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The Red and Mark. Tuesday, February 21. 197H
‘Old-fashioned’ music visits campus
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‘The sound of the hills
and the ‘porch swings’
of the South’
Photo by WINGATE DOWNS
H\ ROY LYNCH
The sound of the hills of
Virginia and the "porch
swings" of the South visited
Memorial Thursday night. For
those in the audience who
came to hear good old-fashion
ed folk music. Art Rosenbaum
Concert
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gave them what they came for
Rosenbaum was introduced
as "the man not looking like a
folk singer." He sat down
among the array of micro
phones and plucked out a banjo
solo consisting of two songs:
"Mississippi Sawyer” and "01'
Chestnut Sawyer.”
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appeared nervous until he
became more familiar with the
audience. The gentleman play
ed a fast banjo on songs like
"One-eyed Sam" and "Charm
ing Betsie" (the latter song
also included some mouth how
playing by Rosenbaum). He
also included a fine guitar
blues ballad. "Ballad of Casey
Jones."
Rosenbaum's powerful fiddle
instrumentals such as "Dubu
que.” “Jaybird” and "Fine
Times at Our House" were
quite pleasant. The gentle
man’s banjo prowess encom
passed grand recitations of
Georgia Blues" and "Angel
Baker.”
Talking to Rosenbaum, I
found out that his music is.
naturally, very personal to
him He mentioned that when
he was in a town where old
folk singers live, he would
usually call them and try to
pick up some of their "porch
music" licks.
Rosenbaum even stirred up a
bit of foot-tapping in the
three-quarters full hall on
Thursday.
The guitarist was satisfied
that his music was appreciated
when he came back for an
encore of the catchy banjo
instrumental. "Good-bye 01'
Booze."
The gentleman also likes to
tell jokes about graverobbers
and old folk taboos Rosen
baum said that when he was in
France, during the taping of
his live album which should be
released in the spring, he had
to tell all of his jokes in
French, but he still got some
laughs from natives not
familiar with the "country
scene."
Rosenbaum also has a studio
album due out in the spring on
Kicking Mule Records; it
contains some more of his
ever-growing collection of old
folk ballads and blues songs.
Since Rosenbaum is the
current president of the
Georgia Folklore Society, what
could be more natural than the
Friends of Folk Music bringing
to the University a man with
true love and knowledge of the
folk music genre.
Evoking vaudeville era
By WILLIAM H UNKS
Entertainment editor
The poster carries a
simple, short quote of
endorsement. "Has more
talent on the stage than the
law should allow "—Edwin
Newman. NBC-TV.
It sounds like an out
rageous statement, doesn’t
it? Well, Newman just
might have been dead on
target in his description of
the New York-based black
musical theater group.
"Voices" Inc.
“Voices” performed
"Harlem Heyday," a musi
cal play within a play, for a
moderately sized crowd
Friday evening at Fine
Arts, the six person troupe,
as well as pe r cussionisl
Willie Terrell and pianist
Lila Futernick. were
charming and studiously
professional. And there was
more than one instance of
spine-tingling excitement
during the show .
"Harlem Heyday” con
cerns a contemporary musi
cal theater group that
attempts to evoke the
passion of the vaudevillian
era in song, dance and
comedy as they work
toward opening night Rufus
GoNightly. played excel
lently by 26-year-old Tim
Strong, overhears the play
ers while he is sweeping out
the theater. GoNightly is a
fictional character who
claims he once sang and
danced in front of thousands
in the 1920s and 30s
GoNightly wants to per
form with the "kids." After
some debate and a lot of
protest from Shelia Davis,
the "kids" agree
GoNightly huffs and puffs
to keep up with the young
singers and dancers and
collapses in a heap onstage
only to dust off his pants for
another go-round of Fats
Waller and Creamer and
Layton. GoNightly’s father
ly instruction of the how to’s
of "Struttin”’ brought
shrieks of delight from the
audience and provided a
tidy transition into Shelton
Brooks' upbeat number.
"Darktown Strutters Ball
Shelia Davis and Wendell
Morrison had the crowd
tittering at jokes that were
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‘Voices” Inc. shine at Fine Arts
almost a half century old in
their Buttorboans and Suzie
sketch. Morrison (Butter-
beans) has just come back
from another job hunt-a
search that has been going
on for 15 years and explains
to Suzie that he can get a
job at the Inside Out
Mattress Company, hut the
working conditions there
"could kill me.” Suzie falls
for Butterheans' foolery and
then realizes she’s lieen had
and leaves her husband.
Butterheans mugging and
camping behind Suzie's
back verged on the hysteri
cal.
Davis' portrayal of blues
songstress Bessie Smith in
the second act was the
show-stopiHT. however. Da
vis. dressed in a clinging
beige gown and glitter cap.
belted out "Backwater
Blues” with brilliant bro
ken-hearted falsetto leaps
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that had the crowd applaud
spontaneously four times.
