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BY
JANET PASKIN
Daily Trail Staff
Five years ago, Linda Chorney was
singing cover tunes at Trail's End dur-
ing apres ski. Now she's preparing to
break on to the music industry's radar
screen with superstar force.
While in Vail. Chorney figures she
was playing maybe 30 percent origi-
nal work, the rest covers.
"I just kept adding more and more
original music, until it became 99
percent my music," she said. "I was
kind of over doing the cover songs,
and I was just more into doing my
original music."
With enough original music in her
repertoire to record a CD, Chorney
independently produced and released
"My Blunt Instrument."
The effort was enough to get her
noticed by independent movie direc-
tor Harri James, who contacted
Chorney about using some of her
songs in her upcoming feature length
film "Out of These Rooms."
"She (the director) spoke to me
because she was really excited about
my songs. She said the lyrics were
perfect for the character," said
Chorney. The character, as it turned
out, was a female singer songwriter
who marries the wrong guy and ends
up in a 12 step program for sexual
codependence.
"I said, 'oh yeah, I'm an actress,
too.' I had done a couple of plays in
high school and college, I figured I
could do it," said Chorney. "So they
flew me out for a screen test and I got
the part. So now I'm an actress."
The screen experience will help
when Chorney goes into filming for
her new music video. Chorney met
director Forrest Murray (Bob
Roberts, The Spitfire Grill) by chance
on the street in LA one day, and after
hearing her perform in New York,
he
agreed to direct her video for free.
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"That's very
exciting," said Chorney. "He's got so much
integrity, I'm really excited to work with him."
In fact, Chorney appears to have all of her ducks in a row;
a major career seems to be just around the corner. Major fig-
ures in the music industry have supported her, including John
Kiehl, the owner of Soundtrack Studios in New York who
donated over $100,000 of studio time for Chorney's new
album, "Racing with Reality."
As a result, said Chorney, she was able to take as much
time as she needed on the album, a labor of love which has
paid off with radio play around the country.
Tony Mauro, Director of Programming for Radio One
Networks, a network of 13 stations based in Vail, just put
Chorney's song "Rooster" into rotation in all 13 markets.
"I think it's a very good song," said Mauro.
"It's very
hooky, very catchy. That song in particular tells a story,
paints a really interesting picture. It's good, it's very good."
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Chorney has been playing
and singing since she was 10
years old. After six years of piano lessons, Chorney switched to guitar.
"I took one lesson and then quit," she said.
"They were
teaching scales and things, and I said, I don't want to learn
that, I want to write songs, So I went home and taught myself chords. I also
make up my own chords."
Chorney came from a musical family. Her mother was a
concert pianist, a great aunt was an opera singer, and her
grandfather played the mandolin. As a result, her family has
always been supportive of Chorney's professional aspirations,
always coming to gigs, in resort communities or biker bars.
As for Chorney herself, she says she's always known she
would be a performer.
"Since the day I was born," she said. "I was
always a ham."
Linda Chorney will ham it up,
playing new songs and old
favorites at the Brush Creek Saloon in Eagle Friday night at
7:30 and at the Club in Vail Village Monday at 9.
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