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NEWS & EVENTS Thanks for Giving Trail in the Grand River VValley Helps Support Local Food Banks The very popular Grand River Valley Thanks for Giving Trail came to be.” Turkey Trot has been cancelled this year Out Of The Box” Live- due to Covid 19. However, members Thanks for Giving Trail Progressive Food Streamed Concert of the Valley Wine Group; made up of & Wine Tasting Menu: Debonné Vineyards, Cask 307 Winery, Series Debonné Vineyards- Grand River Cellars Winery & Restau- rant, South River Vineyards and Red Turkey Meatballs with Cranberry Chutney Music America has partnered with Cleve- land’s premiere music venue – The Music Eagle Distillery, have joined together Cask 307 Winery- Box Supper Club – to launch a monthly, to offer another option to help stock the Butternut Squash Soup live-streamed concert series that will be shelves of our local food banks. called the “Out of the Box”. The first show The Thanks for Giving Trail is a drive Grand River Cellars Winery & Restaurant- streamed live on October 30th featuring yourself progressive food and wine Cornbread, Bacon & Cheddar Stuffing Carlos Jones & the PLUS Band. With most tasting event which will be held from live shows being canceled, the band has South River Vineyards- turned to doing live streamed events in November 1st through November 25th Pumpkin Roll conjunction with Music America and has from 12-6 pm daily including Sundays. averaged 12,000 – 14,000 views per show. Patrons can stop at any, and /or all, of the Red Eagle Distillery- five participating establishments in any The streams are free to watch. They will Pumpkin Spice Martini with Cider Donut Wild Winter Nights at order they choose and enjoy 3 samples run from 8-10pm, streaming from the Mu- sicBox Facebook page as well as the band’s paired with Thanksgiving themed appe- Many of the wineries will have their gift Penitentiary Glen Facebook page. tizers, featuring each winery’s (and don’t shops full of great holiday gifts ideas Join in on a night-time journey through forget the distillery) picks for the holiday for those that are hard to buy for. Wine The next 2 shows to be live-streamed are: an enchanted winter forest as you hear the tale of a tiny bird’s quest to unravel a win- season. specials for the holidays will also be a November 25th with Armstrong-Bearcat ter mystery. Experience this naturalist-led highlight. All mandates set forth by Governor Mike December 26th with Carlos Jones adventure first-hand and explore all that DeWine must be followed, including Please help us stock the local food banks! (Due to COVID restrictions, there are a the story has to tell. Along the pathway, meet animal guests, enjoy luminaries and masks being warn prior to entering the Fall foliage is at its prime in Ohio’s Wine limited number of tickets available for warm fires, see the Kevin P. Clinton Wild- buildings. The cost for the trail is $6 per Country in the Grand River Valley Wine in-person seating at the venue.) person at each stop but, if you bring in a life Center yard ablaze with twinkle lights, Region. While visiting the area the group Music America is an entertainment promo- and take home a special keepsake. This non-perishable food item, $1 will be tak- encourages travelers to take a mini-va- tion company led by Jones’ manager – Larry unique hour-long program is designed for en off the price. Price includes samples, cation and spend their weekend in wine Koval and his team, which looks to put on small groups to provide a comfortable, appetizer, and recipes. country. There are lots of shops to visit unique events at various venues throughout safe and enjoyable experience for all. The Valley Wine Group was formed and beautiful covered bridges to check out the area with live music as the focal point. Time slots for your hike are selected upon Their first event was “Reggae on the Water” during the onset of the shut-down from in the area. There are also many lodging registration. Hour-long strolls leave every locations available, including the two in June of 2019 on the Good Time III. They ten minutes. Last hike leaves at 8:50 pm. Covid 19 to offer a local delivery service have now moved into the Live Stream / Vir- brand new hotels at the Madison exit, No strollers. Registration required. of wines and specialty items direct to tual Event production area as an alternative your front door in Ashtabula, Lake, Holiday Inn Express and Hampton Inn. channel to promote live entertainment. Dec 03 - Dec 05, 2020 6 PM - 10 PM Geauga, and Cuyahoga Counties. For those looking for other things to do Dec 10 - Dec 12, 6 PM - 10 PM in the area contact the Ashtabula County “We have also developed a show called The “The Winegrowers of the Grand River Cleveland Beat which we are bundling with Conventions & Visitors Bureau Dec 17 - Dec 19, 6 PM - 10 PM the Music Box/Out of the Box series for Valley established the Turkey Trot 13 All ages, Fee: $7 per person Register by www.visitashtabulacounty.com or the added interest and value to sponsors. It fea- years ago and our food banks have come calling 440-358-7275 or 1-800-669-9226 Lake County Conventions & Visitors tures interviews with artists, businesses and to rely on the donations this time of from 8 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Bureau www.mylakeoh.com non-profits on each episode.” Koval said. year,” says Cindy Lindberg, owner of Friday. Grand River Cellars. “Understandably For more information about the Thanks For more information or sponsorship oppor- Penitentiary Glen Reservation 8668 Kirt- for Giving Trail call 440-466-3485 or go tunities, contact Larry Koval the group did not want to continue with land-Chardon Rd. Kirtland, Ohio 44094 the event for this year but people are still to www.grandrivercellars.com ([email protected]). looking for safe and fun options so the Continued on Page 5 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 3 North Coast Voice CONTENTS MITCH LARSON

We would like to thank all of our sponsors and encourage our readers to patronize the fine busi- nesses appearing in the North Coast VOICE. NEWS & EVENTS 3 NEW READS 13 Editorial Director & Publisher Sage Satori [email protected] COOKING WITH WINE & BEER 6 MIND BODY SPIRIT 15 11/7 • 3:30 -7:30 Debonne Vineyards Assistant Editor Bob Moore ROOTSVILLE 16 BOOSTING THE BRAIN Protest Music, Part Six: The Power 11/8 • 2-5 Hundley Cellars w/Melissa Advertising & Marketing HAPPINESS 8 of Celebrity [email protected] 11/14 • 6-9 Trenda Jones TRIBUTE 9 Sparky’s Place w/Melissa Mentor, Willoughby, Chardon area MOVIE REVIEWS 19 Eddie Van Halen Spell, The Honest Thief, Creem: Staff Writers 11/21 • 3:30-7:30 Sage Satori • Cat Lilly America’s Only Rock and Roll Maga- Debonne Vineyards Patrick Podpadec • Helen Marketti PEDESTRIAN RAMBLINGS 11 zine, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 11/25 • 6-9 Film Critic - Westside Steve www.westsidesteve.com WATERFRONT FRONTLINE 12 528 Tavern w/Melissa A time to be thankful KICKIN' IT 21 Contributing Writers 11/28 • 6-9 Pete Roche • Bob Moore • Tom Todd Buccia Winery Donniella Winchell • Trenda Jones w/Melissa Alan Cliffe • James Onysko • John Stoker Steve Madewell • Nikki Vinyl 216-513-0529 for bookings Facebook.com/MitchLarsonAcousticMusic Circulation Bob Covert • Dan Gestwicki • Jim Ales Trenda Jones • Charleen Perry The Most Fun Radio on Radio LOST with The Most Fun Music! SHEEP BAND

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Fridays & Saturdays Big Ears is teaming up with MAI:JAZZ (Stavanger International Jazz Festival), Oslo's Sen- tralen Performing Arts Center, and Hes & Falck to present the Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival, CONNEAUT ARTS CENTER CLASSES HAVE RESUMED! a 15-program series launching on Friday, November 6 and spanning six weeks - Big Ears is the exclusive North American presenter of the Norwegian festival. Norway has been home to a rich Call 440-593-5888 for information! and fertile jazz scene for decades, first brought into the international spotlight by saxophonist Jan Garbarek's recordings for ECM Records. The Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival offers a multi-fac- Visit our restaurants, wineries and specialty eted portrait of the country's unique jazz scene, over seven double bill concerts, featuring artists including pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, saxophonist Tryvge Seim, guitarist Eiven Aarset, and trum- ice cream shops for a healthy, self-distanced, delicious peters Mathias Eick and Nils Petter Molvær, plus an evening with pianist Tord Gustavsen. Each experience! Our Covered Bridges are always open! performance has been elegantly filmed by the leading Nordic manager/promoter Musikkprofil at the Sentralen in Oslo, Norway. The Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail is an America’s scenic Acclaimed visual and performing artist Lonnie Holley will be joined by a remarkable ensemble byway which weaves along the southern shore of Lake Erie featuring cellists Ben Sollee and Dave Eggar, guitarists Christopher Paul Stelling and Phil Facon- for 293 miles, connecting many destinations between ti, fiddler Evie Andrus, and drummer Jordan Ellis. The band - assembled from musicians across Toledo and Conneaut. visit www.lakeeriecoastalohio.com the region - made this special recording set-up in the round at Knoxville’s The Mill & Mine, one of the cornerstone venues at the annual Big Ears Festival. Please visit us at our web site for updated information. Marisa Anderson, William Tyler, and Yasmin Williams - three of today’s most creative guitar- Like our Facebook pg. www.facebook.com/visitconneautohio and join us on ists - gather for filming at the Loghaven Artist Residency. Performing solo, duo and trio at this Instagram at www.instagram.com/visitconneautoh bucolic South Knoxville site, the musicians each showcase their unique musical vision on the Email questions to us at [email protected] instrument and then come together in collaboration. Shows in the Norwegian Digital Jazz Festival are $8 (plus service charges) in advance, or you www.visitconneautohio.com • FB: VisitConneautOhio can purchase a pass to the entire series for $50 (plus service charges). Please note: Big Ears is only streaming the Norwegian festival for North American audiences. 