SMOKEY'S RECORDS
NEW s LET TER VOLUME ONE, NUMBER TWO WINTER, 1992
CHRISTMAS PARTY A CONVERSATION WITH LEONARD COULSON Smokey's Records This year bas seen the 20th anniversary of instrument to get the right effect, but we Invites you to an afternoon the Deseret String Baud and banjoist may change the rest of it. of merriment and good cheer Leonard Coulson bas been an integral part with food and drink provided. of that band for 19 of those 20 years. He Several ofthe band members have scholarly bas also been the owner of Intermountain backgrounds. Tom Carter has a background Sunday, December 13 Guitar and Banjo equally as long, a «ore in folk architecture and Hal Cannon started 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. that offers sales and repairs of fiDe acoustic a foiJclife center•.• instruments, among other thinp. I spoke with Leonard receatly about the Right. These guys are folklorists, broadly Deseret String Band and their work defined, and I'm not. I'm a musical performing and recording vintage tunes. instrument person. They have a much more scholarly view. Most of the stuff that we Your music has a sense of traditional play does not come from me. I'm not the arrangements, a capturing of the past that person who digs up the cool old material. might otherwise disappear. But those guys do. A lot of the stuff comes through Ron That's sort of the idea. The thing is, our Kane and through Tom Carter from their idea of what a traditional arrangement is playing and their interest in the music. 1515 South 1500 East can only come from as far back as events They get a lot material on tapes that may and things that you can hear, like from not be available to everybody~ld, old stuff early records. So, a lot of what we do and that goes amongst folklorist or musical what our background is is playing the kind enthusiasts. Ron also goes to a lot of fiddle of music that was arranged for the festivals and bas a lot of fiddling friends. recordings of the early 1920s when they We get a lot of our material through him first started making records. that comes from who knows where. Often we won't take the whole What we're playing I don't think we arrangement from a recording, only various really think of it as scholarly. Still, you parts of it. A baseline from a guitar that's don't want to do something that's the coolest thing in the cut might be the obviously anachronistic in some way. thing that we reproduce on a particular (continued on page 4)
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FINALLY LEONARD COULSON AVAILABLE IN (continued from page 1) I don't think of it as a hobby, but Like Dixieland music or chamber music certainly none of us play music for a living, COMPACT DISC! from Italy 300 years qo, you're trying to although Ron probably depends more on it create some sort of mood or sense of time. than the rest of us do. But we all have jobs But I don't think we think about it in a and a variety of interests. As much as scholarly way. I think we just start playing anythina, what keeps us together is we like and eventually work out some way that we each other. And if you don't keep at it, it like it and we're pleased to present it. gets too hard to do and then, after a while, We like to play. I think the thing that has it's agony. kept us going all these years is that we like Of course, I don't want to be taken to come up with a set of music and then advantage of when I play, but I don't really present it, if ()Dly for a short period, either care if I get paid or not when I play on a tape or at a couple of concerts. It's anymore. I want the job to be something new material that we then get to interpret in that either seems to be fun, worthwhile, our own way and present. interesting and if you get paid, great, and if you don't, that's okay too. Would you say the Deseret String Band is more of a serious hobby? ORDERING INFORMATION
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