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CCR (don’t make me hurt you) #150/239 JULY 2009 JOHN THE REVEALATOR FREEFORM AMERICAN ROOTS #119 ROOTS BIRTHS & DEATHS REVIEWS $ $ $ $ $ Cor not) RAY CHARLES TISH HINOJOSA • KAREN MAL GRANT PEEPLES JERRY SIRES BAND 2009 KERRVILLE WINE& MUSIC FESTIVAL 10th Annual SCHEDULE OF CONCERTS AND EVENTS FRIDAY. Sept. 4_______ SATURDAY. Sent. S SUNDAY. Sept. 6 $24 in advance / $30 at gate $28 in advance / $35 at the gate $28 in advance / $35 at the gate (Ticket booth & campground open at 1 p.m.) (Campground gate open 24 hours) (Campground gate open 24 hours) IQ a.m. Bike Ride ___________ 26 mile road ride of the Hill Country 11 a.m. Folk Song Service-Chapel Hill Rudolf Harst (San Antonio TX) 1 p.m. Concert - Threadeill Thea. 1 p.m. Concert • Threadeill Thea. Abi Tapia (Housatonìc MA), New Folk In-The-Round with: Big Wide Grin (California & Virginia) Joe Crookston (Ithaca NY), Rebecca Loebe (Attenta GA), Ben Matiott (Austin TX), Louise Mosrie (Greenfield MA), Tom Neilson (Greenfield MA), RADISSON 3 p.m. Ballad Tree - Chapel Hill 3 p.m. Ballad Tree - Chapel Hill HOTEL AUSTIN g Michael McNevin (Fremont CA) Don Conoscenti (Taos NM) Bob Livingston (Austin TX) NORTH t *3:30 p.m. Wine Seminar-Threadgiii *3:30 p.m. Wine Seminar-Threadt-m AUSTIN, TEXAS -8 Texas Ports Vintner's Choice - Texas Reds For information or to request jf g 7 t>.m. Evening C oncert______ 7 o.m. Evening Concert__________ 7 p.m. Evening Concert___________ a reservation packet, call (830) 257-3600 or email to Brian Ashley Jones (Nashville TN) Greg Trooper (New York NY) The Siekers (Austin TX) alliancefabkerrville-music.com. Chip & Marvin (Austin TX) Michael McNevin (Fremont CA) Bob Livingston (Austin TX) Registration forms are available Don Conoscenti (Taos NM) Stonehoney (Austin TX) The Ginn Sisters (Austin TX) on-line at: www. SWRFA. COM Los Texmaniacs (San Antonio TX) Baskery (Stockholm Sweden) Thad Beckman (Portland OR) Karen Abrahams (Austin TX) Ecléctica (USA) Fred Eaglesmith (Port Dover ONT Canada) Tickets: Order on-line at www.KerrvMeiolkSesttval.com or call the festival office at (830) 257-3600 RV SITES Sunday Afternoon New Folk In-The-Round A limited number of RV hook-up sites are available in the campgrounds. Sites with water+electricity+sewer are $30 per night. Sites with water+electricity only (for small campers and pop-ups) are $25 per night. RV site occupants can keep one tow vehicle on their site at no additional charge. Reservations required. RV reservations and fees do not include festival tickets. Call (830) 257-3600 for info and availability. SLEEPER VEHICLE PERMIT RV s or trailers that set up in the campgrounds without hook-ups require a Joe Crookston Rebacca Loebe Ben Matiott Louise Mosrie Tom Neilson permit. Also, obvious sleeper vehicles such as vans, pick-ups with camper shells, etc. may purchase a sleeper vehicle permit for a single $20 fee ADVANCE DISCOUNTS (advance discounts expire 8/28) CAMPGROUND FEES You must have a festival ticket in order to camp or enter the upon entry. No ins and outs for sleeper vehicles. If the vehicle doesn't 3-day Ticket (Fri, 9/4 - Sun, 9/6) - $75 campgrounds during the festival! A wristband is required to enter leave the campground, no additional camping fees will be required. $20 Single Day Tickets - Advance prices listed above campgrounds after 6 PM. Tent camping (wristband) fees are $5 per will be charged for EACH re-entry to the campgrounds. Wine Seminars (Sat. 9/5 or Sun, 9/6) - $7 per seminar per person night per person. Wristbands are provided FR EE with a 3-day ticket. VEHICLE PARKING FEE PURCHASE TICKETS Vehicles in the Campgrounds: In order to maximize space for tents, $3 per vehicle per day. Payable at the ticket booth or lot entrance. For your best value on ticket purchases, you should buy on-line we must restrict the number of vehicles we allow in to the campgrounds. *WINE SEMINARS by visiting www.kerrvillefolkfestival.com To do this we charge $20 per day to keep a transportation vehicle in Pre-paid reservations required. The fee for each seminar is $7 per person For phone orders*, call the festival office at (830) 257-3600 the campgrounds (refundable. S20 two-hour unloading permits will be available at the campground entrance so you can drop off gear), (if purchased in advance) or $10 (if purchased during the festival) and during business hours Monday through Friday, includes a souvenir festival wine glass. You must have a festival ticket in *Prices listed include sales tax and most service fees. Phone CHILDREN’S in PRICES order to attend the wine seminar(s). Seminar