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I hursdav, February: , Thijrsday, February 3, 2000 AGG7FUFE THE BATTALION Page 3 mi, approved foo si increase per oti .'c Sh per credit M Accents also anp’ ie and no experf 1 >eople and get in J • ! p.m. - 7:30 p.(tt/’ l for details. >d interviewings^; f p.m. check blues? 1 )5 2833. )ible study, fun, 3^ ran Church locate: rviewing skills a 1 ' n. in Rudder. Che." Ripple at 696# . February 8, I'M 1 will be a discuss . Contact Jason F' ON 10(0 Editor > Editor l<, Graphics Editoi . Graphics Editor tltt News Editor IT. Radio Producer ii. Web Editor ciencc & Technology 3s. Bradley Atchison, e Turner, Patric Schneider.® imith, Elizabeth O' FarreO 1 llanueva & Susan Redding Tuenes, Eric Andraos,Jeffte)S' n, Richard Home. David Spa® ' Kevin Turner, Sean Gillespie ant: Cristina Padron; BethAI'W* ie Bennett. Brooke Corso.Ma 5 ff. Carrie Jacobs. Melissa Me** Siegel & Audrey Bohlmann. Noni Sridhara: Whitney SW* 1 Locker, Chris Carter. i@f - Judy White, Scott Jenin* 1 ski. he Division of Student Media, a ■ phone: 845-3313; Fat: alion. For campus, local, and naW™! 015 Reed McDonald, and offte"M o single copy olThe Battalion. Wj? nesler and $17,50 for the sun««« Cory Morrow returns to College Station to record new music video, live album Right: Morrow shown at a concert at Shadow Canyon last year. Tonight’s performance is among those that will be used in his next video and a live CD to be released in April. BY SCOTT HARRIS The Battalion long with the rise in popularity of Texas music, it seems there is a new breed of Texas outlaws running rampant through the Lone Star state, and Cory Morrow has a strong ar gument to be the ringleader. Instead of playing his Jan. 29 show in Conroe, he spent the night in jail. Clay Claflin, Mor row’s manager, said the incident stemmed from a bad parking job by Morrow. “Cory drove to go eat,” Claflin said. “He had the truck with the trailer on it and 1 guess it was sticking out a bit. The police came to write him a ticket and they ran his plates and saw that he had a few unpaid tickets. The whole thing sucked; we went down and paid the warrants, but we couldn’t get him out until 11 the next morning.” Despite the fact that Texas musicians have historically had the rep utation for being outside the law, Morrow said the country music scene is moving away from Nashville and to ward Texas. “It’s turning. The worm is turning,” Morrow said. “It’s making a change to ward us. We’re the big thing right now. 1 think it’s all going to focus on us. Pat [Green], myself. Jack [Ingram] and Charlie [Robison.] Everybody that’s coming up out of the state.” Texans have always enjoyed their independence and freedom, and Mor row is no different, only he has a dif ferent kind of perspective. “The whole idea we’re pushing is the independent thing,” Morrow said. “We don’t have a record label and we’re not going to go to a record label. We see what they do and how they do it. We believe that if you have enough money you can do whatever you want.” Instead of big record deals and cor porate funding. Morrow relies on his fan base for support. “The crowds are really liking what our kind of music is doing,” Morrow said. “Pat, Owen, Roger [Creager] — we are all on our own. We.need to take advantage of it and do as much as we can ourselves.” Morrow’s recent success has skyrock eted him straight to the top of the mar quee. Instead of playing second fiddle, he is now headlining most of his shows. “We’ve had an amazing stroke of luck,” Morrow sgid. “We’ve been get ting larger crowds and selling more CDs. Everywhere we go it seems there are a few more people than there were the last time. That’s always what you* want to have happen.” Morrow has been playing for six years and has seen his success gradual ly come to fruition. “We’ve seen it real slow, real grad ual,” Morrow said. “Literally, in the past couple of months, every time we go somewhere the number of people have doubled. It’s a real good thing. I can’t complain — there’s a lot of guys who have played a lot longer than I have who don’t enjoy my success.” Morrow said he cannot place his fin ger on the reason why his success has grown in the past few months. “I don’t know how to explain it, we’ve got a much better band, and we’ve had more fun,” Morrow said. “I know I’ve had more fun; I enjoy screw ing with the crowd more. I think I’m See Morrow on Page 6. What: Cory Morrow Video Shoot When: Thursday 8 p.m. Where: Shadow Canyon CODY WAGES/Tm Battalion she says, "Cd call my friends bjack home to invite the : , Wine party at my new irt ■ ent/ he savs, "I d calf the f thi'Sio rno Wine party l Tin some brews ” WE’D LIKE TO KNOW. Register now at receive up to 200 FREE minutes. TeleGea is about instant, on-line communications that save you time and money. and spring semesters anil F A&M University Periodicals Wj] -d McDonald Building, Ie«as m teleG eacom