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looking the highest promontory of a distant, Boosting the brain chemicals associated with majestic planet in a galaxy far away. happiness The only way to ascend higher than that (sans drugs) would be to take flight on angel’s wings. TRIBUTE Which, for better or worse, Eddie has done. It’s a bullshit asterisk coming near the end of  By Pete Roche the crappiest of crummy years: Van Halen has come unplugged. But hey, let’s go back to that seven-year-old Acoustic rock/pop VEddie Van Halen immigrant for a minute. covers... old to new! In the time of rock ‘n’ roll guitar titans—the Despite his uncanny ability to arrange notes, late ‘70s through the early ‘90s—Eddie Van Edward Lodewijk Van Halen could never for- 11/6 Winery at Spring Hill, Geneva 6:30pm Halen reigned supreme, a feather-haired mally read them. He bluffed his way through 11/7 Ridgwood, Concord 7pm godhead whose fretboard flash and audiophile piano recitals, learning pieces by ear well omnipotence lifted listeners’ spirits even as enough to take top honors three years in run- 11/11 Debonne Vineyards, Madison 6:30pm their jaws dropped in wonder…and with no ning at a local competition. And when his first small amount of envy. A musician’s musician, guitars wouldn’t produce the tones he desired, 11/13 Seeing Double, N Olmstead 7pm Van Halen employed whichever tools and Eddie cobbled together his own “Franken- 11/14 Element 41, Chardon 6pm took whatever measures he deemed necessary strats” with assorted Stratocaster necks, bodies, to sculpt the sounds he heard in his head so and sundry pickups (which he’d dip in paraffin 11/15 Debonne Vineyards, Madison 2:30pm that others might hear them, too. wax to minimize feedback). And when club owners complained that his amp was too noisy, 11/21 Hellriegel’s Inn, Painesville DEBUT 7pm And if doing so meant breaking a few rules Eddie rigged it to a light dimmer (and later a along the way—inventing, ad-libbing, or just Variac) to reduce the incoming voltage from 11/28 Debonne Vineyards, Madison 3:30pm winging things a bit—so much the better. wall sockets. 11/29 Benny Vino, Harpersfield 2pm By most accounts, Eddie was a humble artist With a mechanic’s mind and surgeon’s hands who never forgot that before he became a he modified, customized, and tricked out his 12/4 Ridgewood, Concord 7pm global icon he was the son of a Dutch jazzman gear until the speakers regurgitated the “brown 12/5 Debonne Vineyards, Madison 3:30pm whose family migrated to the States in the sound” he wanted. As his pockets got deeper early 1960s with only a piano (and next to no and his sphere of influence much wider, Eddie 440-537-5758 comprehension of the English language). Just signed endorsements with Fender, Peavey, [email protected] another teenage hustler who painted addresses www.ericmichaelandrews.com on California curbs to earn money for records Continued on Page 10 www.facebook.com/erockohio by Cream, Jeff Beck, and Led Zeppelin. monolithic Marshall stacks thereafter, loving But he was also a disciplined guitar pupil every minute of it. whose monk-like focus made the hours spent Did Eddie truly deserve the accolades? After in his bedroom memorizing pentatonic scales all, even the best rock guitarist is still just a seem like minutes. Later, Eddie would rou- rock ‘n’ roll guitarist. As Rush’s Geddy Lee so tinely dismiss his technical accomplishments eloquently put it, “It’s not that noble a profes- as happy accidents—products of trial-and-er- sion. We’re not doctors doing brain surgery.” ror tinkering that anyone else might’ve done better. Asked about his otherworldly But one need not save the world in order to guitar prowess, he’d shrug and say his most take on messianic attributes in the eyes of one’s memorable solos were arrived at in much the followers. Musicians—like all artists—can same way as a classroom klutz constantly falls transcend, commemorate, inspire, or remind down the stairs…but always lands on his feet. us of our best (and worst) qualities as human beings. Music thus becomes sacred business, Eddie—the Jesus Christ and Pablo Picasso of its alternately mirthful and melancholy strains rock guitar—composed and performed music often described as our universal language. Real because he wanted to—had to—and the guitar mouth-of-God type stuff. Few arts can capture just happened to be his weapon of choice the joie de vivre as effectively—as immedi- (although he started out on drums and piano). ately—as music. And fewer still are musicians He’d enjoy the notoriety, wealth, and celebrity capable of distilling the ecstasy of existence that his wondrous woodshedding brought into lovely, loud, re-listenable passages like later, but he was astute enough to recognize Van Halen. The ability to create and deliver the temptations and trappings of that lifestyle. melodies so stirring, so sublime, is a rare Removing those spoils wouldn’t have kept a commodity in organisms that aren’t birds or guitar out of Van Halen’s hands. Money and whales. fame were never the impetus for homebody Eddie, whose work and leisure were often one Yet here was this goofy guy in patchwork jeans and the same. and a sleeveless, dice-adorned T-shirt conjur- ing horse whinnies, elephant bleats, and eagle So yes, Van Halen was ensconced on a lofty squawks from an electrically-enhanced piece pedestal when on October 6, 2020 he quit this of wood. mortal coil after a decades-long battle with cancer. But this king never sought a crown; Yeah, Eddie’s contributions to guitar-playing— it was we admirers who enthroned Edward in and to music as a craft and profession—do the eighties and worshipped at the foot of his warrant his place on the highest pedestal. On an elevated stage. Preferably constructed over- North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 9 North Coast Voice Continued From Page 9 of drug abuse and alcoholism, and by the turn Music Man, Ernie Ball and other manufactur- of the century he was beset with health prob- ers—allowing him to progress from home- lems (hip replacement, diverticulitis, tongue made “bastard” guitars to his now-familiar cancer) that restricted his touring schedule. “bumblebee” and red, white, and black-striped He’d sometimes appear on a T.V. spot or mag- Kramers (and replicas) to—lastly—his signa- azine cover (as he often did) looking adrift, ture Wolfgang and EVH brand instruments and burned-out, or otherwise unwell. And when amplifiers. Van Halen finally dropped the “new” studio album A Different Kind of Truth (2012) after Eddie patented a collapsing guitar mount fourteen years of radio silence, said disc (now (seen in the “Jump” music video) to orient featuring son Wolfgang) consisted mostly of his fretboards face-up, allowing for easier reworked castoffs from the late ‘70s (“Bulle- V string hammer-ons and pull-offs. He was thead,” “She’s the Woman,” “As Is,” “Outta a master of “ghost notes,” artificial / pinch Space”), suggesting that Ed—for whatever harmonics, string-scraping, palm-muting, and reason—just wasn’t keen on looking ahead volume-swells. He designed a unique truss ad- anymore, to say nothing of maximizing the juster for guitar tailpieces, and helped develop here-and-now. No one really expected him a locking tremolo system with Floyd Rose to to defend his guitar god title from any of his keep from going out-of-tune after executing knock-off “shredders” sound-alikes, or friend- “dive bombs” on the vibrato “whammy bar.” ly rivals (Vito Bratta, Nuna Bettencourt, Reb And he experimented with headless, all-syn- Beach, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani). thetic fiber Steinberger guitars in the ‘80s to alter his pitch on “Get Up” and “Summer But c’mon, man! You’re EDDIE VAN HA- Nights.” Eventually, Eddie even built his own LEN!!! You get to be EDDIE VAN HALEN studio—“5150”—outside his L.A. home to unique was the Van Halen dynamic: The com- colored sport jackets with zebra stripes, tank every day! USE YOUR SUPERPOWERS! accommodate his inventions and provide a sov- bination of Ed and Alex’s instrumental chops, tops, Hawaiian “jam” shorts, and neon and Shocked as we were to learn Van Halen ereign, self-controlled locus for his ingenuity. Roth’s ringmaster antics, and Anthony’s exqui- pastel print bandanas around his neck as he had succumbed to cancer, we weren’t truly Great responsibility comes with great power site high harmonies was unprecedented, mag- was in sweatpants or faded Levis. He looked surprised. And while the news came as a when you’re a guitar hero. Fortunately, Van ical. The band’s cool spins on old classics like rad whether kicking butt in Reeboks, Chuck serious body-blow—having grown up with Halen had the mental (and spiritual) where- “You Really Got Me,” “Dancing in the Street,” Taylors, or cowboy boots. Coupled with his Eddie’s music surrounding us, and having withal to use his toys for compositional good. “You’re No Good,” and “(Oh) Pretty Woman” copious hair (mullet or crewcut) and what first imbued him with a mystical aura reserved for To the uninitiated, Eddie was just another whet listeners’ appetites for muscly originals wife Valerie Bertinelli described as his “impish preternaturally-talented people—our chagrin charming rock star who performed novelty like “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love,” “Jamie’s grin,” Eddie was a charmer: A genuine, post- was tempered by the knowledge (or belief, “stunts” and “tricks” on the guitar. But he Cryin’,” “DOA,” “Light Up the Sky,” “I’m On er-ready rock idol who oozed charisma without anyway) that those final years removed from always emphasized style over speed. Indeed, Fire,” “Romeo Delight,” “Unchained,” “The actually saying much of anything (outside the public eye were likely spent enjoying time Eddie exercised considerable restraint (given Cradle Will Rock,” and “Hang ‘em High.” of guitar magazine interviews). Soft-spoken with “Wolfie” and his new bride, Janie. Eddie could make his guitar sound like church Ed preferred to let his axes do the talking. his virtuosity) when soloing, limiting his hot He deserved that, had earned that. He didn’t pipes (“Cathedral”), a flamenco (“Spanish Between his guitar heroics and Roth’s hijinks, licks to serve the songs rather than his ego. owe us anything more. Shame he wasn’t given Fly”), or an air raid (“Tora! Tora!”)