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The Red and Black • Monday, April 20, 1902 • 4
Noel Murray and the Jody Grind:
Both ready to break out of here
By NOEL MURRAY
Staff Writer
Jeez, it’* enough to make you
feel like an old man.
You come down to Athena from
Nashville to go to school in the fall
of 1988. You hang around, you hit
the clubs, you see some bands. You
hear about a pretty good band from
Atlanta called An Evening With the
Garbageman that has been playing
for a couple of months, off and on,
at the Downstairs Cafe.
You start checking them out
whenever they play, first at the
Downstairs and then eventually at
the 40 Watt and the Uptown
Lounge, where they usually open
for The Labrea S tom per s (another
one of your favorite local bands).
When you first jumped on the
bandwagon, it was hardly a wagon
at all, but by the end of your fresh
man year the ten or so regulars at
Garbageman shows has turned into
twenty or thirty. There’s almost no
room to do the little dance you and
your friends invented for their cov
er version of the folk classic
"Malaguena."
But that’s all right, because
they’ve stopped doing that tune so
often anyway. They’ve been slowly
replacing their repertoire of coun
try, blues, and jazz covers with
bracing originals that mix these
genres ana set them spinning
around the catchy chord changes of
guitarist Bill "Mr. Vegas" Tart and
the heavenly voice of Kelly Hogan.
You go away for the summer and
when you come back the band has
changed their name to The Jody
Grind.
There are other changes as well.
More originals, more gigs both here
and abroad. Kelly gets married,
and you offer her a coloring book
drawing of Bert, your favorite
Muppet, which she later tells you is
on her refrigerator at home. In the
spring of 1990, they release their
first album, "One Man’s Trash Is
Another Man’s Treasure," on dB
Records and you run all over
Atlanta looking for it because you
heard a rumor that it was supposed
to be out. When you finally hear it,
MUSIC, LIFE 101
you have a mixed reaction becauee
the record ie eo heavy with cover
vereione that don’t really repreeent
what the band ie doing anymore.
Ihe eonge are fine (eepecially
the originate), but you’re uneure
about the production and the ee-
quencing, and you write a review
for the campue newepaper that ex
plains your love for the band but
your strange caution at lietening to
The Jody Grind merely ape etyles
that others have done better. It ie
your first published article in that
paper, and it begins an association
that will last for the next two years.
Your stormy Junior year arrives
and you stop seeing The Jody Grin<L
as often, to avoid bum "out. The
band begins touring the country
with Robyn Hitchcock and Poi Dog
Pondering, and they add a bassist
who rounds out their sound. A few
articles about them begin to appear
in national periodicals.
Meanwhile, you buy your first
John Coltrane, Duke Ellington and
Ornette Coleman CDs because of
your exposure to them vis The Jody
Grind. The 40 Watt has moved, the
Uptown Lounge has long since been
shifted to the Georgia Theater, and
The Rockfish (whose outdoor venue
was always The Jody Grind’s best
showplace) has closed its doors.
Senior year rips by too quickly,
almost without notice, and as The
Jody Grind prepares for the release
of their second album, you catch a
little heat for a record review where
you compare Col. Bruce Hampton’s
live album unfavorably to The Jody
Grind.
You claim that Hampton’s
record consists merely of borrowed
musical styles, with no effort to
reinvent the genres (as opposed to
The Jody Grind’s compelling genre
bending). A letter comes in that
says that Hampton is playing jazz,
and if you think he’s boring than
you think all jazz is boring. You feel
like slapping the letter writer, or at
least making fun of him in print,
but you don’t have the energy any
more.
Besides, it’s time for “Lefty’s
Deceiver,” the new Jody Grind al
bum, to finally hit the racks, and
for days before it does you have a
sense of deja vu as you hop in and
out Big Shot Records (which has
been Ruthless Records and
Downtown Records since your asso
ciation with An Evening With the
Garbageman began) to see if it’s out
yet. Finally, you buy it and bring it
home (after a long shift at work
where you're forced to stare at the
CD cover without being able to hear
it) and dissolve into bliss.
They’ve finally done it They’ve
finally captured their sound.
Only two cover songs on the en
tire album and they’re both ob
scure. The rest are originals that
blend sweet pop melody with rock-
jazz-country-Dlues excursions.
Kelly's voice has never sounded
better. The production ie delightful
ly crisp. There’s even a guest vocal
from Mike Mantione, the lead
singer of your absolute favorite
Athens band, Five-Eight. A few
weeks earlier, you had coined the
phrase American Music to describe
roots-rock with an edge. “Lefty’s
•Deceiver” practically defines the
term.
The band is ready to break out,
and so are you. With graduation ap
proaching in less than two months,
you find yourself listening to songs
like “Rickie” and “3rd of July,”
songs that have been in The Jody
Grind’s set for years, and thinking
back on what you’ve accomplished
over the last four years.
Not nearly as much as they
have, but you’ve done okay. At the
very least, you’ve been given the
opportunity to write such a long,
rambling piece as the one you’ve
just written (for better or worse).
You don’t have a job, but you have
memories, and you have the in
spired example of a band that you
first saw as a three-piece in a room
with only about fifteen other peo
ple.
So much has changed, and so
much has improved, and still it
boils down to you with a smile on
your face, listening to the voice of
an angel .
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an extra helping.
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