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Kate Millet's film, Three Lives, will be shown Wednesday at
Sheldon. It will play at 3, 7 and 9 p.m. Admission is $1.
Three Lives is not about Women's Liberation. Rather it is
about three different women.
The film comprises three sections, each containing edited
footage of a woman in medium shot or close-up, talking about
herself to the camera and sometimes to the crew behind it.
It is a special kind of open-ended, nondidactic
documentary, a political statement in so far as it is a film
about women made by women. Basically, the film offers
women talking about themselves, which is a start.
Poet Mona Van Duyn will present a poetry reading
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the English Department library,
227 Andrews Hall.
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Van Ouyn won the 1971 National Book Award for poetry
with her volume To See, To Take. She also has published two
additional collections of poetry and is a co-editor of
Perspective, a literary quarterly.
'The session is open to the public -without charge. - -
Now on sale in the English Department office, at Sheldon
Gallery and in local bookstores is an October release of the
Three Sheets chapbook series. It's twelve poems by John
Knoepfle, collected under the title, Deep Winter Poems.
The Deep Winter Poems are set in St. Louis where Knoepfle
previously directed the writing program at St. Louis
University.
They have some delightfully slick word working.
The Union Weekend Film folks are offering a midweek
special to scare your pants off. Halloween night they're
presenting a quadruple scare.
"Houw of Wax," "House of Usher," "The Blob" and
"Rosemary's Baby" all will chill your heart, I'm sure.
T.V. Guide: Monday, 9 p.m., Channel 12. The General with
Buster Keaton.
Tuesday, 10:30 on Channels 6 and 10. The Mummy with
Peter Cushing. A 4,000 year-old embalmed giant roams the
earth for 105 minutes.
Atlantic blues
anthologies
lend yer ears
Review by Bart Becker
Atlantic recently released a six-volume
blues series that deserves having ears lent to
it. It's called the Blues Originals series and is
divided stylistically into volumes.
Volume 1 is Atlanta 12-String featuring
Blind Willie McTell. McTell is an
extraordinary guitarist, folksinger and blues
singer and the album proves it.
The album includes "Kill it Kid" and
"Broke Down Engine Blues," originally
issued as Barrelhouse Sammy, one of
McTell '$ many pseudonyms. The other 13
cuts on the album were previously unissued.
Included are versions of "Dying
Crapshooter's Blues," an arrangement of
"Pinctop's Boogie Woogie" and a cover of
Lemon Jefferson's "One Dime Blues" (Here
called "Last Dime Blues").
On side two McTell seems to get the
religion. The side includes "I Got to Cross
the River Jordan," "Ain't it Grand to Live a
Christian," and "Pearly Gates."
Volume 2 is Professor Longhair, the New
Orleans pianist. Unfortunately I didn't get it,
but Rolling Stone ran a review on it a couple
issues ago.
Texas Guitar from Dallas to L.A. is the
third volume. The more advanced Texas
guitar styles set the tone for the bulk of
popular blues in the 40s, 50s and early 60s
as well as fathering much of rock guitaring
today.
Al King's "Reconsider Baby" is a good
version of Lowell Fulson's song. King uses
something similar to a wah-wah pedal to
achieve a fairly distinct sound.
T-Bone Walker has two previously
unissued cuts here: "T-Bone Blues Special"
and "How Long Blues." And the album
presents a previously unissued "Along About
Midnight" from Guitar Slim.
Eight cuts on the album are more
countryish-all of them by Lawyer Houston.
The more outstanding of them are "Dallas
Bebop Blues" and "Hug Me Baby."
Volume 4 is Blues Piano, Chicago plus. It
. includes one or more cuts by Little Johnny
Jones, ? Hoyd Dixon,-Little Brother
Montgomery, Frank "Sweet" Williams and
Meade Lux Lewis.
A previously unissued take of "Hoy Hoy"
by little Johnny Jones and Floyd Dixon's
"When I Get Lucky" and 'Two Piano
Blues" are real ear-catchers.
The fifth volume is John Lee Hooker,
Detroit Special. It includes one previously
unissued cut, "My Baby Put Me Down," plus
some songs released originally under the
name John Lee Booker.
Included are "Pouring Down Rain,"
"Drifting Blues," "Don't Turn Me Away
From Your Door," and "Guitar Lovin'
Man."
Volume 6 is Chicago Piano, Vol, 1 with
Jimmy and Mama Yancey. The piano is
really nice and the tunes, all previously
issued, are representative.
"Salute to Pinetop," "How Long Blues,"
and "Monkey Woman Blues" are among the
songs included.
The Blues Originals series is a pretty good
one. It provides a look at a variety of blues
styles and artists. Additionally, it's packaged
nicely and the liner notes, by people from
Blues Unlimited, are informative.
Everybody's making country albums
these days and, naturally, they range from
good to ho-hum to bad. That wide spectrum
is available in three recently released albums.
We'lf take the best first so you can stop
reading when you want to and not miss
much.
John Hartford's Morning Bugle is a good
one. Hartford, who recorded several albums
for RCA, has turned out a lot of good tunes
over the years. Unfortunately for him, most
of them were recorded by other folks.
On Morning Bugle he joins with guitarist
Norman Blake and bassist Dave Holland.
Blake is a well-known Nashville musician,
but Holland is a surprise. His reputation is
mostly in avant-garde jazz and he keeps the
other two on their musical toes.
The album was recorded in one or two
takes with some fiddle and banjo
overdubbing put on later.
John Hartford is a good tune writer, as
he's proven, but he's also good with lyrics.
"Nobody Eats at Linebaugh's Anymore" is a
continuation of the sentiment found in
"They're Tearing Down the Grand Ole
Opry" on his last album.
He sings:
"Where can you go to see the country music
stars
that's what we come to Nashville for . . .
Now the Opry's gone and the streets are
bare,
Ernest Tubbs' record shop is dark.
And the drunks are gone from the
Merchants' Hotel,
Everybody's gone to the park. "
The album also includes "Old Joe Clark"
and "My Rag." In "My Rag" Hartford offers
a tongue-in-cheek lament about his lack of
musical ability, all the while the instruments
are tearing it up:
"Maybe I need me a buncha more notes and
some fancy chords,
Them weird ones like ol' Arthur Fiedler
uses. "
Jesse Winchester's new album, Third
Down, 110 to Go, isn't the quality of
Hartford's, but it's a good, solid, folky
album.
Winchester has surrounded himself with a
whole bundle of musicians to produce 13
good songs, but nothing particularly
outstanding. He produced much of the
album himself, but the ubiquitous Todd
Rundgren slips in to produce three cuts.
The better songs are titled "Isn't That
So," "Dangerous Fun," and "God's Own
Jukebox."
A third recently released country album
is John Hambrick's Windmill in a Jet Filled
Sky. Hambrick is (of all things) a television
newscaster in Cleveland. His delivery is a sort
of poorly executed Kristofferson.
But all good things must end and the
good things on this album end after the first
cut.
It is time for us all to work together for our rights.
If your landlord is hassling you and you want to do
something about it, call the ASUN office 12-4 p.m.
daily and help with a telephone survey. The secrotary
will ash you some of the following questions; amount
of rent, landlord name, condition of house or apartment
terms of the lease, and amount of the damage deposit.
The results of this survey will help us to investigate the
unfair rent practices reported in this community
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