—or make Zeitgeist-marking singles “Jump,” “Panama,” He didn’t invent two-handed tapping, but he another five or ten years to fully appreciate his a Wurlitzer organ sound like a guitar (“And the “Hot for Teacher,” and “I’ll Wait” made perfect furthered the technique (whose visual appeal retirement and reflect on his legacy rather than Cradle Will Rock”). sense on playlists (and Billboard charts) along- complemented its sonic advantages) into a live in its shadow—or under some false notion side The Police, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Paganini-esque niche art on “Eruption,” “Hot Stylistically, he mixed things up too, courting that he needed to add to it, to surpass it. When and Culture Club. for Teacher,” “Mean Streets,” and “Source folk on “Could This Be Magic,” jazz on “Big you’re the greatest rock guitarist since Jimi of Infection.” By the end of the ‘80s, every Bad Bill,” folk (“316,” “Neworld”) and coun- Van Halen also had the prescience to incor- Hendrix, when you’ve sold millions of records self-respecting rock and metal guitarist counted try with “Finish What Ya Started.” porate new tech into his writing. The “Mark and concert tickets, when you’ve recorded tapping in his (or her repertoire). The new gold standard was cast for aspiring II” era of his band—with singer Sammy dozens of unforgettable songs that became Using his surname as a band name, Eddie pop-metal mavens thereafter: You want to hit Hagar—saw an increased use of keyboards the soundtrack for a generation and whose rocked backyard parties and high school the big time, sweeten your catalog with a me- and synthesizers on 5150 (“Love Walks distorted, overdriven power chords, bluesy dances in and around Fresno and Pasadena in lodic ballad or an ear-catching cover. Teenage In,” “Dreams”), OU812 (“When It’s Love,” string bends, and crisp arpeggios motivated the mid-Seventies with drummer brother Alex, girls and soccer moms won’t care how many “Feels So Good,” “Mine All Mine”), and For countless others to take up the torch, well, banshee singer David Lee Roth, and bassist notes a guitarist can play in five seconds if his Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (“Right Now”). suffice to say you’ve done your part. And when inclined to stick to his guitars, Michael Anthony. He became “the guy” you song isn’t any good. If there isn’t any musical Van Halen music—which so singularly he’d tune them down (“Don’t Tell Me”) or had to see and hear, and his band graduated to or lyrical hook to latch onto. reflected Eddie’s (and our) primal passions tickle their magnetic fields with an electric clubs like Gazzarri’s and the Whiskey a Go Go and overall lust for life—is as timeless as that Van Halen had both—and by the end of 1983 drill (“Poundcake”). When not working on his on Sunset Strip, where KISS “demon” Gene of Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. Van a perfect storm of circumstances laid the stuff in the 80s and 90s, Eddie produced (and Simmons took interest in the quartet and fund- Halen records (CDs, streams, downloads, foundation for what would become the group’s played bass) on Hagar’s solo records, collabo- ed its first professional recordings. whatever) will always be around—and there piece de resistance, 1984: FM radio wasn’t rated with Queen’s Brian May, contributed the will always be well-schooled disciples who That demo tape got Van Halen signed to War- afraid of playing harder-edged hits by groups unforgettable guitar solo to Michael Jackson’s dedicate themselves to recreating Van Halen ner Brothers, with whom they released a sextet like Def Leppard, AC-DC, Iron Maiden, “Beat It,” guested on a Thomas Dolby album music in concert, much like today’s orches- of ground-changing boogie-rock, blues-metal, and Twisted Sister. Rock fans hungered for (Astronauts and Heretics), and lent worthy tras interprets a 19th-century Chopin opus or and dance albums like the eponymous Van something showier and more athletic than the pieces to soundtracks for The Wild Life (1984) Stravinsky ballet. Halen, Van Halen II, the eclectic Women and oft-pretentious prog and bombastic arena rock and Twister (1996). Children First, menacing Fair Warning, cov- of the ‘70s. Fledgling cable network MTV had But artists like that (Prince, Bowie, Lennon) For all the plaudits and praise, however (and ers-heavy Diver Down, and the multiplatinum caught on in a big way, so now rock could look are uncommon, which makes it that much despite his unassailable musical skills), Van 1984. The music was tailored for rowdy bars, as awesome as it sounded (Duran Duran, Pat harder for fans to refer to them strictly in past Halen wasn’t “perfect.” He was human—and weekend roughhousing, extended road trips, Benatar, ZZ Top, Billy Idol, etc.). tense. birthdays, beaches, and barbecues—which re- just as troubled and flawed as any of his confi- ally wasn’t anything KISS, Aerosmith, Boston Well, Eddie had the optics to match his out- dantes, associates, or devotees. The glory years Happy trails to you, King Edward, and thanks and others weren’t already doing. What was landish guitar bits, and was as comfortable in with Roth and Hagar were tarnished by periods for the music. 10 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 North Coast Voice

PEDESTRIAN RAMBLINGS ■■■ By Steve Madewell VOctober Light

As if this hasn’t already been a diffi- off or mailed away to be developed. After cult year, the passing of iconic figures several days, you picked up the pictures, like RGB, EVH, John Prine, and more and only after you paid for them you recently, Jerry Jeff Walker has illustrat- would find out if any were out of focus, ed that loss and challenges range from or maybe over or underexposed, or if the of Covid” I’m finding new approaches very personal to societal. And this year it lens on the camera was dirty. For me, to making my way through life. In earlier seems the hits just keep on coming. That it really was a little complicated and a “Ramblings” I’ve previously mentioned being said, on an optimistic note, the somewhat expensive experiment every that like a host of other musicians, I have earth keeps spinning and the sun keeps time I took a picture! Especially when done some Facebook live-streams, attend- rising and setting, and with every day compared to photography today when so ed a host of musical Zoom performances there is some beauty to behold and some many folks are walking around carrying and meetings, and posted a few things on kindness to find or share. a remarkable camera in their pocket with YouTube. Looking through the pictures What a spectacular fall we have enjoyed autofocus and zoom features which can on my phone the other night I got the idea in 2020. While this has certainly been a also take video and panoramic pictures, to create a presentation using Keynote challenging year we have been blessed without the expense of film or the cost or PowerPoint to make what we used to with a lovely summer and an incredible to develop the film! Realizing of course call a “slideshow” back in the days when fall. that if you take enough pictures, sooner we turned our good film pictures into or later, you might get a really good shot! slides. A slide by the way is a small… oh Whenever I was knocking around the So this fall, I burned up a lot of “film”, or never mind, anyway, I recorded a simple yard or hiking on one of the many trails more accurately I used up a lot of digital version of October Light and used it as here in Northeast Ohio, I often found storage, taking hundreds of photos of a soundtrack for this project showcasing myself thinking about the Robin and Lin- sunsets and leaves, rivers and trails and - da Williams song, October Light, which a few of the pictures I took this fall, sup waterfalls all the while thinking about the plemented with a few others from friends, is on their Deeper Waters album. If you beautiful October light that Robin and or from years gone by. It is a collection enjoy folk music, I highly recommend Linda wrote about. of photographs that illustrate in a humble this duo and this beautiful song is one of way, just how beautiful the natural world my favorites. I visited; Indian Point, Paine Falls, River View, Hogback Ridge, Erie Bluffs, and is here in Ohio. If you are interested in With the proverbial smartphone in hand, several of the Ashtabula Metroparks. checking it out, here is a link to my web like nearly everyone else I know, will And I also found myself driving back site stop and take pictures of lovely images at roads a lot this fall enjoying the contrast https://madewellmusic.com/performance-vids the drop of a hat. Some of us remember a of the vineyards and crop lands with the If you do, I hope you like the photos! It time when all cameras used “film”, with surrounding wood lots. might just motivate you to get out and a limited number of pictures available take a hike! on each roll, which had to be dropped And just like everyone else in the “Time North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 11 North Coast Voice group to help local residents and the environ- ment in and around Ashtabula County. Social distancing, masks, and capacity restrictions will be followed for any who chose to attend in person, however, this event will also be WATERFRONT FRONTLINE simultaneously streamed online for those who  By Justin Thompson wish to attend from the comfort and safety of home. Coronavirus