Cabin Fever got together in the spring of 2007. The band got its start with an advertisement posted locally in Walker, Minnesota.  JIll plays drums and sings. Jack plays key boards, Burton  is on bass guitar and Steve is the lead vocal and guitarist.  The band plays a variety of music - some old and some new, with songs like Brown Eyed Girl, Gimme Three Steps, Honky Tonk Woman, It's All Been Done, by the Bare Naked Ladies, Tracy Chapman’s Give Me One Reason, also Pink Houses and Small Town by John Mellencamp, Your Mama Don't Dance, and Queen’s, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Fat Bottomed Girls. 

Cabin Fever has played in a variety of venues around Walker, Bemidji and Detroit Lakes.

Band Bios

Jack Gyldenvand

Burton Haugen

Jill Anderson

I started playing drums in the 6th grade.  Music was always a huge part of my life as there wasn’t a time that I can remember when my dad wasn’t playing bass in a band, or looking for some group to sit in with. I also played and sang whenever I could. I went to UW - Madison where I double majored in voice and percussion.  I was a member of the singing and dancing groups “The Kids From Wisconsin” and the “Wisconsin Singers”.  Following a teaching stint as a music teacher for kids in grades 3 through 8 in Monona Grove, WI, I began a career as a school principal in Minneapolis, Robbisdale and Lakeville, MN.  Upon retiring from that world my husband and I moved “Up North” where I was again able to begin using my voice and my music skills. I am the Worship and Music coordinator at Hope Lutheran Church.  I also play drums and sing in “Hope’s House Band”.  When I was invited to sit in with Cabin Fever, I thought I was going to be the “fill in” drummer.  As time went on, I guess I am the drummer and I’m loving it. 

Jack started his professional musical career in a group called “The Church Keys,” often compared to “The Fabulous Flippers” from Kansas City.    “The Church Keys” were a nine piece horn show band popular in the five state area and Canada from around ‘65-’68.  Known for their fabulous musicianship and stage show they entertained the college aged  crowd and had a huge following wherever they performed.  “The Church Keys” fronted for “The Association”, “The Who” and other national bands.  Jack’s keyboard style is often compared to the R & B rhythms popularized by the likes of Ray Charles, Charles Brown and Pine Top Perkins.  He is at his best when unleashed into a solo during a classic like “Mustang Sally”.  Also know as “The Professor” he is often likely to launch into a hip shaking description of how a song’s rhythm SHOULD be played.  A song like the Rolling Stone’s “Honky Tonk Woman” will trigger a good description of why it needed to have that “funky strut”.  Believe it or not Jack has a twin sister.  According to Jack, “She got all the looks and the brains”.  She also plays piano albeit with the aid of sheet music.  Jack can’t be bothered with that sort of thing, it just slows him down.

Several years ago when our church in Walker wanted to add some contemporary music and there was no bass player, I offered to give it a try after my wife reminded me about my brief bass guitar experience 40 years ago in high school.  We were the Rebels and actually made $30 playing for a spring fling.    Music and performing started 50 years ago, at county fair 4-H talent contests. I was involved in many areas of vocal and instrumental music in high school and early college.   School, family and work took over the next 30+ years.  That brings us back to our House Band at church.   Jill and I talked a couple years ago about how much fun if would be to see if we could put together a R&R band and even play at some local events and venues.   The last year has been a wonderful work in progress and it has been exciting to work with all who have been a part of the transition to the present Cabin Fever. This includes the support of our respected spouses , especially my wife Rollie who tolerates the noise in our basement every week...

 When not practicing bass guitar, Burton can be found practicing Family Medicine at the MeritCare Clinic in Walker.

I was 10 years old when I got my first guitar, an acoustic that I traded for my first electric guitar a solid body Supro and a Silvertone amp from Sears. I learned to play along with a Dwayne Eddy record called Rebel Rouser. He was vastly influential, perhaps the most successful instrumental electric guitar rocker of his time. Soon The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the other British bands came onto the scene, I formed a band with some friends of mine called “The Outcasts.” Another neighborhood band that we competed against for a chance to perform at the Friday night dances called me up after we lost and asked me to join them. We became “Mozart’s Mafia” and stayed together until graduation playing at Southwest High school sock hops and even playing at rival Washburn high school dances. We auditioned for an agent who then took over our bookings getting us into local bars like George’s in the Park and bigger dances at the U of M. This led to some outrageous fraternity parties where we went over big. Over a 4 year period we went from a four piece group to a horn band complete with saxophone, trumpet and Hammond B3 keyboard. After a 2 year trip to Germany provided by Uncle Sam and 4 years of college, I played briefly in a blue grass band called “35W Blues”. we competed at the Minnesota state fair amateur band contest. After a long period of retirement I answered an ad in City Pages for a singer guitarist to join a blues band. We called ourselves “Blues Deluxe” and played around the twin cities area at small biker bars.  After 3 years of that things broke up and I moved up north to Longville. My wife Margie and I started singing at the local coffee house in Longville and entertained folks at Maycreek Lodge and Grandma Joe’s in Walker. One afternoon I was invited to come to an afternoon practice with a group playing that same night for the “Wild Game Feed”. The group took me in and we became known as “Cabin Fever”. My main influences are Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and of course the people who influenced them, BB King, Albert King and the mojo man himself John Lee Hooker.

Steve Reiter