This is the "What did they do after Baraboo/ Where are they now?"
(Surprisingly, everyone stayed in the music business.)
After Baraboo
Rick Mann:
Played with Ray Garrison Windy City country for a year and a half (house band at Lake and Park Inn and Daddy Frank's Supper Club)
Rick then moved to Houston and played in BitterCreeke, and Isaac Payton Sweat Band at Winchester Club for 3 years. He then started doing a single act with back up tracks he recorded, worked clubs and Royal Carribean Cruise lines.
Rick moved to Phoenix, played various clubs for 2 yrs, then moved back to Houston…in 1999 he moved to Hampton Roads Virginia, playing in the Sidekicks, New City Sounds., and established a teaching business.
As well as playing Pedal Steel, Guitar and bass, Rick also took up Sax and recorded several albums of covers and originals; many were recorded in his home studio, and Rick played all the parts.
He recently moved to Wisconsin and continues teaching.
Chris Mitchell
Chris played drums in The Sidemen, the house band at Mr. Kiley's on Belmont for many years; the band later became Freewheel, and played the Chicagoland country circuit as well as Mr. Kiley's. well into the 1990's. Chris lives on the northside of Chicago and continues to play.
Mike Sassetti:
Mike continued playing guitar with and later took over leadership of the Ray Sassetti Orchestra, a big band featuring swing, jazz and pop favorites, which played many of the A-list venues in the Chicagoland area.
He had a thriving teaching practice, and was invited to teach at New Trier High School, as the Director and Jazz Coach where he won a Grammy in 2007, for Best Guitar Ensemble. Mike moved to Ft. Lauderdale where he still jobs and teaches.
Nick Sanabria
After Baraboo, I went to work at Leo Burnett writing ads for two years, and after I got fired (EVERYBODY gets fired from Burnett), I switched from bass to guitar and joined the Moondogs, a country/rock band which played the Chicago country circuit for 3 years. An archive of our recordings and videos are at www.moondogs1979.com.
I had been doing voice-overs since Burnett, and worked out of a home studio, until I built a big time recording studio downtown at 230 N. Michigan in 1985, and recorded commercials, voice-overs and jingles for 13 years; then built a bigger studio at 445 E. Ohio and worked there until 2010, before moving to a pro-home studio in Aurora. I have an online collection of my funny songs, vulgar comedy bits, and parody songs: nixonabria.com containing my one viral hit: The Horserace.
And you can still hear me on tv; I am the local voice of Fox32 Chicago.
Kent Rose kentrose.com
I started with the Baraboo Band in June 1974. We played Harry Hopes in Cary, Illinois several times. The songs you can hear at barabooband.com were recorded there one night and remastered by Nick Sanabria plus 3 tunes from a studio demo
Baraboo Band's last gig was at Wise Fools Pub in Chicago, April 1978. By that time I was pretty much broke so I went to work as a landscaper. That lasted until the paychecks started bouncing. I went to work at the post office as a letter carrier.
I was hanging around at Mr. Kiley's on Belmont, sitting in to sing a few with Freewheel, their excellent house band. There I ran into trumpet player Myron Weintraub. He heard me playing saxophone and mentioned a group forming to play Stax-Volt rhythm and blues - great stuff like Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, and Eddie Floyd. That endeavor became Alfonso and the Night Shift. It was my first experience as part of a horn section and not being the lead singer. We played Chicago clubs Tut's, Stages, Biddy Mulligan's and often shared the bill with new wave bands like BB Spin and Bohemia. We opened for Madness at the Park West and Delbert McClinton in Madison, Wisconsin. But ultimately, physical altercations took down the band.
After that I subbed for Guy Lawrence and his Opal City Poker Chips down at the Bar Double R, also known as The Ranch. The Ranch was in the basement at 52 W. Randolph, between the Greyhound bus station and the Woods Theater which was showing porn at the time. A legendary Western trio called The Sundowners was the main band. The 2 bands would do 30 minute sets, trading off 8 sets a night apiece.
The Sundowners liked my singing so I subbed for vacationing Bob Boyd, their rhythm guitarist and vocalist. That's when I started wearing a cowboy hat for the first time since I was a kid, because it was a Sundowner requirement. The Sundowners suggested changing my name to Ken Rose. I hung on to the Kent but accepted the Rose. It was a 2 week gig and I was getting home at 4 in the morning, working at the post office by day, then going to the club at night!
I later subbed with the Rattlers, an excellent Western swing group. I played loads of hardcore hillbilly gigs in Round Lake, North Chicago, and Kenosha with various bands, singing, playing rhythm guitar and tenor saxophone
In 1988 I joined the Ray Sassetti Orchestra which incuded Mike Sassetti. Now I was learning about society gigs, wearing a tux, and navigating the jobbing world, artistically making the awkward leap from Hank to Frank. I did that for 20 years, most of the time still delivering mail. I had bands Kent & the Whiz Kidz and Kent Rose and the Sensations that never really went anywhere. But I kept writing songs.
I did my first commercial in 1991 for Alaska Airlines, directed by Joe Sedelmaier, of "Where's the Beef?" and Fed Ex ads. It was shown on the West Coast. I played a guy in a cowboy hat yodeling desperately to get attention from the fight attendants. I never got to see it on TV, but the checks rolled in anyway.
In 2000, I cut my first CD, Depot and Diner, a 4 song EP recorded with full band. I was more comfortable playing live than in a recording studio, so my next disc, One Riot, One Ranger in 2006 was me solo with guitar, bashing out 16 tunes in an afternoon.plus the 4 songs from the previous session.
At clubs I played mostly solo, sometimes with bands, to promote the records. I opened many shows for roots artists from all over the world.
In 2009 I did a national commercial for U.S. Cellular as U.S. Cellular Customer Kent. The job involved writing a song from scratch while on camera and answering a special phone that people could call. This calling lasted from February to June, 2010. It got me some attention but music was still my main thing.
In 2015 I went to Nashville to cut a record produced by rockabilly legend Chris Casello. We cut in analog with many first takes at the Fry Pharmacy studio. That record, All That American Night, is my most recent disc and the one I hang my hat on. It is played all over the world!
Today I've got a cool band, Kent Rose and The Remedies, doing mostly my tunes, playing gigs, and yeah, I'm still writing!
Physical CDs of albums One Riot, One Ranger and All That American Night can be purchased by contacting kent@kentrose.com. Downloads can be obtained online.