RETRIEVER, 1-7 NOVEMBER 1975, PAGE 9 ' Records Superbow and the ·Great American Boogie Deficiency tight and flexible. Pay special attention to BY ELIAS LIEBERMAN his eight-to-the-bar boogip, numbers, for this is where Vassar truly shines. With the Vassar Clements'- "Superbow" (Mercury rhythm section walking the beat, Records) "B+" Clement's dances up, down and all Vassar Clements has been rosining up over the tune. Where-as Papa John Creach his bow for over twenty-five years but only plays his fiddle with a certain within the past few years has he come to sophisticated funkiness, Vassar exudes a the attention of devotees of pop and rock ' carefreer down-home mastery_ of his in­ music. Before that time Vassar Clements strument which he combines with the good had made a name for himself as a country taste to provide his sidemen with plenty of fiddler of the first degree. As country and room to solo. His pianist, Arthur Offen, has traditional music has wended its way into two of the fastest keyboard hands I've the mainstream of popular music over the heard in a long time when he jumps into past half-decade it was only natural for the his solo in the medley, "Vassar's Boogie­ country prodigies to lend their talents to One O'clock Jump!" the new country-rock hybrid. To date, "Superbow's" second side includes a Vassar Clements has recorded with over Clement rendition of "Orange Blossom seventy acts including the Allman Special", a fiddle classic. Surprisingly, . ' Vassar Clements Brothers, the Byrds, Tom T. Hall, Kris though, it's a bit disappointing. Better versions have been recorded by Seatrain Roger Miller's "King of the Road" has a hoogie deficiency. There is simply no other Kristofferson, , Gordon place here in an amazing treatment that way to account for the fact that record Lightfoot, the , and even Vassar himself on the Nitty starts off in % waltz time, moves through companies keep turning out look-alike , the and Gritty Dirt Band's tribute to American music, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken'?" an Allman Brothers phase and approaches sound-alike boogie groups by the dozens:' Doc Watson. His latest album, "Super­ jazz by the end - quite a feat for such a "Baby" is but the latest incarnation of the bow", justifies its title. "Barnyard Boogie", another eight-to-the­ The album includes seven instrumentals bar toe-tapper introduces Vassar's voice. tired old song. Steel guitarist Jim Murphy thump-thur,np, chunka-chunka boogie It reminds one of Dan Hicks music. Even and guitarists Dave Perkins, Jim Colvard mOl1ster. It IS also a compelling argument and two vocals. Clement's backup band is and Billy Sanford contribute tasty, flashy for boogie abortion. licks throughout. Only one cut, "Cross "Baby" is four would-be rock stars who To many people Burden is a lunatic and Country Run", falls 'below the level of the carved a name for themselves in the masochist; others have compared his rest of the album. Composed and sung by boogie belt of Texas and the Midwest with performances to religious experiences; guitarist Perkins, it's a rather · banal, the same tired ~ld combination of thudding BURDEN while some people have felt an intense . tuneless story about a trucker heading bass, three gUitar chords, macho lyrics Continued from page 3. personal relationship with Burden through west with his two little kids. Such a strong and a boogie hungry audience. Any record his act.. album can rise above a poor cut like that. that states emphatically on its back cover into a student locker (2'x2'x3') and Burden dEfscribes his act this way, "the If your taste leans toward country and that it was produced for maximum remained there for five days, without food, important thing is not that art is so great-to . country-rock, this album is bound to im- pl~ybac~ volume should make you think little air, only water dripping in from the look at but it changes your way of seeing. press. tWIce. Good music has nothing to do with locker above, and urinated out into the You look at the sky and say, "Hey, that's Baby- "Baby" (Mercury Records) "D" vol~me. Bad music is simply made worse area. below. Burden averages one per­ an Olitski blue; or you're eating a soggy It pains me to admit it, but America's at high volumes. Don't listen to'this one at formance every six weeks. hamburger and it changes into an youth must be sufferine from a serious any volume . . In a performance- entitled "Shoot" , Oldenburg_ That's tough art, man. My a_rt Chris had an assistant shoot him in the is tough, too. Not because I get kicked and ,arm. Later an interviewer commented crucified but because I change people that the assistant, "did a lousy job, he was inside. " only supposed to graze it. He nearly took. Come and experience Chris Burden on your arm off." Tuesdav. November 25th, for free. TM What SeminarI discussion IIIIIlIes Most movies have a predictable .WEDNESDAY-1:00 & 8:00 ttfe span. A couple of weeks, or DI._ may~e a month or two, and they're UMBC .Library , Room 003 - out of the theatres and out . run? of everybody's mind. A movie ~led"The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" could have gone that route. It's a film about an 18-year-old kid who plans to be a

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