45 REVIEWS/LP / A&M SP -6004 WILLIE NELSON (Columbia 3-10784) WHITE MANSIONS - Various Artists - - Blue Skies (3:32) (Irving Berlin - ASCAP) (I. Berlin) l`tt3tt. M:v utxi Producer: Glyn Johns - List: 9.98 Willie is hotter than ever, and with his "Stardust" LP still dominating the country charts, This concept album, written by Englishman Paul Kennerley, this Irving Berlin song has been pulled from that album. Equally as strong, if not stronger, traces the lives of three characters, as seen through the eyes of than his previous single, "Georgia On My Mind." This release should see instant adds a drifter, and how the three evolve as Southerners during the across the country. Civil War. The songs are sung by Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils' John Dillon and Steve TAMMY WYNETTE (Epic 8-50574) Cash. The lyrics paint several vignettes of various issues of the Womanhood (2:51) (Tree Publ. Co. - BMI) (B. Braddock) Civil War, from slavery to "white trash" to the fall of a southern Tammy's beautiful vocal style, coupled with a haunting instrumental beat, make this gentleman. Packaged with a 28 -page libretto, the LP will be the single a sure bet for programmers. Good placement of the male bass harmony adds to the focus of a major A&M campaign. all-around, captivating sound. JERRY LEE LEWIS KEEPS ROCKIN' - Mercury SRM1-5010 - Producer: Jerry Kennedy - List: 7.98 CONWAY TWITTY (MCA -40919) Among his other endearing characteristics, Jerry Lee Lewis Boogie Grass Band (2:19) (Bucksnort - BMI) (Ronnie Reno) is highly unpredictable. Just when you think he has abandoned Strong bass guitar and good banjo work highlight this bluegrass tune. Conway mentions rock 'n' roll forever, what does Jerry Lee do but reach back and Bill Monroe along with other bluegrass giants and even closes out with some yodeling. pound the ole piano harder than he has in years. There is some country on this album, but there are also new versions of "Blue Singles To Watch Suede Shoes," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Lucille." His new JOHNNY DUNCAN (Columbia 3-10783) single, "I'll Find It Where I Can," is not exactly parlor music. This Hello Mexico (And Adios Baby To You) (2:57) (Algee/Flagshio - BMI) (B. Sherrill/S. is good, lean Jerry Lee Lewis at his best. Davis/G. Sutton) LOVE ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART - Johnny Rodriguez Mercury SRM1-5011 Producer: Jerry Kennedy List: 7.98 GARY CHASE (Cherry Picker) (UR -1260) - - It's hard to go wrong when you have the good looks and rich Mississippi Pearl (3:48) (Jack Holland ASCAP) (Gary Chase/Valerie Ridenour) - baritone of a Johnny Rodriguez. This album overall is not as NICK NIXON (Mercury 55035) strong as some of his previous records, but Rodriguez is one of She's Lying Next To Me (3:16) (Peso - BMI) (Bill Haney) country music's premier ballad singers, and he depends heavily JOE STAMPLEY (Epic 8-50575) on the slower numbers here. There is a mixture of old and new If You've Got Ten Minutes (Let's Fall In Love) (3:12) (Galleon - ASCAP) (M. Dukes/J. material. Rodriguez blends "Love Me With All Your Heart" and Penrod) "Ramblin' Rose" with "It's Hard To Be A Cowboy These Days" and "Leavin' As Fast As I Can Crawl." HOWDY GLENN (Warner Bros. WBS 8616) Rogers United Ar- You Mean The World To Me (2:32) (Al Gallico - BMI) (Billy Sherrill/Glen Sutton) LOVE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT - Kenny - tists UA-LA903H - Producer: Larry Butler - List: 7.98 REG LINDSEY(Con Brio CBK 136) After a successful career in pop music, Kenny Rogers has I (Don King/Dave If l'da Known That Was Gonna Live This Long (2:25) (Wiljex - ASCAP) moved steadily and surely into the country market and added a Woodward) certain elegance to the field. No one in music possesses a more CRISTY LANE (LS GRT-167) controlled, appealing voice, and Kenny can adapt to virtually Penny Arcade (2:35) (House Of Bryant - BMI) (B. & F. Bryant) any style of music. His new album runs the gamut from country with a rock. The title cut, "Momma's JEANNE PRUETT (Mercury 55034) to straight pop touch of Waiting" and "We Could Have Been The Closest Of Friends" are I Guess I'm Not That Good At Being Bad (2:55) (Glenwood ASCAP) (Richard Allen) - outstanding. SUE RICHARDS (Epic 8-50546) Hey, What Do You Say (We Fall In Love) (2:42) (Starship/Galleon - ASCAP) (L. Dresser) Clement Begins Recording (continued from page 28) get something you can't get any other way. my