Scott DuBose

4-7-2010 Article: NWI Times.

SCOTT DUBOSE AND THE 101 RANCH
“This is not your father’s country music, this is ranch rock!” Scott DuBose is one of the biggest up and coming country/rock singers in the United States. His music is a blend of everything from rock and rap to country and western and if he had to use words to describe his music, he would call it Ranch Rock. Country music is his music, but he also grew up listening to Run DMC, Metallica, and the Ramones. His parent’s always had music playing throughout the house. His father is what he would describe as “more than a little bit country.” And his mother was definitely “rock and roll.” Scott says, “I grew up with a pretty wild mix of music. Everything from Merle Haggard to AC/DC and in between.”
Scott got his start when he was very small. Music has always been a large part of his life. And he still has a report card from his first grade teacher who noted how much he liked to sing. However, he got his professional start on the country music scene in 2003. He was working as the lead singer in the house band at the show “Tony and Tina’s Wedding” in Chicago when he started the 101 Ranch Band. Scott says, “It was a real trip. I would do a show at Tony and Tina’s and then run across town to do a show with the Ranch.”
Scott has been extremely lucky with his members of the band. He is playing with a lot of talent and the band got its start because Scott thinks that good musicians kind of gravitate toward each other and that good players like to work with others who challenge them. The members of the 101 Ranch Band are Herman Winkler on drums, Mark Madison on keyboards, Pat Lyons on guitar, pedal steel, and mandolin, and David Malatesta on bass. The band played their first show at a club in West Chicago. The club, unfortunately, closed last year, but the last band to play there was the New Kids on the Block.
Currently, Scott is working with a great independent label called Sweet Pickle Music and is currently working on his second CD. His first CD (self-titled) was released in 2008. Perseverance is what has made Scott and the 101 Ranch so successful. When starting out, country music in Chicago was a hard sell; however it has definitely worked in Scott’s favor. He has had some big accomplishments. The first is he has the freedom to do the music that he wants to do, his way. The second is having played with the artists that he has been able to play shows with. Scott has played with artists Gretchen Wilson, Montgomery Gentry, Jason Aldean, Chris Cagle, and Charlie Daniels. But according to Scott, his biggest accomplishment is “having people like what I do. That really means the most to me.”
You can check out Scott DuBose and the 101 Ranch on Friday April 9 at The Warehouse in Valparaiso, Indiana. For more information, check out www.scottdubose.com, www.facebook.com/scottdubose, www.myspace.com/scottdubose, www.digitalrodeo.com/scottdubose.

- NWI Times

Scott Dubose & the 101 Ranch
July 2nd, 2010 by Barlifemag 1 Comment “This is not your father’s country music, this is ranch rock!” Scott DuBose is one of the biggest up and coming country/rock singers in the United States. His music is a blend of everything from rock and rap to country and western and if he had to use words to describe his music, he would call it Ranch Rock. Country music is his music, but he also grew up listening to Run DMC, Metallica, and the Ramones. His parents always had music playing throughout the house. His father is what he would describe as “more than a little bit country” and his mother was definitely “rock and roll.” Scott says, “I grew up with a pretty wild mix of music. Everything from Merle Haggard to AC/DC and in between.”

Scott got his start when he was very small. Music has always been a large part of his life. He even still has a report card from his first grade teacher who noted how much he liked to sing. However, he got his professional start on the country music scene in 2003. He was working as the lead singer in the house band at the show “Tony and Tina’s Wedding” in Chicago, when he started the 101 Ranch Band. Scott says, “It was a real trip. I would do a show at Tony and Tina’s and then run across town to do a show with the Ranch.”

Scott has been extremely lucky with his members of the band. He is playing with a lot of talent and the band got its start because Scott thinks that good musicians kind of gravitate toward each other and that good players like to work with others who challenge them. The members of the 101 Ranch Band are Herman Winkler on drums, Mark Madison on keyboards, Pat Lyons on guitar, pedal steel, and mandolin, and David Malatesta on bass. The band played their first show at a club in West Chicago. The club, unfortunately, closed last year but the last band to play there was the New Kids on the Block.

