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Just when things were going great â€"â€" even better than expected â€" David Martin felt the rug yanked from under his feet. He and partner Johnny Douglas, a.k.a. Hemingway Comer, had been enjoying unanticipated success following the 1993 release of their selfâ€"titled debut recording. ' : Martin, a native Georgian living in Los Angeles, and Douglas, a Canadian working as a songwriter and session musician in Nashville, were both writing for Sony Music‘s publishing company when they met and decided to join forces. f Their debut album, with its .. refreshing vocal harmonies and acoustic guitarWest Coast ' sound took the Canadian music scene by storm, winning fans 6 and critics alike. And it yielded ) f five Top 10 singles, including i Man on a Mission and Love, &'x:% Love, Love, which received genâ€" P k [ ) erous airplay on most radio forâ€" € ' But just as Canadian music fans were beginning to embrace the duo, Douglas, frusâ€" trated with the rigors of tourâ€" ing, decided to pack it in a return to Nashville to write and "I think being in a band and making records and touring and all that sounded really good in theory â€" you know, when you‘re home thinking about it, you think, ‘Wow, that‘s going to be cool‘," Martin says of Douglas® decision to leave the group. "We made the record and that was a ball ‘cause he‘s great in the stuâ€" dio. But as soon as we went on the road it was like ‘whoa‘ â€" he just wasn‘t happy. "When a band is first starting out, it‘s hell. You play the crappiâ€" est places and nobody knows your stuff and you‘re staying in bad hotels. It‘s just very demoralizing at first â€" very hard. He knew the work it was going to take for the band to be successful, and he was honest enough â€" and I really appreciate this â€" to say, ‘I don‘t think I‘m willing to do that work. I don‘t think that‘s for me.‘ He was a good writer and a good studio guy, so he could go back home, do that and make a living, be with his family, and be a happier person. So I respect him for doing that." While he respected and understood Douglas‘ decision, Martin was left with the question of what to do about Hemingway Corâ€" ner. Should he continue with the band â€" look to replace Douglas â€" or should he give it a go as a solo performer? "It was really tough. I was thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, maybe I‘m actually going to get somewhere with this music thing,‘ and then that kind of pulled the rug out. My first thought was, ‘Well is that it? Do we just call it quits or what?" But after sleeping on it a couâ€" ple of days, I was confident â€" and I don‘t mean this to be in any way derogatory â€" that, musically, him leaving was not the end of _ And it wasn‘t. in fact, with the addition of Canadian musicians Scott Dibble and Mark Sterling, Hemingway CorSner is not just bigger, it‘s better. Martin had heard of Dibble, who had worked Tuesday November 28th, 2:00 to 4:00p.m. & :7:30 to 9:00p.m. Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Hospital Auditorium 11th in a series of free events with the likes of Colin Linden, Bob Wiseman and the Barenaked Ladies (with whom he wrote New Kid on the Block and Be My Yoko Ono), and who had released two albums as Watertown (No Singing at the Dinner Table in 1989 and One Phoebe Street in 1992). Dibble‘s name kept coming up while Martin was looking for someone to team up with, and so, on a visit to Toronto, he gave Dibble a call. "In our very first conversation, he said, ‘Why don‘t we get together? But I‘ll tell you this, if by some chance we end up doing something together, I‘m working with a guy named Mark Sterling and I‘m committed to him musically and he would be somebody you‘d have to meet, too.‘ So mm ::ss>>> $ w . 3 in Toronto, and it started from 44 3 M MB Sterting knew they had a band. "It was the harmonies. We picked out some song that we all knew, and we were just kind of playing along, when "‘ we got to the chorus and we immediately went into a threeâ€" part harmony without any instruction or thought going into it," Martin says. "The very first time we sang there was this immediate blend of complementary voices, and we all just kind of went, ‘Damn. That sounds good.