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Contrary to popular belief, there are tickets left for the Bob Dylan
concert Sunday night at the Coliseum. Get them at the Tate Stu
dent Center cashier window for $12 with a student ID. Non-stu-
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The Red end Black • Thursday, October 25, 1990 • 5
Randy Travis croons with ‘heroes and friends’
By JEFF RUTHERFORD
and ELIZABETH QRADDY
Entertainment Writers
“Heroes and Friends" Randy
Travla (Warner Bros.)
JEFF: Have you heard that
new Randy Travis album called
‘Heroes & Friends?"
BETH: I got the feeling Travis
did the album more for himself
than for anyone else. It’s really
about his heroes — country music
heroes, that is — and his
friendships. He does duets with
the greats: George Jones, Tammy
Wynette, Merle Haggard,
Conway Twitty....
JEFF: Yeah, plus he even
sings with B.B. King, Clint
Eastwood, Kris KristofTerson and
Roy Rogers. After four, full-
length solo albums, he’s recorded
this obligatory album of duets —a
frequent phenomena for country
music performera. While most
are cheesy and ridiculous, Travis
succeeds with a minimum of
cheesiness.
BETH: That song, “A Few Ole
Country Boys,” pretty much
sums up what TYavis is trying to
do.
JEFF: It’s a duet with George
Jones and I’m not surprised that
it is the first single off of the
album. Their voices are the per
fect hard country kind — the type
that makes you think of smokey
honkytonks and broken hearts.
BETH: You’re right. That
feeling comes across in their
singing. But what I like about it
is the fact that it’s really about
something else. It’s about how
they both feel about their craft
and what they think of each
other. On this album, Travis
takes the chance to comment on
other beliefs, too — like in “The
Human Race,” his duet with Vem
Gosdin.
JEFF: Vern Gosdin, God, the
“Voice.” What else can you say?
Excluding Travis, Jones and
Twitty, Gosdin is THE voice of
country music and this duet is
powerful. Plus, like you said, the
lyrics are a heartfelt lament
about the state of world affairs.
They sing about the advanced
state of today’s technology and
the basic lack of communication
between people that yet remains.
BETH: My second favorite
song is “Birth of the Blues,” with
Willie Nelson. It’s got the blues
sound and it gives a little history
of how the Southland viewed the
beginning of that genre.
BETH: Don’t forget Merle
Haggard...What do you think?
JEFF: You can’t forget “All
Night Long,” the sleeper hit of
the album, an upbeat, Bob Wills
tune that you can swing to all
night long. Ha, ha, ha.
BETH: I found the choice of
material for the duets with
women (Loretta Lynn, Dolly
Parton and Tammy Wynette) fol
lowed a typical country music
trend that I don’t like. With men
he sings about issues and beliefs,
like countiy music or the envi
ronment. With women he sings
about love. To me, that’s just how
a lot of men are — they talk to
each other about real things and
women are just for romance.
JEFF: I don’t know. I don’t
really want to talk about that
issue with you.
SOUND
Professor plays double
bass in recital tonight
Professor Milton Masciadri will
perform a double bass recital in the
University Chapel on North
Campus tonight at 8 p.m. as part of
the School of Music’s faculty con
cert series.
Pianist Edward Eikner, the
other half of the Eikner-Masciadri
touring duo, and David Randolph
on tuba will accompany Masciaari
at the recital.
Masciadri said this concert is
unique because "it features a 300
year old double bass, one of the few
existing crafted by Testore.”
Masciadri said his earliest
studies were with his father. At 17,
he was co-principal bassist with
the Porto Alegre Symphony and at
the age of 19 he was asked to join
the faculty of the Federal Univer
sity of Rio Grandes.
In 1982, Masciadri moved to the
U.S. to study with Gary Karr, a
man he said he considers one of the
world’s greatest double bassists.
Masciadri has played for audiences
on three continents.
During the summer, Masciadri
tenches at the International Music
Festival of Santa Maria and con
ducts workshops for double bas
sists in South America and the
United States.
Besides keeping a busy schedule
with classes and concerts, Mas
ciadri is director of the bass en
semble at the University, principal
double bassist with the Charleston
Symphony and a guest artist with
the Atlanta Virtuosi.
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