Currently, Scott is working with a great independent label called Sweet Pickle Music and is working on his second CD. His first CD (self-titled) was released in 2008. Perseverance is what has made Scott and the 101 Ranch so successful. When starting out, country music in Chicago was a hard sell, however, it has definitely worked in Scott’s favor. He has had some big accomplishments. The first is he has the freedom to do the music that he wants to do, his way. The second is having played with the artists that he has been able to play shows with. Scott has played with artists Gretchen Wilson, Montgomery Gentry, Jason Aldean, Chris Cagle, and Charlie Daniels. But according to Scott, his biggest accomplishment is “having people like what I do. That really means the most to me.”

You can check out Scott DuBose and the 101 Ranch at www.scottdubose.com, www.facebook.com/scottdubose, www.myspace.com/scottdubose, www.digitalrodeo.com/scottdubose.
- http://barlifemag.com

This ain’t your father’s country
August 12, 2010 By Stephanie Kohl Leave a Comment
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Share When Scott DuBose takes the stage at the first annual Rockin’ on the River Ribfest, concert-goers will be treated to what this local artist calls, “Ranch Rock.”

On Saturday, opening for country music star Chris Cagle, DuBose will open the Miller Lite Main Stage starting at 7 p.m. While DuBose firmly believes the best thing an independent artist can do is play to the audience and put on a great show every single time, fans should expect non-stop energy from this country crooner.

“I’m a high energy guy,” DuBose said the week of the show. “I’m a big person on stage. I run around the stage. I can’t stand in one place with my guitar.”

DuBose got his start in music at a young age. Growing up, he split his time between the south side of Chicago and Southern Mississippi, where country was always on the radio. His father bought DuBose his first guitar when he was only five or six years old.

“I’ve always had music around and I’ve been real lucky my parents encouraged it,” he said.

It wasn’t until he reached 11 that DuBose was really exposed to rock ‘n roll, which he has incorporated into his country sound. While he bills himself as a country artist, DuBose’s musicians do not come from a country music background.

“Everybody wants a good country sound, but they also want a really good rock sound,” he said.

DuBose keeps himself busy playing close to 100 shows each year. He began performing with “The 101 Ranch,” the band he started in 2003, but went solo about five years ago. His performances are mostly central to the Midwest, which has gained popularity in the area in the last few years. As his biography states: “This is not your father’s country music, this is ranch rock!” Stating that Country music has evolved and grown into something that has been accepted into the mainstream.

While DuBose acknowledges that some people are initially turned off by what they think country music is, he challenges them to spend 24 hours listening to country music and not love the stories and heart of the music.

“It’s the soul,” DuBose said of his love for country music, adding it really tells stories about everyday life. “The music has got so much soul and so much heart… It’s a music that touches your heart.”

Entry to the new Rockin’ on the River Ribfest, held at Freedom Center, 560 W. Grand Ave., is $10 for general admission and $25 for VIP tickets. Tickets can be purchased at the gate or online at www.rockinriverchicago.com. VIP tickets include access to the VIP Rockin’ Lounge, complete with premium viewing of main stage performances, food buffet and a full cash bar.

The three-day festival on the Chicago River will showcase the nation’s best barbecue joint and performances by DuBose, Chris Cagle and Colt Ford (Sunday) as well as some other local non-country favorites. The fest is open from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday (Aug. 13) and Saturday (Aug. 14); and 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday (Aug. 15).
- http://countrymusicchicago.com

101 RANCH
High Energy Country That Rocks!



by Ernie Thomas
Taking their name in tribute to a turn of the century base camp for the old “Wild West” shows that featured the likes of Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickcock and Calamity Jane – 101 Ranch – musters up plenty of that old time show biz quality of leaving their audience entertained and satisfied.