has certainly changed many aspects of our lives these days; I know I never V thought I would be attending a virtual grand V opening before this year, but yet here we are. It’s important to reduce the risk of contract- ing and spreading this virus, and doing more things online and over the phone is one way to mitigate that risk. If you care about the quality of our local air and water, and want to help ACWW cover the legal fees and costs associ- ated with fighting for and protecting the rights of our community, you can donate and learn more by going to their GoFundMe page www. gofundme.com/f/appeal-the-epa-granted- petmin-air-permit . The beautiful natural resources we have here in Northeast Ohio are worth protecting, as are the relationships we have with our friends and A time to be thankful families. That is why I want to point out that this appeal is not meant to sow discourse in Thanksgiving brings together families and feel that our local natural resources deserve to our community, or discourage Petmin from friends as people take the time to stop and be appreciated as well. In the last few years, coming to Ashtabula County. Our County has appreciate what they have and the positives in the west coast has been facing an increasing been in need of jobs long before the Coronavi- their lives. I for one am glad that the election is amount of forest fires which has threatened rus came, and COVID’s effect on the economy over, no more political signs, commercials, and towns, lives, forests, and whole ecosystems. has certainly exacerbated the unemployment constant barrage of news coverage. Regardless Here in Northeast Ohio, we are fortunate rates and need for new local jobs. That being of who won, I think we can all appreciate the enough that we are not subjected to breathing said, it’s important that companies protect and break from all the political campaigning. Our in wildfire smoke or to having to wipe away have a focus on the triple bottom line (people, country is comprised of so much more than the accumulation of ash off our car windshields profit, and planet). Local residents can benefit just Republicans and Democrats. America in the morning on our ways to work. While the from the new jobs that this plant will provide. was founded by “We the People” and in these atmosphere here is not the best, (the American Petmin will certainly make a profit here (with tumultuous times of pandemics, unrest, and Lung Association rates our air quality with a the 50% tax abatement they are receiving to political divisiveness, it’s important to take failing grade), we are considerably better off build here). And equally important is that this time and remember what unites us rather than than several parts of the world where they plant has the least harmful impact on our local, focusing on what drives us apart. have severe pollution. If you’re like me, you regional, and global environment as possible think that our air quality is worth protecting Locally here in Northeast Ohio one thing that (especially considering that this facility is and don’t want to see it diminished any time unites (several of) us is our appreciation for set to be a major source of greenhouse gas soon…. Lake Erie, beautiful fall leaves, the first snow emissions). of the year (subsequent snows, maybe not so That is why I’m thankful for Ashtabula County In this season of giving thanks, I want to take a much), and the family and friends we have. Water Watch (ACWW) for filing a costly moment to appreciate all of the local frontline While often times it’s easy to take these local appeal and fighting to protect the air quality workers in the hospitals, nursing homes, and natural treasures for granted it’s important to that we will all have to live with for decades to other medical care facilities who are helping remember that these gems need taken care of come. ACWW has appealed the EPA’s air per- save lives during the pandemic. Also, I feel so that they will be here for years to come. mit (to emit more pollution than it would take it’s important to recognize and thank all of 30 million trees to absorb each year) to ensure When it comes to our friends and family mem- the school teachers, police and emergency that the Petmin plant operates according to a bers, especially in times of strife and political responders, grocery store and other essential higher standard with cleaner practices, reduced contention, it’s easy for relationships to strain workers, including those in various trades, rates of pollution, and installs monitors to keep and suffer. It’s time like these that it’s import- manufacturing, and service positions that keep the public informed about the potential risks ant to be able to communicate and connect our day-to-day lives and the economy moving. to air quality that local residents will have to with others and on more than one level. Having There are also several local nonprofits that endure for decades to come. friends from all walks of life, and being able have been providing services like food pantries to connect on the things we have in common Ashtabula County Water Watch themselves to those in need this year. If you are able, makes our friendships meaningful. It’s the have something to be thankful for this year please take a moment and donate to groups connections we share and moments we have with the Grand Opening of their new Head- and organizations that you appreciate as this together in life that brings people together and quarters on Bridge Street November 14th. This year has been hard on everyone, including unites them; good music and the occasional will be an open house event for people to be them. And last, but certainly not least, I am drink, discussing work, sports, books, thing able to check out the new storefront location thankful for you, reading this, because you we’ve seen or read on the internet, and just right in the heart of Bridge Street. This event are the friends, neighbors, and community enjoying each other’s company. provides Northeast Ohio residents with an members that help make Northeast Ohio a Personally, I find great solace in nature, and opportunity visit the new headquarters and truly great place to live and work. Happy learn about ACWW and their efforts as the Thanksgiving! 12 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 North Coast Voice Office, who frequented libraries and jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward), who was lonely but craved Don’t be a being alone. 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Throughout it all, he has amassed an unifying figures in Prince. extensive private archive of iconic guitars, stage (440) 576-5926 American culture: Neal Karlen was the costumes and personal memorabilia. Dolly Parton. only journalist Prince Now in The Anthology, Jimmy Page is granting Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and granted in-depth press exclusive access to his archive for the first time, airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed interviews to for over Continued on Page 14 Scott Treen firsthand the particular vulnerabilities—and a dozen years, from strengths—of women in working poverty. before Purple Rain to when the artist changed Meanwhile, country songs by female artists his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen played in the background, telling powerful sto- interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover ries about life, men, hard times, and surviving. stories, wrote “3 Chains o’ Gold,” Prince’s “rock In her family, she writes, “country music was video opera,” as well as the star’s last testa- foremost a language among women. It’s how ment, which may be buried with Prince’s will we talked to each other in a place where feel- underneath Prince’s vast and private compound, ings aren’t discussed.” And no one provided Paisley Park. that language better than Dolly Parton. According to Prince’s former fiancée Susannah Smarsh challenged a typically male vision of Melvoin, Karlen was "the only reporter who the rural working class with her first book, made Prince sound like what he really sound- Heartland, starring the bold, hard-luck women ed like." Karlen quit writing about Prince a who raised her. Now, in She Come By It quarter-century before the mega-star died, but he Natural, originally published in a four-part never quit Prince, and the two remained friends series for The Journal of Roots Music, No for the last thirty-one years of the superstar's life. Depression, Smarsh explores the overlooked Well before they met as writer and subject, Prince contributions to social progress by such and Karlen knew each other as two of the gang of women—including those averse to the term kids who biked around Minneapolis’s mostly-seg- “feminism”—as exemplified by Dolly Parton’s regated Northside. (They played basketball at the life and art. Dairy Queen next door to Karlen’s grandparents, Far beyond the recently resurrected “Jolene” two blocks from the budding musician.) He as- or quintessential “9 to 5,” Parton’s songs for serts that Prince can’t be understood without first decades have validated women who go un- understanding ‘70s Minneapolis, and that even Listen To heard: the poor woman, the pregnant teenager, Prince’s best friends knew only 15 percent of the struggling mother disparaged as “trailer him: that was all he was willing and able to give, trash.” Parton’s broader career—from singing no matter how much he cared for them. on the front porch of her family’s cabin in the and have a six-pack on us! Going back to Prince Rogers Nelson’s roots, Great Smoky Mountains to achieving stardom especially his contradictory, often tortured, and in Nashville and Hollywood, from “girl sometimes violent relationship with his father, singer” managed by powerful men to leader This Thing Called Life profoundly changes of a self-made business and philanthropy what we know about Prince, and explains him Make requests at empire—offers a springboard to examining the as no biography has: a superstar who calls