swam, and soon emerged as a talented singer, musician and composer in his own right. choicesâ€"sink or swim. So he When Stan died, Garnet, who had worked in his legendary brother‘s shadow for most of his He‘s spent his entire life being a musician, gaining early recogâ€" nition beside his brother Stan, with whom Garnet worked‘ as a sideman, fiddle player and backâ€" up musician, until Stan‘s death in "I realized that, if that‘s what folk music is, I don‘t even like folk music, and if that‘s the case, then maybe I‘m not even a real folk singer." Rogers is, quite simply, a sinâ€" ger of songs. Good songs, strong songs, ‘‘songs that are wellâ€"writâ€" ten and meaningful,‘‘ he says. Even if he may not fit into a preâ€" defined niche, Rogers has more than proven he is.strong enough to carve out his own. The experience, he says, brought him to an important real ization about himself. it‘s an image that‘s stuck in the _ past, stuck in the lore of the tumultuous‘60s when folk music was in its heyday. But it‘s an image that frustrates Garnet Rogers. It‘s a stereotype that has even led him, one ofâ€" Canada‘s. .most respected: folk artists, to question his own idenâ€" tity and capability as a musician. ‘‘A couple of months ago, t was listening. to this radio program, ‘ and, after about an hour I felt like throwing something at the radio. All they played were these outâ€" ; dated 1964 versions of everyâ€" j thing. It was like folk music had lived and died between 1963 and But, with the release of his A folk singer for the 905 hirkce â€" Singer/songwriter Garnet Roâ€" â€" gers is in Kâ€"W for two shows, â€" Feb. 6 and 7 at The Princess ; Cinema in Waterloo. latest album, Small Victories, Roâ€" , gers has taken another giant step . _ as a performer. This is the first album of his own songs, at least ; _ ones he will admit to. _ ‘‘Writing songs is like using any _ muscle. You have to use it a lot _ before you get good; you have to â€"â€" write aâ€"lot of bad songs before _ you get any good ones. | wrote a . lot of bad songs and I was loathe to inflict them on an audience.‘ But there came a day, says Rogers, when he began to run out of material and it reached crisis proportions when he was working on his third album. "‘I was looking for material and couldn‘t find anything. | knew what I wanted and kept saying, why won‘t someone write a song about this or that. Then it hit me and 1 thought, silly bugger, why not just do it yourself?"‘ And he, although he used to say they were written by someone else, and much to his surprise, his audiences loved them. So Rogers began to write more, and while driving his car across the Peace Bridge early one morning, the first line of the title track of Small Victories popped into his mrustines ing, videos and industry hype. His mother sells his records, a friend coordinates his schedule, and Rogers‘ music does the rest. ""I want my songs to stand on their own, to live or die on their own merits, that‘s the kind of performer | want to be." 4 Garnet Rogers can be seen in Waterioo Wednesday, February 6 and Thursday February 7 at the start at 8 p.m going to begin another folk boom. It‘s this diversity and range of ability that sets Garnet Rogers apart from the rest and it‘s a solitude he cultivates. He doesn‘t believe in publicity tours, marketâ€" ‘‘I was fishing for quarters to pay a toll, and all of a sudden, this line just popped into my head. i hadn‘t been thinking about music at all, but there it was and | liked it so | wrote it dowri. | had the whole song written by the time | hit 50 Westmount Rd. N. Waterloo (Westmount Place) GIFT SHOP 18 P°ARKST., WaATERLOO CreativeBacbets ENTERTAINMENT ZONE. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY: 6, 1991 â€" PAGE EZ11 747â€"2424 NOW TAKING ORDERS Dairy Queen Frozen Cake or Log Mmimmmmmi! Rich layers of smooth vanilla and chocolate Dairy Queen soft serve with delicious dark fudge and crisp chocolate crunch in between Choose from our display. Or phone a day ahead for your special Valentine order Make them yours this Vaientine‘s Day with a Dairy Queen Frozen Cake or Log. o k give!dutrs'safleg!mrmywflwm EAT YOUR HEART OUT WITH A DAIRY QUEEN CAKE OR LOG. ‘We‘re More Than Just Great Baskets‘ (between Union and John Streets) e HOURS: Mon. to Thurs. 10:30â€"5:30 742â€"1171 Fri. 10:30â€"8; Sat. 10:00â€"3 M Say "I love you" with a basket from Creative Baskets. P Whether you choose food or bath products, you‘ll know you are giving