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Haggard's new farm group,
music win audience approval
By Mike Grant
Staff Reporter
Will the real Ode Haggard please
stand up?
I ask this because during his Neb
raska State Fair performance at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center Sunday
night, Haggard treated the audience to
two versions of himself.
At times, Haggard was a western
swing bandleader in the tradition of
Bob Wells and his Texas Playboys. At
other times, he was a redneck version
of Woody Guthrie.
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Either way, Haggard was a big hit
with the 7,000-member audience from
the moment he stepped on stage wear
ing a blue Nebraska Future Farmers of
America jacket and a white cowboy hat,
until he closed the 90-minute concert
with "Okie from Muskogee".
Opening with "The Orange Blossom
Special," Haggard and fiddler Jimmy
Belkin broke into a searing fiddle face
off. Both emerged as winners.
The rest of the show was basically a
review of Haggard's greatest hits,
including "Pancho & Lefty," "Looking
for a Place to Fall Apart" and "Natural
High." The latter two Haggard per
formed with opening singer Janie Fricke.
Haggard has a rich, sweet baritone
voice with plenty of depth to reveal
emotion. It's no accident that he uses
the fiddle's rich tones to highlight his
voice.
Haggard's back-up band, The
Strangers, have overwhelming talent. It
Is a shame that group members aren't
well known in their own right.
Not only was Belkin in top fiddling
form, but Mark Reary on the piano gave
some memorable Jam sessions.
However, The Strangers' brass sec
tion was used too much. Horns don't
work well In country music, and during
the concert the two horn players
sounded almost like a lame Dixieland
band. Instead of enhancing the songs,
they seemed like an intrusion into the
music.
Clint Stroam is an excellent lead
guitarist, but his nimble, almost jazzy
sound got bothersome after a while. It
eventually faded off into background
music. It's pleasant and mellow, but
nothing to write home about.
All in all, Haggard is a good band
leader. He just needs to keep the pace
up and to integrate the sound of his
sidemen.
Alternating with the crooning and
western swing was Haggard's popular
working-man mentality.
Before Haggard got on stage, a spo
kesman explained Haggards interest
in the current farm crisis. Haggard, we
spokesman said, was founding U.b.A.
for America,"; a -group to help the
beleaguered farm economy.
Along with aiding the destitute
. countries of the world, the United
States also should concentrate on its
current domestic problems, Haggard s
spokesman said.
In this spirit, the spokesman said,
the concert in Lincoln would be used
for a live record called "Amber Waves
of Grain The American," which will
be released soon after the Farm Aid
concert in Champaign, 111., next month.
Oh yes, Haggard did get to sing a
little. Nobody does a better job singing
about the depressions and dreams of
the U.S. working class than Haggard.
From his childhood poverty in Bakers
field, Calif., to the time he served in
prison (he was pardoned by then-Gov.
Ronald Reagan) Haggard has lived,
well, a haggard life. And it all comes
out in songs such as "Momma Tried," a
tune about the son who went bad, and
"Big City," a tune about escaping
urban dreariness for the freedom of
Montana.
The crowd saved its biggest reaction
for Haggard's theme song, the ultimate
redneck anthem, "Okie from Musko
gee." Although deep down it's a silly,
bullheaded song, Haggard plays it like
the relic it is and without any apologies.
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This record isn't country enough to
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upbeat, uplifting collection of fun,
danceable pop tunes with a veil of
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And it sounds better every time I listen
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In the tradition of country-western
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