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By James Rokosny
Staff Writer
Dressed in a black Quarter
Moon T-shirt, Delbert
McClinton painted blues
over the souls of a few lucky
Columbians Thursday
night at the Quarter Moon.
An article in the
Gamecock last Thursday
quoted Quarter Moon coowner
Rivers Scarborough
as saying, "We want to
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want to show everyone what
a good band sounds like on a
good sound system." And
they accomplished just that.
Breaking from its
t radition of bringing
Columbia high-quality
'coffee house' acts, the
Quarter Moon hosted one of
the greatest bluesmen of all
time. And the crowd loved it,
calling him back for five
encores.
Before attending the show,
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quoted Judson Klinger of
'Playboy' magazine as
saying, "Simply put, McClinton
may be the greatest
white R&B/rock 'n' roller in
the world..." I won't argue.
Running through some
great blues compositions,
Delbert would often stop
between songs and introduce
the next number by saying
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By James Rokosny
Staff Writer
After giving two crowd
pleasing performances last
fall, Dan Tinen will return to
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Tuesday night with his
unique solo act.
Tinen plays piano, synthesizer
and a harpsichord
he built himself, and sings
songs both original and
borrowed. His performance
is not aimed at rowdy rock
V roll crowds, but is geared
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songs like "Just a Little Bit" delivered one of the best countr
and "Under Suspicion," Southeast. About 10,000 rowdy
McClinton left the stage and hats and cowboy boots, responc
let his band have the whoops and hollers, while some
spotlight. With Larry Lang
singing, they tore through a Before the Charlie Daniels B
hot rendition of Ray Charles' Nantucket belted out their hea
"It Should've Been Me." of REO Speedwagon. Althou
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number, "Sweet Baby
Ruth," featuring a mean When the Charlie Daniels Bai
slide-guitar lead, and a broke out into mild hysteria a
version of Malone and instrumental which sounded li
Scott's classic "Turn On proceeded to play one of their
Your Love Light" that would everybody foot-stomping and cl
even make a dead head spin.
; Charlie Daniels gave an impr
McClinton is actually an ability to mix jazz and their cc
old name in the music world, their five-man backup of hoi
His first record was Dirty," a sax solo complimen
recorded in 1%0, when he did 8ave another dimension to their
Sonny Boy Williamson's
"Wake Up Baby," and A haunting backdrop of a ful
twenty years later he has the mood for their current I
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called "The Jealous Kind." reaction.
That's twenty years of
paying his dues singing the After a string of country boc
blues. shifted gears and channeled th<
If he returns, which is very tribute to late rockers with "1
likely, don't miss him. He is gave an emotional performam
the definition of rock 'n' roll, his memories of Elvis, Janis Ji
He is what it is all about - Marshall Tucker Band and 1
living history of the barroom Skynard. To emphasize an er
bluesman's life on the road presented portraits of the late i
and on the stage. j guitar style accented the sadnei
Songs from their current a
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anything the band has ever dc
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toward people with a real After this sequence of low I
appreciation for acoustic broke into a fast pace and beltc
music. "Don't Cha Know I'm Just a I
One of his best originals is fantastic piano solo was execi
"The Lushier," which was never failed to bang out a not(
influenced by his making of captivated crowd,
the harpsichord. He sings.
"Give me time and I will Other cuts from their currenl
make the wood sing, there is in your beer" mood with songs,
voice deep within these "Birmingham Blues."
timbers."
Contemporary Sounds To add fuel to the fire, Charlie
Committee of the University almost beyond control when he
Union is sponsoring the out "The Devil Went Down to
event in the Golden Spur. between Daniels and Tom Crt
as Sil
By Carl Babcock
Staff Writer
To signal the beginning of
"Silkwood," a series of
slides projected onto a
screen on sidestage depicts
the life of Karen Silkwood.
As she matures in pictures
from a child in Texas to an
adult, a slow and melancholy
After a few minutes,
Jehanne Dyllan walks on
stage ? and the play explodes.