‘ | didn‘t know Scott or Mark and there was no reason to expect anything at all to come out of it, but we all kind of looked up in surprise. And that was it." The new Hemingway Corner released Under the Big Sky a few months ago, and it‘s already off to a great start. The first single, Big Sky, reached the number one spot on Canadian charts, as did its accompanying video. The new single, Watch Over You, is "doing fantastic", and the video is enjoying heavy rotation on narily talented singer/songwriter/musicians, each with his own disâ€" tinct style. Each takes his turn at writing and at singing lead vocals, and each supports the others when it‘s "their time to Under the Big Sky is proof that the new Hemingway Corner is not "the David Martin band" â€" that the new incamnation is, in fact, very much a team effort and a melding of three extraordiâ€" . "Now with Scott Dibble and Mark Sterling, it truly is a band and it truly is everything i hoped it would become," Martin says. "It‘s a lot more fun, for one thing â€" more guys to hang with and to _ lean on and to laugh with. Musically, Mark‘s primary instrument is electric guitar, so that brought a whole new sound. And Scott is a great acoustic player, but he‘s also an excellent electric player â€" he does some really ‘out there‘ stuff I never knew he could do. We all like similar stuff, yet we have our differences. And I think that‘s good. I think everybody can tell with the new album that there‘s a common thread going through there and that something‘s really happening. And it‘s just going to continue to happen." Hemingway Corner performs Saturday night (Nov. 25) at Lulu‘s with Juno awardâ€"winning artist Jann Arden. Tickets are $15 in Concemed about the amount of stress in your life? When stress makes it difficult to think straight or to control emotions, your plysical wellbeing may be affected. This year, open the safety vaive on pressure. Don‘t subject yourself to omm t ie e oi S ce re en e on n oo a e nas e eke +W HOSPITAL unnecessary pressure. Come, learn how to do this practically. '((:enlennial Join presenters Dr. David Rainham, Family Physician; George Vanderschaaf, Care to Celebrate Clinical Social Worker, and Caroline Woems, of the YMCA. 1895â€"1995 Free admission, no registration necessary. together, Martin, Dibble and Within minutes of playing D r o m o I Guys and Dolls Students at Bluevale Collegiate institute are busy preparing for their upcoming theatrical production of the hit Broadway musical Guys and Dolls. The play revolves around a variety of gamblers and their girls ~â€" around the trouble that follows when a guy finds it hard to choose between the pounding of his heart and the roiling of the dice. Guys and Dolls incorporates two love stories. The first involves Nathan Detroit, a small but hotâ€"shot gambier, and Miss Adelaide, a night club cutie, who have been engaged for 14 years and whose nuptials have been repeatedly postponed due to a series of floating crap ve & ts games. The other romance o'fggyzlf@ involves Sky Masterson, a bigâ€" ul time, freeâ€"living, freeâ€"loving ( I o plunger, and Sarah Brown, a Salâ€" «<â€" O vation Army girl and head of the H‘l [“ runâ€"down Saveâ€"aâ€"Soul Mission. BCI‘s production of Guys and Dolls will presented at the school Nov. 29 through Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. nightly. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for _ The popular Celtic duo Anderson and Brown will give a special preâ€"Christmas concert in Waterioo to celebrate the release of their new recording, in the Moon of the Winâ€" The Ontario premiére of Saucy Jack runs Thursday through Saturday at the Water Street Theatre in King Value Centre. Tickets are $15 or less for adults and $12.50 for students and seniors. For reservations, call the box office at 571â€"0928. Anderson and Brown give preâ€"Christmas concert The album is the group‘s third recording and features a number of versions of popular seasonal pieces such as What Child is This and Silent Night, as well as a number of lesser known selections. Anderson and Brown will perform at The Waterioo Community Arts Centre (The Button Factory), Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at Provident Bookstore (140 Uniâ€" versity Ave. W.) and at the Waterioo Showtime box office (Waterloo Recreation Complex). To reserve tickets by phone, call the box office at 886â€"2375. Saucy Jack held over Theatre & Company‘s production of Saucy Jack by twoâ€" time Governor General award winner Sharon Poliock has been held over until Nov. 25. â€" Saucy Jack opened Nov. 3 at the Water Street Theatre to an audience that included the playwright herself. The psyâ€" chological thriller explores the meeting of three English gentlemen in a deserted Victorian country home. They engage in a game of intrigue and suspense with a fourth character â€" an actress hired for the evening to play the roles of five women murdered by the notorious Jack the