The Chicago-based country group was founded in 2003 by veteran stage performer/comedian, Scott DuBose, who studied for two years at Chicago’s famed Second City and spent four years starring in the acclaimed hit musical, “Tony and Tina’s Wedding”.

“I played five roles in that show, but primarily I was Donnie Dolche, the lead singer in the (wedding) band,” he said, noting that he did over forty shows working with former teen idol, Frankie Avalon. DuBose left the cast in October of last year to concentrate all of his energy on 101 Ranch.

“One thing that working in “Tony and Tina’s Wedding” taught me is that people come out to have fun. They are there to have a good time. A lot of country bands, well bands in general, don’t put a lot of energy into their show and their performance. I make a point to be ‘Mr. Energy’ at our shows. I get out there and dance on the tables and get out there with the audience and bring them into the show and make them a part of what’s happening.”

DuBose had never sung until going into theatre. That was a trigger for him to expand his entertainment dreams and try his hand as singing the country music that surrounded him as a child.

“My dad was from Mississippi, so there was always country music playing at our house,” he recalled, adding that working at Chicago country music club, Lake In Park Inn during the late 1980s only fueled his love of the music genre.

“At the time we started 101 Ranch, there really weren’t too many country bands working in the Chicago area. There are a few more now, but back then it the competition was pretty slim for gigs, unlike the thousands of rock bands around here who are all trying for the same gigs.”

“We had a couple of guys in the group who just weren’t cutting the mustard, so we started looking for a new rhythm section and that is when Troy Teegerstrom, who is the only guy still in the group with me from the original line-up told me he knew the perfect guys,” said DuBose.

Teegerstrom is the band’s “swing man”, swinging as the music dictates from keyboards, pedal steel, mandolin, banjo, guitar and backing vocals. He knew drummer Mark Price and bassist Curt Durham had just parted ways with the acclaimed Hoosier country band, Western Haze.

“We called them up and things just clicked,” said DuBose. “Things have really been moving fast since we got Curt and Mark in the group.”

101 Ranch’s first gig with the new groove section impressed a club’s owners so much, that halfway through the band’s set, a tray of shots was brought to the stage and the owners asked DuBose right on stage to please come back in two weeks and open for national country hit-makers, Blackhawk.

They did that Blackhawk gig and have since been working steadily throughout an expansive five state radius. “We pretty much can work as much as we want to work,” said DuBose, who keeps his band red hot and well-rehearsed by keeping their calendar filled.

Rounding out the band on lead guitar is a remarkably string-bender by the name of Bob Mickey, who trained at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston and spent time in Los Angeles as a studio session musician, working on projects with such artists as Leon Russell, Chaka Kahn, John Hiatt and Earth, Wind & Fire.

Mickey was DuBose’s first choice as lead guitarist when he put together the group, but the fret man was otherwise committed elsewhere.

“Bob came in about three months later,” recalled the singer. “Our first guitarist wasn’t working out and like kismet, Bob just happened to suddenly be available.”

Presently, a live 101 Ranch concert is all cover material that is largely upbeat and fast-paced music. The guys are writing their own material for what is expected to be a late fall/early winter recording session to produce the first 101 Ranch album.

Folks going to see this group can expect to hear largely modern country hits by the likes of Montgomery Gentry, Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson and Toby Keith.

Some classic rock staples like Bob Seger’s “Turn The Page” and Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May” are offered up in a “countrified fashion” that DuBose says makes the songs their own.

“People always seem to have a good time at our shows,” he concluded. “I guess that is why we keep coming back. Cronies is a great room to play and has a great crowd of country music fans. We’re looking forward to getting back out there in front on them.”


For more on the band, log on at: www.101Ranchband.com

101 Ranch perform October 14 with The Charlie Daniels Band

@ The Pearl Room in Mokena, Illinois


- Midwest Beat