The following list is a brief
guide to weekend events. Please
call venues for more information.
CONCERTS:
Brass Rail, 14360St
Friday: Rascal Basket
Saturday: Gigglebox
Duffy's Tavern, 14120 St
Sunday: Happy Dog
Duggan’s Pub, 440S. 11th
St
Friday & Saturday: Grateful
Dudes (S.O.U.P.)
Guitars & Cadillacs, 54000
St
Friday: Junior Brown, Cactus Hill
Saturday: Ivory Star
Knickerbockers, 901 OSt
Friday: 8th Wave, Scott’s Wallet
Saturday: The Case Wicked, The
Feds
Pta-Mor Ballroom, 6600 W.
OSL
Friday: One More Time
Sunday: Sandy Creek, High
Caliber
Royal Grove Nite Club, 340
W. Comhusker Hwy.
Friday & Saturday: Bossphilly
Town A Country Dance Hall,
33 A Comhusker Hwy.
Friday & Saturday: Full Choke
Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St
Friday: Martin Zellar & the
Hard ways
Saturday: The Heart-Murmurs
THEATER:
Lied Center for Performing
Arts, 301N. 12th St
Friday: Suzanne Somers
Lincoln Community
Playhouse, 25005.56th SL
Friday, Saturday & Sunday:
“Charlie & the Chocolate Factory”
Mery Riepma Ross Film
Theater, 12th & R streets
Friday, Saturday & Sunday : “The
Opposite of Sex”
Star City Dinner Theater,
Eighth & Q streets
Friday, Saturday & Sunday:
“Schoolhouse Rock”
GALLERIES:
Aardrarx, 700OSL
Friday: opening of encaustic
paintings and sculptures by David
Alles
Gallery 9,124 5. Ninth SL
Friday: opening of glass works by
Judith Andre
By Sarah Baker
Senior staff writer
Forget mix tapes.
Thanks to CDuctive, a new, interac
tive Web site designed to let users create
and cut their own, personalized compact
discs, the time has come to throw out
your tape-deck-laden boom box and
groove into the 21st century.
CDuctive, located, at www.cduc
tive.com, was officially launched in
January 1998 and has since signed more
than 150 European and United States
record labels, most of which have a focus
on dance, electronica and indie music.
According to Alan Manuel, one of
the trio of site founders, CDuctive is a
one-of-a-kind site.
Manuel said he first came up with
the idea after he noticed a lot of his
friends came to him and asked him to
help diem pick out music for their own
personal collections.
“A lot of people have difficulty find
ing new
artists and staying up with new music,”
Manuel said. “The average person is
familiar with the Internet, but would not
go to the indie record shop and buy the
tracks they like. This gives them a
chance to be on top of things, and also
only select the tracks they realty like.”
CDuctive gives users the chance to
look through thousands of song titles,
listen to a portion of the track they
choose, and then select up to 72 minutes
worth of music that is then burned onto a
personalized disc.
The entire process is completely
interactive, and customers can even
pay for their orders via fax.
Please see DISCS on 13
Brown crafts his own musical style
By Jason Hardy
Senior staff writer
His voice comes through the radio
like a message from God: deep and
vibrant, yet comforting at the same
time.
And you say, “Oh God, this boy
can sing.”
His guitar, a double-necked little
thing that he invented himself, cries
like a baby in church on Sunday. And
you’d swear he had a few extra
appendages to help with the scratch
ing. This boy can play.
nc nas me presence ox a legend
and could pass as the ghost of coun
try’s past, but there’s nothing super
natural about him. He’s no spirit,
demon or divine deity - he’s Junior
Brown.
Close enough.
Junior Brown, one of country
music’s few and true originals, is
known and loved for his persistence in
doing things his way. By combining a
number of musical elements and
adapting them to fit his style, Brown
has concocted a unique recipe for an
old-style country/rock ‘n’ roll shish
kebab.
Tonight Lincoln gets to take a bite.
Brown and his crew will make the
long haul from Texas to Lincoln for a
show tonight at Guitars & Cadillacs,
54000 St.
The tour is in support of Brown’s
latest release “Long Walk Back,” one
of his most musically diverse offer
ings yet. It has all the elements of yet
a
Everybody likes
variety in music but
the problem is when
you start not being
like everybody else”
Junior Brown
singer
another Junior Brown classic: from
slow and honky-tonky songs about
Texas to doo-wop rock ‘n’ roll love
tunes - all along sounding simple and
honest.
Of his kaleidoscope style, Brown
says it’s just the way he is.
“Fve just always liked a lot of dif
ferent kinds of music,” Brown said in
a phone interview from Austin, Texas.
“I don’t like to take on too many styles
of music, but if you can pull it all into
your own personal style and make it
your own, it really works. But the
material has to be stuff that you can
justify as doing yourself.”
With everything Brown has done,
justification should be his middle
name. Originally from Indiana, he
grew up exposed to the country
sounds of his neighbors and was lata:
influenced by his father’s big band
and swing outfit. From there he
Please see JUNIOR on 13
_ Coubtes? Photo
GUITAR CRAFTSMAN and Southern legend Junior Brown treks to Guitars &
Cadillacs, 5400 0 St., tonight to support his new album “Long Walk
Back.” Brawn has become famous for his custom-made hybrid guitar and
stirring songs.