Throughout the first act of
"Harlem Heyday.” Davis
hung in the background,
letting Marion Rolle grab
some of the spot light. Davis
sounded almost non-existent
on several numbers. So. her
possum-playing which led
up to the Smith song was
convincing enough to as
tound the audience when
she needed to. Davis’
singing was sensational, hut
her strategy was cleverly
thought out. too
Jerry Shelton (Eddy)
pantomimed the action of a
barber so accurately that I
actually expected to see a
clean-shaven Wendell Mor
rison (Georgei when lie was
finished. Morrison's bass
treatment of "Sweet Geor
gia," done after his shave of
course, further pleased the
audience
IlUill -.JO.ilU. L.i,
"Harlem Heyday” is an
educational ar.d entertain
ing trip down memory lane.
The six singers and dancers
that capture the spirit and
flavor ot the 20’s and 30’s
expertly complement one
another. Though our early
1970s infatuation with that
period »Robert Redford and
Paul Newman s The sting
and Marvin Hamlisch's
brief stint in Scott Joplin’s
limelight > has waned, it is
satisfying to know that
"Voices" Inc. still remem
bers.
"Voices” Inc. is sched
uled to visit New Kngland
after they finish their
southeastern tour It the
group continues the high
level of consistency their
performance showed in
Athens. Boston just might
ban them if they see that
Kdwin Newman quote.
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Sweet portrays pop idea
By TONY LANHAM
Sweet first surfaced in
America with the bubblegum
rocker. “Little Willy.” The
group then disappeared until
their album Desolation Boule
vard was released in the
summer of 1975.
Meanwhile, Sweet was rack
ing up a string of top 10 hits in
Kngland, with the help of the
prolific Chinn and Chapman
songwriting team. Chinn and
Chapman had also boosted Suzi
Quatro to the top of Britain’s
charts. But Sweet did not
re-surface in America until the
frantic “Ballroom Blitz” ap
peared on the airwaves.
Two more singles followed
"Blitz” ("Fox on the Run” and
"Action ”) before the band’s
Give Us A Wink stiffed.
Off the Record had the group
reorganizing and straying a bit
from their top 10 ravers. Sweet
Celebrating its
10th Anniversary
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was making albums again.
Lev.I Headed. Sweet's new
est contribution, continues in
Record's attempt to produce
an entire album that is
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listenable, instead of a few hit
singles and a lot of filler.
Sweet has matured from the
heavy metal rock with macho
styled lyrics of songs like
“Sweet FA.” and "A.C.DC."
to the smooth love lyrics of
songs like “Anthem No. 1
(Lady of the Lake)" and
“Letters D’Amour."
Loud ear-bursting vocals of
Brian Connally and Andy Scott
and the gut-wrenching guitar
licks of Scott and Steve Priest
have metamorphosed into soft
vocals and soil guitar solos.
Sweet has gone from I^ed
Zeppelin and Triumverate
styled rockers to early Beatles
and Kinks music. In fact, the
first track on Level Headed.
"California Nights,” sounds
very much like a Ray Davies
nugget
Sweet also re-issues dribs
and drabs of contemporary
artists. “Dream On" sounds
like something Freddie Mer
cury or Rod Stewart could
have recorded while "Foun
tain" moves into the Beatles'
realm. Priest’s guitar runs are
very similar in nature to
George Harrison’s White Al
bum material.
Sweet’s Level Headed is,
without a doubt, the best
album of the young year, and
will probably crop up in the top
20 lists ol 1978 Just listen to
"Love is Like Oxygen” to get
an idea of what pop music is
all about.
Morris photo exhibit
debuts at Ga. Museum
B> ANN McNKLLIS
Staff writer
You can just smell the
mildew, one woman exclaim
ed. She was reacting to a
photograph of an interior of an
old house not to the pristine
halls of the Georgia Museum
Most of the 93 photographs
constituting Wright Morris’
"Structures and Artifacts 1933-
1954” photo exhibition elicit
such a definite response
Certain subjects, such as
house interiors, churches, and
landscapes, appear many
times; their treatment and
locations, however, vary tre
mendously.
One photo taken in Virginia
City. New, and titled "Two
Churches, lf4t" contrasts a
large, new, many-spired brick
and stucco church with the
dwarfed wood plank house of
worship adjacent to it.
Morris employs irony in
another Virginia City photo.
“House on Incline, 1941.” The
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attached weathered wood
plunk houses constructed on an
incline appear to Ik* on the
decline.
In "Ruined Store Fronts."
taken in Tombstone, Ariz..
Morris achieves a strikingly
surrealistic effect
Another photo taken near
Oxford, Miss., is painfully
realistic "Eroded Soil” pic
tures a lone house perched
atop the skeleton of a hillside
Individually, the photographs
are a remarkable statement of
Morris' ability to capture the
something special in every
subject.
Taken as a whole, the
display is just as impressive,
cxpccially in the contrasts it
reveals The severe, outstand
ing churches of (he East coast
differ markedly from the
plainer structures of the
Mideast and the earthy build
ings ol the Southwest; for
example.
The show is Morris’ first
museum exhibition Pre
viously, Morris displayed his
photos in hooks, such as The
Inhabitants. 1941 and The
lloineplace. 1948
The Georgia Museum will
host the Wright Morris exhibi
tion through March 5.