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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
There’s a new band around but it’s composed of some very familiar faces.
The Outcasts, a five-member group from Rappahannock, Culpeper, Fauquier and Orange counties, offers music from the late ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
“It’s oldies, classic rock and MoTown,” singer and guitarist Mike McKeown said.
Mr. McKeown is a familiar face in the local music world.
An Amissville resident, Mr. McKeown played in Gashouse, Gashouse Dirty, Perfect Strangers, Cool Ray and the Cruisers, Mike and the Motors and Alley Cat.
“I gave it up for a while,” he said of his music, adding after “a while I decided I wanted an R&B band, one that could play oldies and classics.”
Hoping to put together a new band, he talked with fellow musicians Jim Vaughn of Culpeper and Eddie Holler of Warrenton.
“My old road manager Tommy Gentry kept telling me he had a wife that could sing,” Mr. McKeown said, adding “people tell me that all the time.”
He took the words with some doubt.
Sometime later, Mr. McKeown happened to meet Jamie Gentry of Orange.
“We started singing to the jukebox and I said to myself, ‘Wow, she really can sing,’ ” he said.
The match was made and Mrs. Gentry joined the band.
“I wasn’t used to singing the style,” she said, shaking her head.
Mrs. Gentry started singing country-style music several years ago in Northern Virginia.
“I was a professional dancer with the Northern Virginia Dance Company,” she said, adding after several years as a dancer she turned to music.
“I sang in clubs and wrote some music,” she said, adding one song
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