in intersections of gender, class, and culture. the middle of the night to talk, who loved The Infused with Smarsh’s trademark insight, Wire and could quote from every episode of The Facebook.com/WFXJTheFox North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 13 North Coast Voice Continued From Page 13 finalist William Souder Steinbeck remains our great social realist nov- unmasking of the mysterious NOI founder and telling the inside story of his phenomenal explores Steinbeck’s elist, the writer who gave the dispossessed and “Fard Muhammad,” who preceded Elijah career. long apprenticeship as a the disenfranchised a voice in American life and Muhammad; to a hair-rising scene, conveyed writer struggling through letters. Eloquent, nuanced, and deeply researched, in cinematic detail, of Malcolm and Minis- In a new text of over 70,000 words, Jimmy Page the depths of the Great Mad at the World captures the full measure of the ter Jeremiah X Shabazz’s 1961 clandestine guides the reader through hundreds of rare items, Depression, and his rise man and his work. meeting with the KKK; to a minute-by-minute many of which are previously unseen, and others - to greatness with master 8 pages of illustrations account of Malcolm X’s murder at the Audu- of mythic status, such as the Gibson double neck pieces such as The Red bon Ballroom. guitar, his dragon-emblazoned suit, his white Pony, Of Mice and Men, Introduced by Payne’s daughter and primary embroidered poppy suit, and the outfit worn in and The Grapes of Wrath. The Dead Are Arising: researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her the concert film The Song Remains the Same. Angered by the plight of father’s death, heroically completed the biog- the Dust Bowl migrants The Life of Malcolm X V Also included are handwritten diaries, corre- raphy, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating who were starving even as they toiled to harvest spondence, rare vinyl pressings, previously Authors Les and riveting work that affirms the centrality of California’s limitless bounty, fascinated by the unpublished photographs and much, much more. Malcolm X to the African American freedom guileless decency of the downtrodden denizens Payne & Tamara Jimmy Page has personally selected each piece struggle. to be photographed in this book, which has been of Cannery Row, and appalled by the country’s Payne created with his full participation. refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against An epic biography Somewhere You Feel The result is Jimmy Page: The Anthology. Both social injustice―paradoxically given his inherent of Malcolm X finally reflective and revealing, it is quite simply the misanthropy―setting him apart from the writers emerges, drawing on Free: Tom Petty and legendary musician’s most comprehensive and of the so-called “lost generation.” hundreds of hours of Los Angeles fascinating account of his life to date. the author’s inter- A man by turns quick-tempered, compassionate, views, rewriting much and ultimately brilliant, Steinbeck could be a Author Christopher McKittrick of the known narra- Mad at the World: A difficult person to like. Obsessed with privacy, tive. Life of John Steinbeck he was mistrustful of people. Next to writing, his A complete history favorite things were drinking and womanizing Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–win- of Tom Petty in Los Author William Souder and getting married, which he did three times. ning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 Angeles. And while he claimed indifference about success, on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview When Tom Petty A resonant biography of America’s most cele- his mid-career books and movie deals made him a anyone he could find who had actually known arrived in Los Angeles brated novelist of the Great Depression. lot of money―which passed through his hands as Malcolm X―all living siblings of the Mal- in 1974 in search of colm Little family, classmates, street friends, The first full-length biography of the Nobel quickly as it came in. And yet Steinbeck also took a record deal for his cellmates, Nation of Islam figures, FBI moles laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at aim at the corrosiveness of power, the perils of band Mudcrutch, the and cops, and political leaders around the the World illuminates what has made the work income inequality, and the urgency of ecological Gainesville, Florida world. His goal was ambitious: to transform of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary collapse, all of which drive public debate to this native found one almost what would become over a hundred hours of canon: his capacity for empathy. Pulitzer Prize day. immediately. While interviews into an unprecedented portrait of he thought he had found exactly what he was Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from looking for in L.A., it would take years for Petty fiction. and his subsequent band, the Heartbreakers, to The result is this historic biography that con- break onto the pop charts. Within the following jures a never-before-seen world of its protago- two decades, Petty would stay planted in Los nist, a work whose title is inspired by a phrase Angeles through chart-topping albums, battles Malcolm X used when he saw his Hartford with record labels, personal struggles, collab- followers stir with purpose, as if the dead were orations with rock and roll royalty, and even truly arising, to overcome the obstacles of rac- an arsonist burning down his home in the San ism. Setting Malcolm’s life not only within the Fernando Valley. Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop From the earliest Heartbreakers concerts in of American history, the book traces the life of Los Angeles at the legendary Whisky a Go Go one of the twentieth century’s most politically and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, to the relevant figures “from street criminal to devot- band’s final concerts at the iconic Hollywood ed moralist and revolutionary.” Bowl, Petty aimed to continue the tradition In tracing Malcolm X’s life from his Nebraska of the Southern California rock and roll of birth in 1925 to his Harlem assassination in his musical heroes like the Byrds and Buffalo 1965, Payne provides searing vignettes culled Springfield in his own fashion. At the same from Malcolm’s Depression-era youth, describ- time, Petty’s career often coincided with seismic ing the influence of his Garveyite parents: his shifts in the music business, indicated by Petty’s father, Earl, a circuit-riding preacher who was famous refusal to back down in the face of label run over by a street car in Lansing, Michigan, management, industry conventions, and the in 1929, and his mother, Louise, who contin- changing courses of platforms that helped make ued to instill black pride in her children after him a superstar, like rock radio and MTV. Earl’s death. Filling each chapter with resonant Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los drama, Payne follows Malcolm’s exploits as Angeles explores the artistic life of Tom Petty Enjoy Great Savings With a petty criminal in Boston and Harlem in the through his career-long relationship with Los 1930s and early 1940s to his religious awaken- Angeles and the many colorful characters and ing and conversion to the Nation of Islam in a venues that inspired him and his music—includ- Massachusetts penitentiary. ing his work with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, “Discount Deals” Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash, Roger McGuinn, With a biographer’s unwavering determina- Online: www.mix971FM.com tion, Payne corrects the historical record and Leon Russell, Rick Rubin, and Del Shannon. delivers extraordinary revelations―from the (Releases Nov. 17th 2020) 14 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 North Coast Voice MIND BODY SPIRIT  By Amanda Nelson Neal’s Yard Remedies, Natural and Organic VSkincare Cosmetic Laser Medispa & More is excited of product go a long way. 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We are the compass for the U.S. That minister was Dr. Martin Luther humanity’s conscience.” King. A slew of the era’s biggest celebrities, Harry Belafonte recruited by calypso singer Harry Belafonte, lent their support to the movement, a bold endeavor that, for many of them, meant There seems to be much controversy of late losing money, fans and gigs. But for them, over the issue of celebrities speaking out bolstering the Civil Rights Movement, which about politics. From Robert DeNiro to Meryl led to the passage of laws like the 1964 Civil Streep, from Cher to Madonna to Lady Gaga, Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, from Bruce Springsteen to LeBron James, was well worth any sacrifice. countless celebrities from the worlds of film, Many of the African-American members stage, music, comedy and sports have used of Belafonte’s posse had been speaking out their platform to voice their opinion on our against racial injustice and voter suppression present administration’s policies. This has for years. Among this crew were Lena Horne, spawned a huge backlash from the right. A Marian Anderson, gospel singer Mahalia quick glance at social media leads to seeing Jackson, Nina Simone, bluesman Josh White, statements like “You’re a singer, not a poli- folk singer Odetta, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, tician, nobody cares what you think, stick to Diahann Carroll, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Sid- singing.” Criticism of the “Hollywood elites” ney Poitier, the first African-American movie runs rampant, and even the word “elite”, once star to win an Oscar for best actor. Writer used by Donald Trump to describe his golf James Baldwin and baseball pioneer Jackie courses, buildings, and residence, has now Robinson joined the ranks of the politically become a dirty word. active, as did Josephine Baker, who came home from her adopted France