attic up there and the musicians have to "When you are overdubbing, it sounds stand up. I want musicians to go out on a kind of nice when you are doing it," Clement limb. You can't get musicians to go out on a added. "But you got to always remember limb in a clinical studio. There is a thing of you are messing around with time and sorta going for it that is lost around here. It space. The record you hear on the radio rarely occurs to anybody to get out there never happened all at once. Overdubbing is and go for it. So you fall off the limb every something I like to play with when I want to now and then, nobody's gonna say fool around with my 24 -track, but I don't anything. tR. MUSIC DIRECTOR want to make all my records that way. "Also, there is no pacing in a studio," Cle- look in your mailbox Produced Jennings ment added. "You go in a studio, and they "I like to stack tracks and all that stuff, but want the tape rolling in five minutes. One mono, had run the thing DON N I E O H R S I was doing that 20 years ago - mono to thing about you to mono, mixing and echoing," continued Cle- through four or five times so the engineer has a new single ment, who produced "Dreaming My could get his part down. I think it is wrong to Dreams," Waylon Jennings's first gold learn a song and then record it. I think you «A album. "I don't even want to use much ought to learn a song over several days with both sides equalization because I want to have a room a band. You should experiment with it in dif- that sounds like a room, not a recording ferent keys and different tempos, and then FOR CRYING OUT LOUD studio. I think recording studios are the cut the thing. But you go imagine a studio worst place in the world to make a record. musician having to deal with up to four up- ant) in I've already proven to myself I can make tight producers a day's time - four dif- LAST OF THE records in a house (Clement recorded his ferent soap operas? It can drain you. HONKY-TONK HEROES E/A album in his attic studio.) Clement Begins Recording choose the side that will climb highest in the trade charts and sou or your Clement has been building the nucleus "But I'm proud of my studio here," Cle- listeners will be eligible to of a house band -a band he can take on ment continued. "The studio is something I WIN A TRIP the road and then bring back in and make have had to do in spite of everybody Crystal Gayle's I to records. "Peace and Quiet," because nobody understood what was do- road band, works with him when the group ing. The studio has been a fight - not using is in town. And Clement has formed an baffles, earphones, all that stuff. I waited ¡CAS VEGAS alternate band, including a horn section them all out. All these young elves I've got 3 days & 2 nights and two female vocalists, which he utilizes around here have never done it this way. on a continuous basis. In truth, Clement They have never made a record in three Includes round trip air tare and hotel accomodations for believes the present method of hiring ses- minutes. That is what I really want to do. I two at the world famous sion musicians makes little sense in making may take six months getting it ready, but I FRONTIER HOTEL 'natural' music. am gonna cut something in three minutes. 2 "I'm into learning several songs and That is one of the reasons it took me a year - Travel arrangements provided by CARDILLO TRAVEL ENTERTAINMENT DIVON working up a little repertoire with the band and -a -half to cut my album. I said I can cut worldwide » C2137%8-0427 «Your supporting act of stuff you are not even going to record - one in 30 minutes, but it takes a year -and -a - songs just to get the band moving and to half to cut one in that time." in Dallas,Ta. Don't miss Donnie's record preview party at The Old Warehouse get the licks out there," Clement said. Clement is well aware his views are July 6, 1978 "Then you can decide what you want to cut. singular and a touch off -center. But other MACK I WBAP t MASTER OF CEREMONIES BILL A band has got to play more material than people's opinions are not his concern. Cle- you are going to cut, and they need some ment is concerned with making music. instrumental stuff. People go Into recording "I get a big kick out of myself," said Cle- studios, and they don't have a warmup ment, who once produced a horror movie, period like you do in any other athletic en- "Dear Dead Delilah," starring the late deavor, and music is an athletic thing.