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The Blue Dogs' tour stops in Columbia
by Brock Vergakis
News Editor
The Charleston-based band The Blue Dogs is ready toJireak inti
the big time with its latest release, Letters From Round 0.
The contemporary roots-rock band is on a grueling tour promot
ing its album, and playing Saturday night at Pavlov’s after the Caroli
na-Clemson football game.
Greg Walker, drummer and percussionist for the band, said th
band has received a lot of success with the new album.
“In our first week, we were in the lop 20 in CD sales. We’ve al
so gotten a lot of national radio air play,” Walker said.
The group’s first release, Isabelle, has been added to the play lis
of 19 different radio stations, and the list is growing.
With a traditional stronghold in the Carolinas and Virginia, Thi
Blue Dogs are also getting a lot of support from other markets, as well
“We killed up in New York and in D.C,” Walker said.
“We also travel out west to places like Colorado, too,” he said
Traveling is something the band does a lot of. The Blue Dogs havi
played more than 800 shows at more than 200 different venues na
tionwide. The band might also be playing in Europe next spring ti
kick off a party that will celebrate the first direct flight from German;
to Charlotte.
The only thing lead guitarist David Stewart thinks can hold th<
Blue Dogs back at this point is their van.
“We’re ready for it [success]. We want to take it to the next lev
el. We’re working hard as a band, and if we keep writing and the en
ergy is happening, we’ll succeed,” Stewart said.
“We find ourselves having fun as soon as we get to our show, /
lot of people get what we’re trying to do with our music.”
Their ability to play to the crowd has been part of the reasoi
they’ve attracted such a loyal following. Jennifer Hawkins drove t<
Columbia from UNC-Wilmington to watch the band play.
“I can’t help it. I love them. They
have such great eneigy. They’re one of
the best bands in the country, and some
1 of the nicest guys. This is the fifth show
I’ve been too, and each one is differ
ent, and each one keeps getting better,”
Hawkins said.
Stewart said they aren’t the type of
; band that will deny a reqtiest from fans
or ignore them.
“We’re nptgoing to look down and
avoid eye contact with people who have
1 requests. We’ll do our show in the di
rection we want logo in, but we’ll make
: them happy,” he said. “We like to keep
• it interesting. We might do the same
songs five nights in a row, but they won’t
■ be exactly the same.”
Songs off Letters From Round 0
dominate the majority of their shows,
1 but the band does play crowd favorites
such as “Walter” from their other al
bums.
“We definitely play a lot of new
tunes, but it’s always going to be a great
est hits night,” Walker said.
i lie Diue uogs nope more 01 meir
new songs will become crowd favorites, and they enlisted the help
‘ of David Lowery to do that. Lowery recently produced the Counting
Crows album, This Desert Life. The result is an 11-track album that
1 fans can’t get enough of. Erica Southern bought Letters From Round
* 0 two weeks ago, and she hasn ’t stopped playing it since.
“This is the best [album] yet. I can’t wait for these guys to make
it, and [I can] say I saw them way back when. My roommate hates me
because I play their CD non-stop, but I don’t care,” she said. “My
favorite part is the lyrics. Ever since I read them, 1 can’t get them
out of my head, and I don’t want to.”
Special to The Gamecock
The Blue Dogs playing during their Northeastern Tour of 1998.
Mormon Church flourishes in South
by Amy Frazier
Associated Press
Atiawia—When Chloe Belle Hodge was baptized
in 1939, most of the Mormons around Raleigh, N.C.,
were members of her family.
It wasn’t rare for some Southern Mormons to
go half their lives without setting foot in a temple.
“1 couldn’t even dream of a time when we would
have a church building,” said Hodge, 83.
But she’ll soon be able to visit a temple when
ever she wants, as Raleigh is one of seven Southern
cities scheduled to complete temples by the end of
2000.
“The blessing to have a temple right here at our
elbows is almost beyond comprehension,” Hodge
said. “I plan logo once a week.”