to perform at 16 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 North Coast Voice after a nuclear holocaust, and Odds Against Tomorrow, the story of a bank heist gone wrong. Both movies dealt with issues of race, and both films were altered in mid-produc- tion by MGM due to racial issues. Belafonte became disillusioned with the Hollywood movie-making machine. It was around this time that Belafonte re- ceived a call from Dr. Martin Luther King, requesting to meet with him. “It won’t take long”, he said. It was a call that would set the course for the rest of his life. After a four- hour meeting, Belafonte was fully committed to King’s philosophy of non-violence and Harry Belefonte & Martin Luther King brotherhood. He says of their first meeting: Joan Baez and his activism. One night Robeson attended “I knew then that I would forever be in his Belafonte’s show at the Vanguard, and came service, and I knew how long and perilous our the Lincoln Memorial. backstage afterward, offering Harry some ad- journey would be.” vice: “Get them to sing your song, and they’ll Folk singers like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Paul Newman Belafonte emerged as a strong voice for the Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul, and Mary want to know who you are.” civil rights movement. Through Dr. King, were always on hand to help out the cause. by the grueling work of peasant life on the Belafonte appeared in a Broadway play called he met the Kennedys, campaigned for JFK, The coterie of A-list stars who joined the island and learned the songs they would sing “Almanac” for which he won a Tony Award. and earned the respect of RFK. He provided movement included Tony Bennett, James to get through the long workday. These were He toured the South with a production called financial backing for the Student Nonviolent Garner, Shelley Winters, film producer Frank some of the first songs that he would become “Three for Tonight”, where he experienced Coordinating Committee and participated in Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, Burt Lancast- known for as he started his career as an adult. firsthand the hatred and racial intimidation, numerous rallies and protests. Then in 1963, er, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and He saw firsthand the oppression of the native even by law enforcement, that was prevalent Belafonte helped organize the March on even Charlton Heston, who later denounced Jamaicans by the English authorities, which south of the Mason-Dixon line. In Las Vegas, Washington, in which King delivered his fa- the Democratic liberals and became a lead- made a strong impression on him. His mother the discrimination was no better – he had to mous “I Have a Dream” speech. Coretta Scott ing proponent of 2nd Amendment rights. raised him to believe that there was nothing enter by the back door and stay in the black King said of Belafonte, “Whenever we got Martin Luther King knew he could not gal- unattainable in life, and to awaken every section of town, not at the hotel where he was into trouble or when tragedy struck, Harry has vanize support or raise funds for his move- morning with the idea to include something performing with his white co-stars. always come to our aid, his generous heart in the daily agenda that would help set the wide open.” The two men remained steadfast Protest Music ment by himself. He understood the power Belafonte was one of the first black stars to course for the undermining of injustice. friends until King’s assassination in 1968. of the relatively new medium of television appear on television. He appeared on the Ed Part Six: The Power of Celebrity and the role the press could play, if they Young Harry dropped out of high school and Sullivan Show, Dinah Shore, and the Steve In 1959, Belafonte starred in Tonight with chose to. He knew the country had never tak- enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1944. After his Allen show, where he accepted three Gold Belafonte, a nationally televised special en black people’s word for the horrors they discharge, he worked as a janitor’s assistant in Record awards - one for his 1956 album Ca- sponsored by Revlon, who allowed him to endured. White Americans, through their a tenement building. One day he fixed a blind lypso, the first full-length album ever to sell have creative control. Rather than choosing televisions, would have to see, with their for a tenant and was given as a gratuity a one million copies, one for selling a million an A-list star, he featured Afro-American folk own eyes, some of those horrors enacted. ticket to a production at the American Negro copies in England, and one for the single, singer, Odetta Holmes, “Water Boy” and who How did TV news networks become the Theater (AMT). Mesmerized by the perfor- Banana Boat Song/Day-O (originally a Jamai- performed a duet with Belafonte of “There’s chosen instrument of the revolution? Brave mance, the young Navy vet volunteered to can work song), which proved to be a huge a Hole in My Bucket” that hit the national white Northern journalists charged into the work for the AMT as a stagehand, eventually hit. More than just a popular tune, it also held charts. Belafonte won an Emmy for the show, South, making common cause with black deciding to become an actor. He studied special meaning for Belafonte: “That song is the first Jamaican American to do so. He was activists to expose the racial injustice of Jim drama at the Dramatic Workshop run by a way of life,” Belafonte later told The New one of many entertainers recruited by Frank Crow simply because that was the right thing Erwin Piscator, where his classmates included York Times. “It’s a song about my father, my Sinatra to perform at the inaugural gala of to do. Marlon Brando, Walter Matthau and Tony mother, my uncles, the men and women who President John F. Kennedy in 1961. During Curtis. He appeared in musical productions, toil in the banana fields, the cane fields of the 1960s he introduced several foreign artists Martin Luther King also realized the power and caught the eye of an agent who offered Jamaica.” Calypso introduced America to a to American audiences, most notably South of celebrity. At his behest, his friend Harry him the opportunity to perform at a jazz club, whole new genre, traditional Caribbean folk African singer Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Belafonte organized a multi-racial cast of backed up by talented musicians like Charlie music, and launched a calypso craze. The folk Mama Africa, who was exiled from her coun- musicians, actors, movie directors, and other Parker and Miles Davis. Belafonte became a songs of Harry’s youth had brought him luck. try for speaking out against apartheid. performers who answered the call and helped popular act at the club, and in 1949 landed his The success of his musical career led him to During the 1960s, Belafonte appeared on spur the movement. The presence of beloved first recording deal. public figures at protests and marches added Hollywood, where he experienced a more TV specials alongside such artists as Julie a level of credibility and some semblance of He was well on his way to becoming a subtle form of racism – a battle over creative Andrews and Lena Horne. In 1968, two-time protection from angry white mobs. jazz singer when he stopped in the Village control, content, and style. He made several Grammy-winning British singer Petula Clark Vanguard one night and heard a singer named movies, including “Carmen Jones”, with was riding a wave of Top 10 hits and was a Belafonte Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly). He had never Dorothy Dandridge, and “Island in the Sun”, popular guest on American variety shows. heard that style of singing before and was so which was considered controversial because She was set to do a musical special for Ameri- can TV, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, Harry Belafonte was born in Harlem, New impressed that he decided to go to the Library it depicted a friendship between a black man and asked Harry to be her co-star. He was her York in1927, the child of Jamaican immi- of Congress and search out old folk songs. and a white woman. The film was pulled from one and only choice. grants. His mother worked as a domestic By the early 1950s, Belafonte had dropped theaters in the South. popular music from his repertoire in favor of and his father was a chef on merchant ships Belafonte formed his own film company, Within fifteen minutes of Belafonte’s accep- traditional folk music from all over the world. who abandoned the family when Harry was Harbel, but still needed backing from MGM. tance to appear, Doyle Lott, an advertising born. During his childhood, when times were Another huge influence in his life was Paul He made The World, the Flesh, and the Devil, executive from Chrysler, was objecting to hard, Harry and his brother were sent to stay Robeson, star of all-black musical Showboat, a film about the last three people left on earth having a black man on the show. Petula stuck with relatives in Jamaica. He was struck who he greatly admired, both for his talent Continued on Page 18 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 17 North Coast Voice Continued From Page 17 celebre’. Petula was aired on NBC on April Off The Wooden Spool 2, 1968. America watched as, for the first time, a white woman touched a black man’s arm on primetime television. The show received rave reviews and dubbed “a stylish, sophisticated musical hour, simply smashing”. (The only bad review was from the newspa- Etsy: Off TheWoodenSpool per of the KKK.) In the aftermath V of the special and the coverage that “the touch” generated, two Handmade Face Masks further television milestones in regards to race would occur later in the year. Harry Belefonte For The Music Lovers Harry Belefonte The September premiere of Julia was the first sitcom to star a black woman who had a role as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, professional