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With a firm belief that blending marriage with a creative partnership is NOT for the feint of heart, Bev Barnett and Greg Newlon forge through life raising four teenagers, promoting folk and acoustic music in their community and writing and performing their original music together. They blends fiery guitar work with soulful harmonies, producing a sophisticated, contemporary acoustic sound that gets up and walks.

In live performance Bev and Greg speak from their hearts to the heart of the audience. The connection they have with each other seems contagious and soon the audience is sharing in tears and laughter seen through the eyes of a very real relationship.

They host the TrueWind Music House Concert Series and promote acoustic and folk music in the San Jose, Calif. area. Bev is on the board of directors for Folk Alliance Region West (www.FAR-West.org

More About Bev: Roots music runs deep for this native Texas girl, fed by many summers listening to uncles and grandparents picking on the porch. Guitars, fiddles and mandolins were a staple, right up there with sweet tea and black eyed peas.

Transplanted to California at an early age, Bev took up the clarinet in the 4th grade. Then flute in 6th grade. Saxophone in 7th. Bassoon in 8th. She tried the French horn in 9th, but found out brass wasn't her thing. The whole spit valve issue was less than appealing. Moving from California to Illinois during high school, music always gave her a place to belong. She eventually ended up choreographing color guard rifle routines for the Northern Illinois University Huskie Show Band. Staying in the woodwind section would have been safer.

Music was absent from her life through much of the 80s and 90s - which means she probably didn't miss much. After meeting Greg in the late 1990s, she began singing with him and the immediate response was about this amazing blend that happened between their voices, likened to sibling harmonies. Mark Whittington was entertainment editor of the San Jose Mercury News at the time and he called it "bedroom harmony, or kitchen table harmony." No matter what you call it, it works.

More About Greg: He's shared a cigarette with Jim Morrison, and he's shown a room full of fourth graders that any song can be played in bluegrass style. The fourth graders were more appreciative.

As a child, Greg began harmonizing with his mother as she sang and played the ukulele and organ. He picked up his first guitar at 13, and was performing with a local Chicago band at 14. His life-long musical experience is varied, including choirs, barbershop quartet, musical theatre, and bands representing every style from blues to rock. Greg’s barbershop influence is evident in the harmony he marries to Bev’s sometimes sultry, sometimes innocent, lead vocals. Greg played in local bands in and around Chicago during the 1960s and 70s and was active in the Aspen music scene of the late 1970s playing country rock. After moving to California in 1979, Greg found himself cursed with the need to make a living. Ignoring his musical muse, he didn’t pick up a guitar for 15 years. In the mid-90s he began performing with various classic rock, blues and country bands in the San Francisco Bay Area, then teaming up with Bev in 1998.

The story behind sharing the cigarette with Jim Morrison? It was 1967. The Midwest Hydraulic Company consisted of four young kids who caught a break and got booked to open for the Doors on the mid-West leg of their tour. Ask Greg about it and he'll say "We were 17. We sucked." read more at www.bevandgreg.com.

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Song	Album	Length	Played	Overall	You	Tags	Single Request
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I Believe In You And Me	Any Doorway Will Do	4:05	2	2 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
When The Evening Comes	Any Doorway Will Do	4:40	2	2 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.
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• Spotlighted: Thursday, December 27th 2007
• Songs on WWR: 10
• Total plays: 27
• Total requests: 25
• Total listens: 824
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