"Don't get me started about those dances," he says. Saturday, in his Baltimore hotel room, Malo hears about the line dancers and laughs. The syllables bend and stretch so slightly you barely notice, until you try to sing along. If you listen too closely, Malo will break your heart. These words are in the hands of a master, or rather the mouth of a master.
Singer Raul Malo has already gone to bed, but his voice comes through the speakers: "There goes my heart, breaking in two/ There go my eyes, crying over you." Could there be a more hackneyed couplet, a more typical country music cliche? But wait. Reynolds and Deakin smile as they hear the song they've played hundreds of times on this tour, which has lasted most of 1994. The Mavericks' single is a classic country shuffle, something that could have come off a vinyl platter by Ray Price or Buck Owens, circa 1958. Maybe the deejay notices, maybe not, but "There Goes My Heart" kicks in, and the dance floor swings with two-steppers. Leaning against the bar are two other Mavericks, bassist Robert Reynolds and drummer Paul Deakin, making nice with the fans. So, um, excuse me? "This stuff, what they call country music. Not a half-hour before on Friday night, the band finished up a concert of country music in front of more than 1,000 people in a huge banquet room across the lobby. He watches them move across the dance floor following the deejay's directions as regimented as a Marine platoon, then slams back a shot of Jack Daniels and says, "Man, I hate country music."įor the record, Kane is lead guitarist in the hottest country band on the circuit, the Mavericks (performing tonight at a sold-out Birchmere), whose second album for MCA Records, "What a Cryin' Shame," recently went gold (500,000 sold) and whose latest single, "There Goes My Heart," is climbing Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart. At the Host Resort Hotel in Lancaster, Pa., guitarist Nick Kane sits in the bar, his eyes on the line dancers in their black cowboy hats and Wranglers, in their drop-waisted denim skirts and hair spray.
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