career, and the November Star he has campaigned to end the practice of to her guns and filming began. Clark and Be- Trek episode “Plato’s Stepchildren” featured apartheid in South Africa and has spoken lafonte both performed individually, and then an inter-racial kiss between William Shatner’s out against nuclear weapons and U.S. mili- sang a duet on “On the Path of Glory,” an Captain Kirk and Nichelle Nichols’s Uhura. tary actions in Iraq. anti-war song Clark had co-written. The emo- Another largely overlooked television mile- In the 1980s, Belafonte visited Ethiopia tion of the lyrics resonated in their voices and stone occurred in February 1968, when Amer- And For The Movie Lovers on their faces, and halfway through the song, and was horrified by the effects of the hun- ica was embroiled in protests over civil rights ger pandemic on the population. He came Petula reached over and put her hand over and the Vietnam War. In that tumultuous time, Harry’s forearm, a simple gesture that would up with the idea of recording a song with “The Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson other celebrities, which would be sold to have gone unnoticed in her native country. turned over hosting duties for an entire week That fleeting moment prompted Doyle Lott raise funds to provide famine relief. Written to Belafonte. His cast of guests included Mar- by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, “We to again protest vehemently and demand the tin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, just segment be reshot without the touching. Just Are the World” featured vocals by a host Can be found at my Esty Shop months before they were assassinated. of such music greats as Ray Charles, Diana https://www.etsy.com/shop/OffTheWoodenSpool as before, Petula and her producers refused. Word leaked out in the press about the Johnny Carson was a private kind of guy, Ross and Bruce Springsteen. The song was off [email protected] incident, turning it into a multi-racial cause keeping his personal life and political opin- released in 1985, raising millions of dollars ions to himself. There is much speculation as and becoming an international hit. Belafon- to why he invited Belafonte to take over for a te chartered a gutted 747 to drop supplies week. (It was “probably the most revolution- to the starving population, ensuring that ary move that mainstream television could life-saving resources got to the people who have done at the time,” says Questlove.) It needed them. does seem likely that Carson had a social Belafonte has achieved some of the highest conscience and admired it in others. “We honors possible over more than a half-cen- just want you to be who you are,” Belafonte tury in the public eye. He was a recipient remembers Carson telling him. That meant of Kennedy Center Honors in 1989, the bringing a political dimension to the evening National Medal of Arts in 1994 and a that was not quite the ‘Tonight Show’ thing. Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in Belafonte’s guests included Lena Horne, 2000. Additionally, in 2014 he received the Nipsey Russell, Bill Cosby, Buffy Sainte-Ma- Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the rie, Petula Clark, Dionne Warwick, Robert Governors Awards. Goulet, Sidney Poitier, comedians Tom and Harry Belafonte was in the news recently, Dick Smothers, and a trumpet-playing Paul when portions of a video posted online Newman, all engaged in searing, in-depth by White House social media director interviews, taking place in an America that Dan Scavino, meant to make it look as was a country on the verge of radical change. though Joe Biden were falling asleep in an A new documentary, produced by MSNBC interview, were recognized as having been anchor Joy Reid, revisits this historic week pulled from a 2011 interview with Bela- in television history. “The Sit-In: Harry Bela- fonte instead. Twitter branded it as “manip- fonte Hosts the Tonight Show” is available on ulated media.” This revelation prompted NBCUniversal’s streaming platform Peacock. Belafonte, 93, to release a statement: “They “You can cage the singer but not the song.” keep stooping lower and lower. A technical glitch in an interview I did nine years ago In the early days, Belafonte’s candidly now becomes another one of their lies, more expressed opinions sometimes landed him of their fake news.” And he encouraged in hot water. He was investigated by the FBI people to vote. and blacklisted but he never gave up the fight. Over the years he has taken up many “Each and every one of you has the power, causes at home and abroad, among them child the will and the capacity to make a differ- incarceration, prison reform, gang violence, ence in the world in which you live in,” Listen online at gold937fm.com and Native American rights. In addition to his -Harry Belafonte- 18 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 North Coast Voice that wasn’t on the hit list. Another shout out to the good folks at Kent Cinemas for running a few afternoon shows. THE HONEST Westside THIEF might be another one of those that has been sitting on the shelf and released to the Steve MOVIE REVIEWS theaters maybe because of a lack of anything  By Westside Steve Simmons more impressive. That doesn’t mean this westsidesteve.com Liam Neeson crime saga is without merit, it’s not bad, it’s just that this is the time of year New CD the studios should be at each other throats “Great Wishes & Small” with blockbusters. Oh well. V sassy old country grandma. Of course, looks Hard copies available by email can be deceiving and if they weren’t this flick Our hero is Tom, (Neeson), nicknamed the in from the website, and or all would have been pretty short. Pretty soon it and out bandit or burglar, a nickname he de- digital streaming download platforms. dawns on him that he’s being held against spises, who has stolen at least 9 million bucks his will; not allowed to go out and search for over the last decade or so without leaving a his wife and kids. One night he sneaks out trace. Alas father time has caught up with our Wednesday 11/11 the window then crawls across a couple of boy and he feels the need to settle down with North Olmsted VFW 7647 rooftops to spy on a Voodoo ritual in which the love of his life Annie (Kate Walsh), the a cat is killed and its eyes and tongue used in woman who owns the storage units in which Private VFW members and guests a spell. One can only imagine that if a cat’s he keeps that 9 million bucks in cash. Now from any VFW Post parts can work magic imagine how much in an effort to come clean, Tommy makes stronger it would be with a human being. And the decision to turn himself in to the FBI and yes, that’s exactly what the creepy country return the 9 million in exchange for a reduced Saturday 11/21 • 8:00 PM coven has in store for him. sentence and ride off into the sunset with his Eastland Inn I won’t give you the details of the ending but lady love. Unfortunately, it turns out that half it really is pretty silly. As a matter of fact, a the crackpots in the city have turned them- Saturday 11/28 • 7:00 PM Spell lot of this movie is pretty silly but let’s face it, selves in and his call to the bureau is taken most horror movies fit that description. And as just another waste of time. Even worse the FINNEY'S SPORTS BAR Paramount|R|121 min that’s too bad because with a few tweaks to pair of cops that finally look into the matter Westside Steve spectacular annual the script, SPELL might have been good. By are crooks themselves and seize upon the birthday celebration brand new location Spoiler alert the way folks remember that I grade horror opportunity to keep the money for themselves same old Norton! and double cross our hero as well as the FBI. First of all, you realize it was just Halloween movies on the horror movie curve, so, this www.westsidesteve.com and it’s inevitable there’d be at least a couple one’s about average. I do give these guys Of course, Annie gets involved and winds up of horror movies to hit the theaters. Thanks credit for using Screamin Jay Hawkins’ I Put in the hospital which really pisses our boy to the pandemic a lot of them are showing a Spell on You in the soundtrack. off and the game is afoot. There are enough twists and turns to keep you awake along reruns but there are a couple new ones. I C suspect the impact of either of them will dis- with enough second-rate plot devices to keep appear as quickly as the Reese cups in a trick WSS the movie from getting a stellar rating but an or treat bag but for this issue we roll the dice ending that’s just clever enough to push my with SPELL a tale of voodoo set in back- grade over the halfway mark. woods Appalachia. Here I give great credit Some of the blemishes on the story include to the producers because while the cast is en- these. Tom, an ex-marine a criminal genius tirely African-American this film isn’t about and munitions expert whose crimes have gone race at all. This script would have worked unsolved for years and years, sure seems to as well with any group of people and any make some stupid decisions. And you have to spiritual cult you can imagine. Now don’t get wonder how Annie, the love of his life who your hopes up gang, it’s still not very good he is preparing to settle down with, has had but at least it’s not a political sermon. no clue as to what he’s been doing for a living Omari Hardwick is Marquis a successful for the last decade or so. Also, and maybe it’s executive of some kind making arrangements just me, but on top of the lack of on-screen to attend his father’s funeral somewhere chemistry, Kate Walsh isn’t really looking apparently inaccessible to automobiles. For- good enough to make me want to risk my tunately, he has a pilot’s license and loads the life and give up 9 million smackers. And this wife and two kids on a small plane to make happens in a lot of movies but still annoying; the trip. The foreboding starts pretty quickly in some of the many gun battles (with pistols as the