Not an anti-nuclear
diatribe, not rabidly feminist
and certainly not stridently
pro-union, it mixes all of
these elements to form a
part, and only a part, of the
woman that was Karen
Silkwood.
That is what the play is
auuui ? an ordinary worker
who desperately needs a job
begins to look around and
see what has happened to
her, to her friends because of
that job, and how she
decided to do something
about it.
The play is a powerhouse
of emotions because of that
basic humanity. Karen
Silkwood grows and embraces
certain issues, but
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anything less than a human
excites
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imbia found themselves in hog
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y rock performances to hit the
fans, some wearing ten gallon
led to the Tennessee band with
> waved rebel flags.
land made its grand entrance,
vy-metal style, characteristic
igh their music was a harsh
antucket managed to perk up
lercial hit, "Heartbreaker."
nd finally appeared, the crowd
s the band opened up with an
ike an old ZZ Top tune. They
older hits, "Trudy," that sent
lapping.
essive demonstration 01 meir
juntry twang with the help of
*ns. In the song, "Down n'
ted the blues number, which
country rock style.
II moon in a forest setting set
hit, "The Legend of Woody
song received a raving crowd
gie tunes, the Memphis band
3ir energies into a sentimental
Reflections." Charlie Daniels
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notional impact, a backdrop
irtists. Tom Crain's mandolin
ss of the song.
lbum, "Summer Eve," were
the first time. The "South Sea
ove ballad which is unlike
>ne. It didn't seem to impress
s style just did not quite fit
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d out some country blues with
,onesome Boy from Dixie." A
Lited by Taz DiGregorio, who
? without an ovation from the
t album added to this "crying
"No potion for the Pain" and
; Daniels excited the audience
picked up his fiddle to punch i
Georgia." This fiddlin' duel <
tin will defeinitely become a
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being, or that the play isn't ?
first and foremost the tragic I
story of her life. ?
For that, Jehane Dyllan
as author and actress is to be
praised. She is superb. She <
controls the audience from <
the moment she takes the 1
stage and never lets go. With 1
a grace and ease that is a joy <
to watch, she shows us the I
'Karen Si/kwoocf
braces certain issL
there a hint she is at
human hnirtn '
Karen that was to become a
working class heroine, and
she shows us the Karen that
was a vulnerable woman, a
bitch, a union organizer, a
mother... The one-woman
play never lags. The versatile
Ms. Dyllan accomplishes
the numerous
shifts of mood with a
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and 9:30 p.m. "Night Of The L
with shows at 2:30, 7 and 9:30
will play Oct. 30 at 2:30, 7 an(
Nov. 1 at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
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country classic.
For their grand finale, spiriti
Glory filled the background for
One thing that Charlie knows ho
audience and hold them for as 1
know exactly what good ol' cour
During the first encore, a gr
the Grand Ole Opry joined the
"urange blossom Special." Al
Daniels terminated the concert
Do It Again." Of course this :
southern boys and Dixie darlir
concert feeling as if Charlie ha:
rock.
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Charlie Daniels thrilled his
Ws band's biggest hits Sat
Chip Lowell)
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splendid sense of timing and
ler transitions arc as
smooth as glass.
But "Silkwood" is still an
extremely political play. She
Aras a real woman who did
Aork for the Kerr-McGee
luclear power company in
Jklahoma. She was irate at
:he lack of health care at the
grows and em
tes, but never is
ly thing /ess than a
power plant, and eventually
had to steal documents
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were being shipped out to
other nuclear facilities.
Karen Silkwood was killed in
a car crash on her way to
deliver those documents to a
New York Times reporter.
The documents disappeared
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living Dead" begins Oct. 29
p.m. "Dawn Of The Dead"
J 9:45 p.m. and Oct. 31 and
w boys
; were again raised when Ole
"God Bless America Again."
w to do well is grab the
ong as he wants. He seems to
itry boys want to hear.
oup of cloggers^tn ^ht from
nana tor me country classic
ter this fiddle duel, Charlie
with "The South s (Join' To
struck a soft spot tor many
fs who went away from the
s already done it for country
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