Tickets may be purchased in orders are subject to a $4 service fee per order* Children under 12 are admitted FR EE when accompanied by ticket advance or you may register at the wine ticket booth during the evening holding (or purchasing) adults. Children 12 and over must have a ticket. shows provided there is still room. Space is limited. Seminars start No refunds or exchanges on tickets for any reason. No one under 18 may be admitted without parent or legal guardian. promptly at 3:30 p.m. (no late seating with or without a ticket). FREEFORM AMERICAN ROOTS #119 RAY CHARLES REAL MUSIC PLAYED FOR REAL PEOPLE BY REAL DJS Modern S ounds In C ountry & W estern Music/ during J une 2009 Modern S ounds In C ountry & W estern Music #1 Dave A lvin & T he Guilty W omen V ol 2 (Yep Roc) *BS/*CS/*00/*RL/*W R (Concord) 2 Todd Snider: The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc) *BJ/*DF/*MB/*TR ast month, I mentioned, anent the advent of Yoakam, Lovett and Earle, my 3 Levon Helm: Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer) *GM/*MDT/*RC/*TG L“hitherto worthless, indeed much mocked, interest in country music,” then, lo 4 Eilen Jewell: Sea Of Tears (Signature Sounds) *DD/*HG/*MM and behold, the primal source of that interest showed up in the mail in the form of Ray Charles’ twin 1962 LPs of country classics packaged as a single CD. I know there 5 Leo Rondeau: Down A t The End O f The Bar (self) *JB/*JT/*RH were country music fans in Britain before Modern Sounds, the amazing Thomas 6 Owen Temple: Dollars And Dimes (El Paisano) *HT/*KD Fraser in the Shetland Islands for one, but, except for American Forces Network, 7 Wayne Hancock: Viper Of Melody (Bloodshot) *LMG/*SH/*TJ country wasn’t on the radio and virtually no country records were released, for the 8 Steve Earle: Townes (New West) *JP/*SC simple reason that they wouldn’t sell—more than 20 years later, MCA’s UK VP told 9= Staid Cleaves: Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away me he couldn’t hardly give away George Strait or Reba McEntire albums (of course, this speaks rather well of my people). Point is, country was so far out of the British (Music Road) *BK mainstream that the. best proof of its existence was its Platonic shadow, the fact that VA: Man Of Somebody's Dreams; A Tribute To Chris Gaffney it was so universally despised. In this context, Modern Sounds was a bombshell, (Yep Roc) *KF not simply a commercial and artistic success for Charles, who placed four tracks in 10= Patterson Hood: Murdering Oscar A Other Love Songs the UK charts, I Can’t Stop Loving You going to#i, but a roadmap to the strange and (Ruth Street) *3RC mysterious country of country. Of course, though Charles started his career in the hillbilly Florida Playboys, apart from the material, neither volume was, in any way, Madison Violet: No Fool For Trying (True North) *CJ/*JR/*SB shape or form, a country album, but I know I wasn’t alone in sitting in front of my 11 Genuine Cowhide: Paint The Ponies (self) *LB/*TM Dansette thinking, ‘My word, this Hank Williams chappie can’t half write a bloody 12= BettySoo: Heat Sin Water Skin (Sweet Papaya) *DT/*XE good song.’ People I’d never heard of, Cindy Walker, Eddy Arnold, Floyd Tillman, Ted Flounders Without Eyes: What's The Rush (Zone) *HA Daffan, Don Gibson, shot to the top of my search list. A pretty fruitless search, I may 13= Rick Shea: Shelter Valley Blues (Tres Pescadores) *WT say, and that roadmap turned out to be rather rudimentary, so it wasn’t until 1968, with the invaluable assistance of the first edition of Bill Malone’sCountry Music Je rry Sires Band: Live A t Jovita's (Caliche Pit) *GS/*RA USA, that I got a real grip on the subject. However, though Modern Sounds got 14= Albert A Gage: Dakota Lullaby (Moon House) *PP me started, and I still have my copy of the first volume, I haven’t actually played it Li'l Mo A The Monicats: On The Moon (Cow Island) in donkey’s years. Somewhere along the line, I developed an acute, well nigh phobic, 15 Son Volt: American Central Dust (Rounder) *JM/*RV distaste for string arrangements and choirs, which, though Charles’ interpretations 16= Elvis Costello: Secret, Profane A Sugarcane (Hear) are still amazing, makes it hard to recapture the thrill of hearing Born To Lose for the first time. These albums are monumentally important, but, like Nashville Leaving, TX: Late Gettin' Started (Lucky Range) *EW Sound/Countrypolitan, I wish there was some way to strip out what I consider to be 17 A rty Hill A The Long Gone Daddys: Back On The Rail the extraneous noise that gets in the way of the music.