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Program Guide for July - August 2004 Volume 1 OS, Issue 4 recycled music sale The Brawn GLT Recycled Music Sale Along with your musical items, we need volunteers to help It's the lucky 13th annual in a New Location! haul and lift and sort, and get good and dirty preparing by Events & Promotions Director Linda Healy for the sale. GLT volunteers are an important part of the Recycled Music Sale's success. Although it's a big task, it will also be the best fun you've had in a long time. Laughter The Place erupts spontaneously at the discoveries. Then there's a Well luck has something to do nostalgic sigh ... with it, but the GLT Recycled To sign up for hours during August 12 - August 22, call Music Sale only happens Linda Healy at 309-438-5083 or [email protected]. because of the generosity of so many faithful listeners and a special group of corporate The Sale sponsors that make it all possible. This year, in particular. The Recycled Music Sale kicks off with a members-only Preview night on Thursday, August 19. Everything has been sorted and For the last decade, we've had the great fortune to have College alphabetized for easy shopping and you get first dibs on the Hills Mall as one of our sponsors through the donation of a treasures. Only current GLT contributors can shop on Preview storefront in which to hold the sale. So when we heard about night. If you need to check the status of your membership, the new plans for the mall, while thrilled for the community, we contact Pat Peterson at 309-438-3581 or [email protected]. GLT were more than a little nervous about what that meant for GLT. memberships will be available at the door. The Recycled Music Sale is the station's single largest event to replenish the GLT Equipment Fund, which allows us to maintain, Following Preview night, the sale is open to the general public from enhance, and update the gear we need to make radio. Friday, August 20 through Sunday, August 22, with Sunday half price day. With bargain prices to begin with, half price is enough to We are happy to announce that we have a new location for this make our music buffs positively giddy. year's sale - Lakewood Plaza has generously donated the use of the former Shoe Carnival storefront at 1407 N. Veterans The Reward Parkway, Bloomington. Because we receive donations from far and wide, from every age, gender, and musical The Merchandise interest, we never know what we'll have. True, there will be more Chicago and Barbra Streisand than you can count. But there may also be that one elusive recording you've We collect music - this year, from July 5th through August 6th - at been hunting for years. There will be examples of cover art so amazing that you'll buy any of 14 drop-off locations in central Illinois (see insert). We them to frame. (See pg 4-5 for some staff finds) It may be sheaves of beautiful sheet music accept any musical items - LPs, CDs, cassettes, 45s, sheet music, that you'll use to wallpaper the study. Pick up one of Frank Black's 45s and hold a little even 8-track tapes. We also take working stereo equipment and piece of history right in your hand. functional musical instruments. Come just to marvel at the incredible common bond of Every year brings some new unexpected treat when it comes to music. We see multiple generations sharing some quality donations. This year GLT has benefitted from the housecleaning time reminiscing over, and discovering, the same stuff. of several local radio stations. Last year's sale netted over $20,000 which paid for 4 new computers for audio production in the GLT studios and And ... are you ready for this?? Frank Black, the Delta Doctor, has culled 4000 45s from newsroom, minidisk recorders for WGLT news reporting, his incredible collection and contributed the whole batch to the sale. (He's still hanging and 12 payments for one of the GLT vehicles (only 9 more on to his blues 45s, but this is an amazing collection of pop, rock, and country in pristine to go!). condition.) recycled music sale (cont.) ■ ■ ■ Treasure at the GLT Recycled Music Sale We often joke about the funny things that we've found in the past at the Recycled Music Sale, but there are some genuine treasures, too. Ask any of the serious music collectors who shop the sale every day, every year. And because everyone is looking for their own individual brand of treasure, there is more than enough to go around. Here are a few things that have been unearthed over the years. Join the hunt for your musical booty at this year's sale. (See pg 2-3 for complete information on sale dates and new location). ◄ • ELLINGTON COLUMBIA •• ·•• THE COUNT COUNT BASIE Frames for your finds will be available at the sale. interview ■ ■ ■ was a club he would play a lot. We'd take the ferry across the river to go down there. Later, Marcia Ball I did the record Hot Tamale Baby. I named the record after a Clifton song that I dug out W.C. Handy Award winner comes to town of a stack of 45's at a friend's house. I had the opportunity to tell C lifton that the record was dedicated to him, which was funny because he said 'Oh I forgot about that song,' and Marcia Ball is one of the headliners at the Nothin' But then he went out on stage and played it. The Blues Fest (July 23rd and 24th at Bloomington's Interstate Center). GLT Music Director Jon Norton JN: You've had a great year. You were nominated for a Grammy and you won two W.C. caught up with Marcia recently at her home in Austin. Handy Blues Awards in April, including Blues Album of the Year. What's next? Are we going to see a new CD soon? Jon Norton: When you were a kid, you heard songs and artists on the radio that a lot of us in the rest of the MB: We're talking more than working on a new CD. We're writing a little bit, but it's not country didn't hear. time yet for me to do another record. We need to give this album [So Many Rivers - see review on pg 10] a little breathing room. It's just been out a year now. It's been a busy, good Marcia Ball: Well I grew up in a part of the country year. I've got a song on the new James Cotton record that's coming out soon, and I have Marcia Ball where soul music was popular, where big homed bands a song on W.C. C lark's new record. I'm also involved in projects with the local Austin were the style of not just the latter day, but all the way musicians, so there's a lot going on! through. And I think we were getting stuff from Houston like Bobby Bland and Albert Collins.. .Lonnie Brooks was living down there, Gatemouth [Brown] was from around JN: Thank you for your time, looking forward to seeing you this summer! there. We were also getting a lot of New Orleans radio, especially when I'd visit my MB: Well thank you. Thank you for doing this. Grandmother down there ...we were hearing Fats Domino and all the New Orleans recording artists as well, so there was good radio to be had. JN: As a child, were you obsessed with the music you heard on the radio, or was the music Noth in' But The Blues Festival just a part of who you were? July 23-24, 2004 • Interstate Center - Bloomington, IL MB: That was just part of life, I was not focused that much on music at all really. Friday, July 23: JN: When did you begin to get really into music? Barb Hamilton .......................................................................................................................................... 6:00pm Steve"The Harp"Blues Band .............................................................................................................. 6:30pm MB: I had always played piano, and there were piano players in my family, so there was TBA ................................................................................................................................................................ 7·30pm always that influence. I got into college and that's really when I met people that were more "Skeeter" Brandon .................................................................................................................................. 8:45pm involved in popular music just day to day. And that's when popular music took off. Popular Marcia Ball ................................................................................................................................................ l 0:00pm music and my generation met in a good place. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were singing directly to us. They were playing good American music and filtering it back to us Saturday, July 24: in a rock 'n' roll way. I think my entire generation got more into it just because of the way Aa Travs' Joy Jumpers Children's Village .................................................................