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Get ready for Creole great Buckwheat Zydeco
His two-steppin’ rhythms
will knock your socks off
The Athens Folk Music and
Dance Society presents Buckwheat
Zydeco at the Georgia Theatre to
night at 10 p.m. Tickets are $6 for
AFMDS members, $7 for non-mem
bers. Advance tickets are on sale at
Wuxtry and Downtown Records.
By JENNIFER WILKIN
Staff Writer
If you missed Mardi Gras, you’re
in luck. Something just as good,
just as exciting, just as down-and-
dirty, is on the way.
From southwest Louisiana
comes Buckwheat Zydeco, the
Creole foot-stompin’ band led by
Clifton Chenier protege Stanley
“Buckwheat” Dural. Dural, a self-
appointed missionary bringing his
people’s music out of the bayous,
grew up in Lafayette, La. sur
rounded by the Creoles’ language
and culture.
Zydeco, with R&B, soul and tra
ditional Creole roots, is frequently
confused with Cajun music, its
white cousin. Louisiana’s black cul
ture —Creole culture — is often in
correctly grouped under the Cajun
banner with the white descendants
of the original French settlers of
Louisiana.
Stanley ‘Buckwheat’ Dural: Don’t underestimate the
power of an accordion — this Creole giant can cook up
more than just jambalaya and crayfish etouffee
A zydeco band usually consists
of a drummer, a bassist, someone
who plays a corrugated metal vest
called a rub board and an accordio
nist in the lead. The term “zydeco”
comes from a slang version of the
French words for snap bean — les
haricots.
Dural began playing piano at the
age of nine, but his father, an ac
complished zydeco accordionist,
was a miyor influence on him.
When Dural had finished his ap
prenticeship under Chenier, he
struck out on his own, formed the
I Is Sont Partis Band, and began
playing the accordion.
And play he does.
People Magazine reported that
in a concert planned for Island Re
cords’ 25th anniversary, Dural was
onstage with Eric Clapton, Ringo
Starr and Andy Summers. As the
jam session got hotter and hotter,
Buckwheat started a musical
banter with Clapton, and the
trade-offs became increasingly fast
and furious.
Finally, Clapton could stand it
no longer. He leaned over, stuck
out his hand and shouted, “I’m Eric
Clapton. Who are you?”
Buckwheat Zydeco’s music wails
like New Orleans/Dixieland R&B,
and dares you to stop moving when
a session is in progress. Chances
are you won’t.
As Dural himself exclaims at the
end of a particularly sweaty hoe-
down (on nis album), “Whew! You
don’t have to be French to under
stand that."
And The New York Times
ranked his major-label debut, "On
a Night Like This,” as one of the 10
best recordings of 1987. You don’t
have to be French to understand
that, either.
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CURTIS
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She said her early films were
good experiences at the time, and
she needed the experience. She
said she didn’t think she was
formed as an actress, and she
thanked horror films.
“I wouldn’t have a career if it
weren’t for horror films," she
said.
“I didn’t get paid hardly any
thing for "Halloween" or the “The
Fog,"she said.
She said John Carpenter gave
her “The Fog” as a gift for her to
work with her mother, Janet
Leigh.
in 1988, “A Fish Called
Wanda” was released, in which
Curtis starred with John Cleese,
Kevin Kline and Michael Palin.
Curtis said she didn’t know
Cleese personally, but she knew
he wrote it with her in mind.
She said these people are se
rious, but they have the amazing
ability to be wacky. She men
tioned talk of getting the four of
them back together in a new
movie with them playing in dif
ferent roles.
Although this isn’t the first fe
male cop film, Curtis feels she is
what separates her film from the
rest.
Curtis said Katherine Bigelow,
director and co-writer of the film,
inverted the genre by putting a
woman in the lead role.
“I’m happy with my perfor
mance in this movie. I thought it
was a good role for me," she said
confidently.
To prepare for this film, Curtis
did target practice in Los An
geles, but worked with actual
New York cops. Bigelow wouldn’t
allow her to train with Los An
geles police, because they are
very different from New York
cops.
Curtis said of all the types of
films she has done, she prefers
her TV show, “Anything But
Love,” over everything else.
“I enjoy doing my show. If I
had to make a choice, I would
choose my show. It lets me be
loose. I love the freedom I’m al
lowed,” she said.
Curtis expressed dismay with
TV, because there are too many
people giving orders.
Bigelow was asked if she expe
rienced any discrimination or re
sistance from Btudios in funding
her film, because she was a
woman.
“If there’s any resistance, I
choose to ignore it. I diffuse it as
an issue,” she said.
Bigelow said Oliver Stone
(“Bom on the Fourth of July,”
Platoon”) had a big hand in get
ting “Blue Steel” made. Stone
supported the script and gave it
to a producer who found the
funds for it.
“It was really his support that
made it a reality,” she said.
MUSICAL BENEFIT
The Athens Area Homeless Shelter Is presenting a benefit con
cert on March 17 at College Place Apartments. The show will In
clude at least eight bands and will begin at 2 p.m. Tickets are $3
at the gate; all proceeds go to the AAHS. Also bring old clothes.
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