By Bob Buckingham
Welcome to Virginia The
Bluegrass Cardinals, Rounder
0097
Here it is at last, the
Cardinal's second Ip. This is
their first since relocating to
the east and changes are
apparent.
There is a cohesiveness to
this 1p which exceeds their first
and this could be due to a better
quality recording and two new
members; John Davis, bass
and Warren Blair, fiddle.
The picking and singing is
consistently high in quality.
Dave's high tenor shines on the
gospel quartets. Blair's fiddling
though more than adequate is
sometimes too busy. The best
cut is a fine rendition of The
Blue-Eyed Beaten Boy, a low
key anti-war song from the War
Between the States.
This young group utilizes
progressive harmonies and
traditional instrumentation to
deliver a balanced program of
CULTURAL EVENTS
April 14-15 Boys of The lough in concert - Main Point,
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 8 & 10 p.m.
April 11-12 Renaissance in concert,
Theatre, Phila., Pa
April 6-9 Rufus/Heatwave in concert. Valley Forge Music
Fair, Devon, Pa.
April 28 David Bromberg/Maria Muldair in concert -
Hershey Community Theatre, 7 & 10 p.m.
April 19 Film "Emmanuelle" - Capitol Campus, 2 p.m.
Student Center, 7 p.m. - Auditorium FREE
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old and new material. There
are no instrumentals so the
One of the greats in
bluegrass will play the Radio
Club's keggar this Friday. Don
Stover, singer and banjo picker
extrodinaire, along with the
White Oak Mountain Boys will
have the student center
jumping to the sounds of
driving banjo and fiddle.
Stover has recorded with Bill
Monroe, the Lily Brothers and
Doc Watson. Anyone who has
caught one of their local
picking never gets the show-
case it deserves. As a result
there is an understated power
creating a controlled tension
between vocals and instru
ments. The instruments do
have their moments as a close
listening will yield. David
Parmley does an outstanding
job on guitar, not only on solos,
but in support of the others he
propels them along on a smooth
rythmic line. This is a good
second effort by a promising
young band.
"Spiritwood" To Perform
Middletown—Lee and Larry
Lawson, better known as
"Spiritwood," will perform in
Vendorville at Penn State-
Capitol Campus on Thursday,
April 6 from noon until 2:00
.p.m.
A performance by
"Spiritwood" includes strong
original material, as Well as
traditional and contemporary
folk songs, a bit of country, and
appearances will know what is
in store.
Stover is probably a
spiritual decendant of Uncle
Dave Macon. His mixture of
humor and his command of
diverse banjo styles is as down
home as it is spellbinding. It is
not only his verbal quips but his
musical sense of humor that
sets him apart from his
contemporaries. There is a
story about Stover when he
was appearing with the Lily
Brothers at the Hillbilly Ranch
in Boston. Apparently they hit
an exceptionally maudlin tone
with the old ballad Barbara
Allen when Stover played a bit
of Chuck Berr's Memphis
Tennessee as his banjo break.
Friday night should prove
to be a similar experience as
Stover has been known to
excite even the most catatonic
of crowds under the most
dismal conditions.
For more on Don Stover
see CCR vol. 7 ns, Feb. 16, 78
Grass News
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an occasional parody of the
blues or rock and roll. Lee and
Larry accompany themselves
with acoustic guitars, piano,
harmonica and banjo.
The couple is. from
Lewisburg, and
,kw performed
in Peimsylvania,,, New York,
Maryland, Virginia and West
Virginia.
The performance is free and
the public is cordially invited.
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Nigh Anxiety
By Bill Roseberry
A film about a psycholo
gist's attempt to discover the
dark and terrible secret of the
Psycho-Analytic Institute for
the Very, Very Nervous. I for
one am still not sure about what
that secret is. Nevertheless Mel
Brooks has come out with a new
and (unjustifiably) anxiously
awaited release. Incidently, it is
a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock,
the king of the suspense film.
Despite several humorous
scenes the movie doesn't have
the overwhelming humor of
previous triumphs, like Blazing
Saddles, Young Frankenstein
and Silent Movie. Perhaps this
is a result of the material
limitations one has when
choosing to spoof a single
artist, no matter who, instead
of an entire film genre. This
sounds bad but really the film
isn't that bad. Such vintage
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Hitchcock devices and scenes as
the shower sequence from
Psycho, the bird attacks from
The Birds, the camera tech
niques used in both these and
other films and the use of music
for dramatic effect are used to
good effect. For the most part,
however, Brooks is on his own
and just can't seem to find
enough really funny material to
relieve the "suspenseful atmo
sphere" the film takes on.
In Blazing Saddles one
never lost sight of the gags and
visual puns no matter how
serious the scene became. Even
though an effort seems to have
been made this can't be said of
High Anxiety.
In the end the film is only
entertaining, lacking the vitali
ty of earlier efforts and seems
to incorporate Hitchcock's
techniques more than spoof
them. A good film for $1 but
save your $3.50.
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