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Area blues artists finding
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Guitarist Sean Benjamin cooks up some hot licks
with Little Jimmy Valentine and The Heart Mur
murs. Bass player Larry Boehmer says the Heart
Murmurs are one of the few bands that have played
exclusive rythm and blues.
ByTViike Schmoldt
Lincoln's reputation as a rhythm and
blues outlet has been grwing ever since a
certain blues lover came to town in 1965.
Larry Boehmer, 31 -year-old owner of the
Zoo Bar, a blues musician himself, says
that through a slow process Lincoln has
become an attractive place to play for
many of the well-known Chicago blues
bands.
"Through the Zoo, we've been trying
to familiarize people with the blues and
(interest) has been building," Boehmer
said. "It's to the point where we can book
blues bands just about every weekend and
there's an audience for it."
According to Boehmer, his meeting with
bluesman Bob Riedy in Chicago three years
ago was a big break for people who wanted
to see nationally recognized bands playing
the Zoo. He said he arranged for Riedy to
play here first and that other bands
followed suit.
Riedy may be considered a Chicago
"contact" for Boehmer. He said Riedy
acquainted him with other Chicago blues
men and that he can contact him to find
out what bands are available, how they are
performing currently and other "inside"
information. Some of the Chicago blues
bands that have played the Zoo are led by
men such as Luther Allison, Carey Bell,
Mighty Joe Young, Magic Slim, Lonnie
Brooks and J.B. Hutto.
"The Zoo is more like Chicago blues
clubs than other places on these people's
tours," Boehmer claims. "That's why
they're more comfortable here. 1 think
they also find the audience receptive to
rhythm and blues."
Boehmer said he started working at the
Zoo in 1973, later managed the club and
then became its owner. He has a master's
degree in painting, but said he turned down
a teaching offer in order to devote time
and energy to working in the local blues
scene and making the Zoo a recognizable
blues outlet.
If reports from Paris are true, he has
succeeded in making the Zoo recognizable.
In Paris, where Boehmer says blues musi
cians are made into stars the way rock
musicians are in the U.S., Zoo T-shirts
have become extremely popular. "That's
what we hear, anyway," he said.
Boehmer notes that since he has been in
Lincoln, there has always been at least one
local band that plays rhythm and blues
exclusively.
Today, according to Boehmer, that
band is his own Little Jimmy Valentine
and the Heart Murmurs. Boehmer, a short,
bearded man with curly hair, currently
plays bass with the band and does back-up
vocals. He describes the most pleasurable
musical experience he's ever had as "any
time the whole band is working together as
a tight unit and is cooking and the
audience is responding."
Boehmer has played with bluesmen
Magic Slim, Carey Bell and J.B. Hutto here
in Lincoln and at their homes in Chicago.
Little Jimmy Valentine and the Heart
Murmurs play blues standards by those
men and others along with their own
compositions, according to Boehmer.
The blues have been a central part of
his life since childhood, Boehmer said. In
his opinion, there is something in the
future bluesman that shows itself early in
life and allows him to f 'develop the type of
attitude that lends itself to the blues."
When asked to define that attitude,
Boehmer said "it's. . .a feeling. You can't
get too definitive about it."
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"Ease On Down The Road," the first single from the
soundtrack "The Wiz," has just been released, and, in ad
dition to achieving "chartmaker" in Record World, re
ceived the following review:. . ."Quincy Jones' produc
tion of this first cut from the new soundtrack is flawless"
. . .This certainly paves the way for all 23 songs on the
double album set. "The Wiz" releases Sept. 18th with
Charlie Small's award -winning score augmented by origi
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tions from Ashford & Simpson. The talent on this album,
in addition to Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, include
Ted Ross and Mabel King, who recreate their Broadway
roles, Nipsy Russell and, of course, "Q" (as he's known)
who has worked for the past 16 monthes bringing "The
Wiz" to disc form. Says "Q". ."For many years, people
have been asking me, 'Quincy, what was your very first
big assignment?' My answer is, "The Wiz." And what a
cast! As Sidney says, 'No accidents there.' What a joy to
have singers who could act! What a diversity of
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19). Each artist had his own working way. Thelma
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capabilities. Nipsy, charmed his songs to pieces a stone
cold pro, and Diana Ross, spelled S-T-A-R, gave up every
drop; singing, dancing, and acting. She was singing a minor
third higher than she's ever sung in her life. Diana Ross is
probably the hardest working performer I've ever worked
with and just as beautiful a person."
Animal House Muck-Up In NYC. . .The party held fol
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soundtrack on MCA Records. The soundtracks' "Tossin'
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Stargard, and writer of "Shama Lama Ding Dong," the
most genuine 1962 r&b hit ever in 1978.
Quick Hits And Hot Shots "Battlestar Galactica'
premiered on ABC -TV September 17th as a three-hour
special with a weekly series to follow. The soundtrack of
this space adventure has just been released on MCA, of
course The long awaited Skynyrd's First and. . .Last"
has also been released. . .War returned to the Los Angeles
concert stage after a five-year absence and received a
proclamation of Los Angeles' Mayor Bradley. . .The
late Keith Moon called the New York Times and asked for
information on how he could be nominated for Pope. . .
Until next time.
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Post-hypnotic suggestion triggers
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activities as 'Hawaii Five
O.' starring Jack Lord (pictured),
returns to CBS-TV for its eleventh
season on Thursday. Sept. 28.
A planted agent, known in his
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