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Good reading: Prairie Schooner, Fall, 1972.
University of Nebraska Press.
The Fall issue of Prairie Schooner is, for me, like
the two or three new pairs of Levis I buy each year. I
like to buy the Levis brand because they always look
basically right to me, even with their unfamiliar
newness.
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The new Schooner, even with its unfamiliar
freshness, already feels right to me. Sliding into it
provides some very good reading.
An initial cruise through this fall issue leaves three
entries standing in my mind. A story, "The Sandhill
Cross-Country Kid" by Aaron Petersen, and two
poems, "Maria Conception's Child" by James L.
White and Debra Hulbert's "Possession by Foxes" are
real satisfiers.
As with the new Levis, I haven't haa time to shake
out all the creases and loosen up the pockets of the
new Prairie Schooner. But I'm sure it will get
comfortable.
Because of thefts during the past couple of
months, a benefit concert for the People's Food
Co-op, "Our Store," and the ASUN Record Store will
be held Friday, from 8-12:30 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union Ballroom.
Last Chance, Bumpy Action and Chuck will be
providing the music. Admission's only a buck.
The UNL Theatre Department's production of
Bertold Brecht's play The Caucasian Chalk Circle
plays nightly this week. Curtain time is 8 p.m.
The Lincoln Community Playhouse Puppeteers are
preparing their Christmas production, The Cinnamon
Bear. It's slated to play before Christmas, although
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Cinnamon Bear was a radio serial of the 1930s.
The edited radio show will be broadcast on stage and
puppets will enliven the imagination of all.
And lastly, word comes up from Manhattan,
Kansas of two phenomenal nights of entertainment in
January. On Jan. 19 and 20, 1973 the Kansas State
Union is putting on a concert featuring a line-up of
musicians.
Headlining the show will be the Earl Scruggs
Revue. But the back-up acts won't be bad, either. The
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Byrds, Doc and Merle
Watson, David Bromberg, Tracy Nelson and Mother
Earth, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Joan Baez will all
be there performing their hearts out.
Each group is scheduled to put in a 45-minute set
and then they'll all join together. The concert's
organizers are figuring on about a seven-hour show.
The shows, beginning at 7:30 p.m., will be about the
same each evening.
Seats will be sold by section only, not by
individual seat. $6.50 will buy a seat in either section
A or B folding chairs C (bleachers, head on the stage)
or 2, 3, or 4 (balcony head on the stage.)
$5.50 is good for sections E and F (bleachers) or 1
and 5 (balcony.) Balcony sections 6, 7, 15, and 16 are
available for $4.50.
To mail order tickets, select the evening, ticket
price and section that you want. Enclose check or
money order and a stamped, self-addressed envelope
and mail to:
Scruggs Concert
K-State Union
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas 66506
Dead alive
in Europe
it's not
a concert
Review by Bart Becker
I wanted to like the new Grateful Dead album, Europe '72,
a lot. It was recored live during their recent European tour. I
knew that.
And when I saw the cover art on the three-record set, I was
sure it was gonna be another fine record. After all, "There is
nothing like a Grateful Dead Concert," according to the
booklet that comes with the records.
But an initial listening filled my head all up with doubts.
Oh, the songs were good enough. And the Dead are fine
enough musicians so there's no lapse of good music.
But it just didn't reach out and grab me like most of their
albums do. So I kind of wondered if something was wrong.
Well, I figured right off that it wasn't the record itself. So I
thought maybe my stereo equipment had gone a little haywire.
So I checked it out and it was okay.
About then I began to wonder. I was figuring that maybe
something was wrong with me. So I played Europe 72
through again. And wonder oj wonders, an amazing thing
began to happen. "
It sounded good. It sounded like the Dead, live as ever.
Boy, was I ever glad.
Recorded in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Copenhagen,
Europe '72 contains a lot that's right about the Grateful Dead.
They take a lot of things they've done in the studio and turn
themselves loose so most of the cuts run about five minutes or
longer.
The best of it is a rollicking "Jack Straw" and the stomping
"Sugar Magnolia," both recorded ar the Olympia Theatre in
Peris.
But the stuff on sides five and six, recorded at the Lyceum
in London is no slouch, either. It includes over 13 minutes of
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"Truckin"' followed by about 12-Va of the Dead at their
best-jamming. Then the album winds up with a 10-Va minute
walk into "Mornina Dew."
Don't buy Europe '72 expecting to get a Grateful Dead
concert. This record is not the total experience of a concert.
But it is a good portion of it..
And it sure sounds like they're having fun.
If you're ever had the slightest idea you mignt be interested
in country music you should pick up Will the Circle be
Unbroken .. On it the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band get together with
some of the country greats for six sides of the best country
music you'll hear anywhere.
The list of artists included on the album reads like a waiting
list for Tex Ritter's Hillbilly Heaven: Mother Maybelle Carter,
Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, Roy Acuff, Merle Travis and Jimmy
Martin, plus a bundle of their sidemen and studio musicians.
The album opens with "Grand Ole Opry Song" and closes
106 minutes and 19 seconds later with a guitar version of Joni
Mitchell's "Both Sides. Now" by Randy Scruggs. In between
it's just good music.
Included are Mother Maybelle Carter with "Keep on the
Sunny Side," Doc Watson on "Tennessee Stud," and Merle
Travis with "Nine Pound Hammer."
Side Four is all instrumental, featuring Vassar Clements'
fiddle on "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" and "Orange Blossom
Speical." It's hard to imagine anybody doing something with
the latter tune that hasn't been done but Clements adds some
new licks.
The side winds up with "Wabash Cannonball" featuring
Oswald Kirby and Doc Watson.
The next to last song is the A.P. Carter standard, Will the
Circle Be Unbroken. Ten musicians are joined by 21 voices on
the song.
Produced by William McEuen for the Aspen Recording
Society, Will the Circle be Unbroken Country Music 1972 at
its finest.
Monday
8 p.m. Howall Thaatra-"Cau-catian
Chalk Circla."
Tuesday
8 p.m. Howall Thaatra-"Cau-caiian
Chalk Circla."
8 p.m. Kimball Hall-Madrigal
Slogan and Clarlnat Choir Concart.
Wednesday
8 p.m. Howall Thaatra-"Cau
catian Chalk Circla."
Thursday
8 p.m. Howall Thaatra-"Cau-catian
Chalk Circla."
8 p.m. Kimball Hall-Faculty
String Quartat
8 p.m. O'Donnill
Audltorlum-Watlayan orchattra
concart.
TONIGHT 8-10 P.M.
BE A GOOD
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MISHINb MUNICIPAL
auditorium
4:30 and 8 o.m. Cammunitu
"layhouta-Puppataan prsssnt
"Cinnamon Baar."
8 p.m. Howall Thaatra-"Cau-catian
Chalk Circla."
8 p.m. Kimball Hall-Unlvanlty
Jazi Lab concart
Saturday
10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Community Playhouta-Playhouta
Puppataart pratant "Cinnamon
Baar,"
8 p.m. Howall Thaatra-"Cau-catian
Chalk Circla."
Art Gallerlei
Shaldon, 12th and R-Chflttmat
Fair to Dac. 23. Eric Abraham
radio-TV anhlblt to Dac. 31.
Eldar, Bltt and Baldwln-Patar
Hill paintings and Sldnay Buchanan
aculptura to Dac. 18.
CAMPUS BOOKSTORE 13 and r
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Hallmark American Greeting Cords
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daily nebraskan
monday, december 1 1, 1972