old geezer at the convenience shop that apparently have a never-ending supply near the remote airstrip tries to sell him a of bullets) the FBI trained renegades hold magic good luck charm. He refuses but takes their weapons sideways as if they were in a the opportunity to toss in a quick product The Honest Thief gangsta rap video. Still the honest Thief gets placement shot of Lay’s potato chips (given extra credit just for the fact that I could sit in Open Road|PG 13|99 min the production value that probably paid for a theater and eat popcorn and that counts for the whole project). Well, the puddle jumper Things are getting tougher all the time for something in this era. runs into a bad storm and crashes in the movies especially with the demise of one of C+ woods. Marq wakes up alone in the bedroom my favorite chains the Regal Cinemas. They of an old farmhouse being tended to because had a lot of locations, good quality screens, WSS he has a badly injured foot, by Eloise (Lo- and could be counted on for matinee timing retta Devine) who seems to be a sweet and and even an occasional airing of something Continued on Page 20 North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 19 North Coast Voice Continued From Page 19 imaginable sport, political viewpoint, or craft, Also there’s that age thing, if you are musical there’s a publication for you. Many of us here roots are Sinatra or 1950’s doo-wop, early holding a copy of The Voice in our grubby 60s Folk, late sixties British Invasion or little hands probably share a love of rock and Disco you probably weren’t reading anyway. roll music, or at least music of some kind. I But if you did and you know the writers or have to imagine that age will determine what you’re a member of the journalistic commu- particular genre will appeal to any of us but nity it just might spark some interest. For if you are members of a particular generation those people this is probably a B+ or an A. you probably remember 16, Tiger Beat, or For the rest of us? Teen Set which begat Rolling Stone, Down- C beat, and the roughest and craziest one of the V bunch, Creem. The latter came into existence WSS a year after RS and was named after another popular band of the time Cream. I would have guessed a documentary on this rock and roll publication would have included story after story of interesting things that happened with the popular stars of the time but that’s not Creem: America’s quite it. This is the low budget collection of interview Snippets with employees, a few Only Rock and Roll rock stars hangers on Etc. sharing memories Magazine mostly about the two protagonists or antago- nists depending on your view, publisher Barry Netflix documentary|Not rated |75 min Kramer and Cutting Edge critic Lester Bangs, the king of curmudgeonly reviews.. We Americans are a fairly successful lot and as years have gone by we’ve found ourselves From ramshackle beginnings in Detroit, with more and more leisure time. Gone one of the pioneer cities of rock and roll, are the 12- or 14-hour work days trying to laying claim to such luminaries as; Smokey scratch enough food out of the ground to Robinson, Alice Cooper, MC5, the Stooges, survive like our Pioneer ancestors and we find P Funk, and so on, Creem magazine carved ourselves looking for hobbies. Whether it’s out a niche that would earn a cult following automobiles mechanics, World Travel, any for those who loved the bleeding edge of rock and roll. Unless you are really into the Borat Subsequent magazine and familiar with the staff the sto- Moviefilm ries might not be all that interesting. Kramer didn’t think much of Rolling Stone publisher Amazon|96 m|R Jann Wenner, a rich kid who preferred pop Hey gang this really isn’t much of a review More Country GUARANTEED! music and schmoozing with celebrities to because for the first time in a long time I just writing about the nitty gritty of metal and couldn’t make it through the film. Maybe punk. One of the anecdotes is of the news- if I’d taken the time to drive to a theater
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Tickets for individual shows and the three-night series KICKIN’ IT are on sale now. https://boxoffice.mandolin. com/pages/patty-griffin-live-from-the-conti- nental-club “I’m sure you have heard by now what a Kelsey Waldon Stands Up For What She Believes devastating moment it is for many live music VIn On New EP They’ll Never Keep Us Down Out venues throughout the country,” said Griffin. “This translates to job losses on so many levels November 20th - the hardworking people that run these venues, book these venues, clean and repair them, take Waldon’s haunting version of Nina Simone’s your tickets and serve your beers there, not “Mississippi Goddam,” is out now. “I want to mention many musicians like myself who Patty Griffin to work towards a new southern strategy have depended on them for years to not only Maine because my South is a South for all people,” connect us to income in our touring work, but State Theater – Portland, Maine says Nashville recording artist and proud also for the spirit they extend to us in each 9:30 Club – Washington, D.C. Kentucky native Kelsey Waldon. The next step community.” The Birchmere – Alexandria, VA forward in Waldon’s mission for progress and Union Transfer – Philadelphia equality in her beloved homeland is to release “These are places where live music has been Stuart’s Opera House – Nelsonville, OH her new EP, They’ll Never Keep Us Down, a loved and nurtured in our country. In Austin Haw River Ballroom – Saxapahaw, N.C. collection of timeless yet timely cover songs. alone, it has been estimated that 90 percent of Duling Hall – Jackson, MS NPR/World Cafe premiered the EP’s first venues have already closed their doors forever. Rev Hall – Portland, OR single, “Mississippi Goddam.” With the help This business for the most part is a labor of Aladdin Theater – Portland,OR of guest vocalists Adia Victoria and Kyshona love, so not a lot of huge financial safety nets Neptune Theater – Seattle Armstrong, Waldon tackles this Nina Simone there for many. I am hoping with these shows Troy Music Hall – Troy, N.Y. classic with a swirling, angry, country-ish Kelsey Walden with John Prine to raise awareness and maybe a little funding South Orange Performing Arts Center – South feel, rekindling Simone’s fire from when the too for some of these places that are struggling Orange, N.J. song was written after white supremacists progress that drove Waldon to revisit this host to stay afloat in this shut down.” of powerful songs; from Neil Young’s “Ohio” Tarrytown Music Hall – Tarrytown, N.Y. killed four young girls in the 1963 bombing The venues being supported by the concerts to Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas’s “I Wish I Boulder Theater – Boulder, CO of a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama. are: Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”—which The Vic – Chicago NPR/World Cafe’s Bruce Warren commented, ACL Live - Austin, TX features Devon Gilfillian—to Waldon’s late Landmark Theater – Port Washington, N.Y. “There’s an electrical, pulsing change in tempo Boothbay Opera House – Boothbay Harbor, compared to Simone’s original, yet the cutting friend, mentor, and record label founder John message remains the same. With Victoria and Prine’s “Sam Stone.” They all share a strong Armstrong adding their voices to this version, common thread; accepting the need for change along with Waldon, makes an already powerful and what it means to push for it. Waldon’s song even stronger.” Watch the lyric video view on the matter is cut and dry, with no room www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIjLnAhTMd4 for interpretation; a call to conversation with her fellow southerners who may not yet think The B-side of “Mississippi Goddam”— is along the same lines. “This is about listening the EP’s title track, Hazel Dickens’ “They’ll to someone else’s perspective,” says Waldon. Never Keep Us Down”; a power-to-the-people Overall, They’ll Never Keep Us Down burns traditional bluegrass burner with refrains like bright and hot; a torch in the night for those “They’ll never shoot that union out of me” and who’ve not yet seen the light and a friendly “Your welfare ain’t on the rich man’s mind.” beacon for those who are already on their Hear both “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” and march to achieving justice for all. “Mississippi Goddam” now right on Spotify. They’ll Never Keep Us Down Tracklisting: Additionally, Waldon will be releasing two dif- 1. The Law Is For Protection Of The People ferent, limited edition, colored vinyl versions 2. Ohio of They’ll Never Keep Us Down; proceeds 3. Mississippi Goddam from the red vinyl will benefit Hood to the 4. Sam Stone Holler, a non-profit organization aiming to 5. They’ll Never Keep Us Down end racial injustice in Kentucky and beyond, 6. With God On Our Side and the blue vinyl will benefit Appalachian 7. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free Citizens’ Law Center, who represent coal miners and their families on issues of black lung and mine safety. Both vinyl editions can Griffin stages benefit be pre-ordered here. for music clubs “This song [Mississippi Goddam], which showcases racial injustice as well as the Patty Griffin has announced “Patty Griffin enduring fight and fear that the Black com- A Residency Streaming Live Show from the munity has had to endure in this country for Continental Club,” a three-show livestream centuries, still rings true decades later,” says residency to be broadcasted from the Continen- Waldon. “Today in 2020, as we push for tal Club in her hometown of Austin. progress, sometimes it still feels like we are The shows will take place Nov. 7, 21 and Dec. going backwards.” It’s that backsliding of 5. Each show in the three-night series will North Coast Voice Magazine | northcoastvoice.com • (440) 415-0999 | Nov. 4 - Dec. 9, 2020 21 10/29/2020 USp157

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