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The Ginger Hustlers find their muse alive and well in Eugene.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Ginger Hustlers find their muse alive and well in Eugene.(Entertainment)(The transplanted band with a political bent finds a home in the West)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard

The Ginger Hustlers have called Eugene home since 2003, but they don't think of themselves as a local band.

Gina Kontur, Thom Witherow and Veigh moved to Eugene from Erie, Pa., to be closer to the strong support they had received from Jerry Joseph, a Portland-based songwriter who has penned songs for Widespread Panic and fronted the Jackmormons.

Witherow said that his only hesitation in moving away from the dreary, post-industrial, post-Sept. 11 surroundings in the East was that he might lose his muse. Maybe he would come to Eugene and just want to Hula-Hoop and plant flowers rather than come up with politically charged rock songs that conjure images of doom and corruption.

But Witherow has found that he's just as inspired on the West Coast. He has written dozens of songs that haven't made...

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