the pandemic.
“We had a busy year planned,” said Mike Eli, the group’s singer/guitarist in a mid-February phone interview. “We were doing our first European tour. We also had our first full Canadian tour where we were going to go all the way across Canada. We had played a lot of shows there and we had played a lot of shows in Europe, but we had never gone to either place and done a full-fledged tour, a shore to shore kind of thing. So we had both of things planned in 2020, and obviously, those
There was one key thing on Jeremy McKinnon’s mind when A Day To Remember were in the studio working on their seventh album, You’re Welcome: just write
good songs. Rather than worrying about the Ocala gang’s beloved pop-punk-meets-metalcore formula that has taken them into arenas and the main stages of festivals across the world, the songwriter shut everything else out in order to make the
music his sole focus.
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