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6 • The Red and Black • Fnday. January 12, 1990
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■ SOUNDTRACK
For those who enjoy and have missed the sounds of Tears for
Fears, they will be performing at the Fox Theater on Feb. 2.
Tickets are $21 and available at Seats locations. The show
starts at 8 p.m.
Hired Hands playing tonight;
lots of good pickin’, fiddlin’
September Faces plays Saturday;
sure to heat up Athens in January
The Hired Hands will perform at
the Unitarian Church Friday at 8
p.m.. Tickets are $5 for members of
Folk Society, $6 for non members.
By SHANNON BLAND
Contributing Writer
Put on your flannel shirt and
overalls and come see country leg
ends Snuffy Jenkins, Pappy Sher
rill and The Hired Hands perform
at the Unitarian Church tonight.
The performance, sponsored by
the Athens Folk Music and Dance
Society, will include fiddling, banjo
picking, and a musical combination
of vaudeville, bluegrass and old-
time string band music of the
1930s.
Both Jenkins and Sherrill en
tered the folk scene at an early age
and have been playing together
since 1939 when Jenkins’ group,
the WIS Hillbillies, hired Sherill as
fiddle player.
Jenkins made his first appear
ance on stage when he was five
years old. Although he plays bar\jo
in the band, his first instrument
was the fiddle. A self-taught musi
cian, Jenkins plays by ear and
cannot read a note of music. He is
famous for developing the three-
finger bar\jo style popularized by
Earl Scruggs. Scruggs considers
Jenkins one of his greatest influ
ences, according to the Folk Society
newsletter.
Sherrill first became interested
in music when, at age seven, he
was given a $1.98 tin fiddle from
Sears and Roebuck. Like Jenkins,
Sherrill is self-taught and plays by
ear, but can read music.
FVom 1937-1947, the men trav
eled over 250,000 miles to enter
tain more than 600,000 people.
During their travels, the band fre
quently appeared on NBC’s “Sat
urday Showcase."
They later changed their name
to the Hired Hands and in 1949
they beat out 70 other Southern
bands for a recording contract with
Columbia records. As winners,
they accompanied Tex Ritter on
one of his albums.
Throughout their years of per
forming, the Hired Hands have en
joyed an exciting and rewarding
musical career. At the Country
Music Jamboree in 1966, Jenkins
and Sherrill were presented an
honorary lifetime membership to
the Country Music Association of
South Carolina. In 1976, Sherill
was picked as the country’s most
unique, old-time fiddle player at
the National Fiadler’s
Championship.
Arthur Rosenbaum, a musician
and University art professor, has
played with Jenkins and Sherrill
and said they are both very tal
ented musicians.
“1 don’t think Jenkins has ever
been surpassed as a three-finger
banjo player, and Sherrill is one of
the best fiddlers in the South,”
Rosenbaum said.
Ned Bridges, concert coordinator
of the Athens Folk Society, said the
Hired Hands don’t play very often,
and everyone should take advan
tage of the opportunity to see these
talented musicians.
“We would really like to see
some of the students get involved
in the Folk Society," he said.
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September Faces will perform at
the 40 Watt Club Saturday The
show starts at 10:30 p.m.. Cover
will be $3.
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
Four guys playing high
voltage rock ’n’ roll — that’s
September Faces, and they’ll be
bringing their brand of en
ergetic, upbeat music to the 40
Watt Club Saturday night.
September Faces is a new
local band consisting of Spencer
Cobb, Todd Gleaton, Jim Nalty
and Tony Salva. Both Salva and
Nalty hail from New York while
Cobb and Gleaton are from
Monroe, Ga. The band’s man
ager, Chri9 Erwin, said the
band is not an everyday mix of
musicians.
“I think it’s an interesting
combination. We’ve got two
guys raised in the South, not
really Southern rock influenced
but still exposed to a lot of
music; and two from New York,
where you’re exposed to a dif
ferent type of music every day.
It’s not often North meets South
musically in this town,” Erwin
said.
Any member of a band will
tell you that the hardest thing
to do in an interview is describe
their music’s sound. It’s a credit
to this band’s courage that two
of the guys decided to attempt to
■ INTERVIEW
meet the challenge.
Bass player and backing vo
calist, Tony Salva said, “We con
sider ourselves a basic rock-and-
roll band but without the blues
influence."
‘To us the combined sound of
the music is more important
than trying to individually show
off how well we can play," he
said.
Erwin said, “The band’s
sound is really individualistic
and unique because of the va
riety of different styles of music
that they touch on.
The band is a few months old
and Salva said the members are
still learning about songwriting
and performing, but he thinks
their best music is still ahead of
them.
Lead vocalist Spencer Cobb
said, “I think that 1 learn some
thing every time we play."
Considering the relative
youth of the band, Erwin said
September Faces has a surpris
ingly large following. He said he
feels this is due in part to the
band’s ability to appeal to a
wide range of listening audi
ences.
“All of the songs vary in
tempo and sound and I think
that this makes September
Faces accessible to many dif
ferent types of people," Erwin
said.
September Faces opened for
Fetchin’ Bones in front of a
packed crowd at the Georgia
Theatre Wednesday. That, in it
self, was a great feat for such a
new band.
Erwin said, “Opening for a
band like Fetchin’ Bones was
really a thrill. It was a chance to
continue our expansion and
hopefully tap into audiences
who hadn’t seen us as yet."
The live show September
Faces puts on is heavier and
more straightforward than any
music they would do in the
studio, Salva said.
Certain qualities of the
Athens music scene have bene
fited the band in many ways,
Erwin said. Folks in Athens are
unusually receptive to unknown
bands and local musicians. The
Chickasaw Mud Puppies have
helped out tremendously by
giving the band lots of advice.
With it’s combination of up
beat music, local support and a
truly powerful live snow, the fu
ture looks bright for September
Faces.
Erwin said, “This band has so
much going for it. Beside the
fact that these guys give 110
percent to everything they do,
the excitement they all share for
the future is infectious. There’s
a let of fire in this band— a lot of
fire.”
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