It’s a drastic change in less than two decades for
Southern Mormons. Until 1983, when a temple was
built in suburban Atlanta, Southern members of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had to
travel to Washington, D.C., or out West to have their
marriages officially sealed by the church.
The church is now working to increase temples
in areas with growing membership.
Many Southern states have seen their Mor
mon population grow by 80 to 100 percent since
1980.
The growth is primarily to because of an in
flux of Mormons from other regions and because of
the church’s efforts to increase its visibility in the
South, said Nancy Eiesland, a professor at Emory
University’s Candler School of Theology.
Conversions and in-migration are related be
cause as Mormons move to the area, they work to
bring in converts.
The church, based on revelations that Joseph
Smith said were brought to liim in the 1820s by heav
enly messengers, has more than 10 million mem
bers worldwide and 52 operating temples.
Another 46 are under construction or in the
planning stages.
Temples for the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter-day Saints differ from the chapels used for reg
ular weekly worship. Certain basic ceremonies, in
cluding eternal marriage and proxy baptisms for dead
ancestors, can only be performed in the more sacred
temple buildings.
For yean, Southerners who wanted to receive
such ordinances had to travel across the country. It
wasn’t until 1974, with the completion of the Wash
ington, D.C., temple, that one existed east of the
Mississippi River.
Until the Oct. 16 dedication of the Columbia,
S.C., temple, the only other Southern temples were
in Atlanta and Orlando, Fla. Ground has recently
been broken on temples in Nashville and Memphis,
Tenn., Birmingham, Ala., Baton Rouge, La., Louisville,
Ky. and Raleigh, N.C.
As a young woman growing up in North Car
olina during the 1940s, Mrs. Hodge didn’t know
whether she’d ever receive the sacred ordinances.
“We were coming out of the Depression
years. A trip to Utah was not to be thought of,” she
said. In 1944, she hitched a ride with a woman trav
eling to a U.S. Army post in Utah so she could go to
fpmnlp
It wasn’t until 1967 that before Dexter R No
ble, 74, of Atlanta, had saved up enough money to
fly his family to Salt Lake City, Utah to visit a
temple.
“I closed my shoe store for a week to go. That’s
how important it was to me,” he said.
Elder Monte J. Brough, the church’s regional
president for most of the South, said he expects
the church to continue growing in the region.
The South has long carried a reputation for strict,
family-oriented conservatism, which the Mormon
church shares.
“I think the reason we do so well is that we
are very assertive in proclaiming family values,” he
said. The church is concerned with “not only fam
ily conduct and individual values, but the law of
chastity and the sacred nature of marriage.... Part
of that is very attractive to a lot of Southerners.”
Although some traditional Bible Belt religions
have spoken out against Mormons—Southern Bap
tists used a 1998 annual convention in Salt Lake City
to evangelize to Mormons, whom they do not con
sider to be Christians — their perception as hard
working, moral citizens has likely helped their es
tablishment in the region, Eesland said.
“In some ways, the family orientation of Mor
mons makes them congenial to much of the
Southern sunbelt,” she said.
However, those congenial feelings might not ap
ply to interchurch relations, especially since Mor
mons and some evangelical denominations in the
South are competing for converts.
Both groups “draw from the same group of peo
ple in terms of conversion — basically, the
unchurched,” said Marie Cornwall, Brigham Young
University sociology professor.
“Put together the incredible growth in the South
with the increasing anti-Mormonism rhetoric that
comes out of the evangelical movement, and in the
market place of religion, these two groups are in
competition,” she said.
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Because of competition, the “strange alliance”
between Mormons and Protestants will break down
eventually, said Chris Graham, pastor of Church
of the Savior Baptist Church in Roswell, New Mex
ico.
“Orthodox Christianity has some specific doc
trines that are important, and Mormon also has spe
cific doctrines that are important to its story. And 1
think they are potentially conflictual,” he said.
Brough recognizes that some Southerners still
hold negative feelings toward the church, but he said
he thinks Mormonism is becoming more accepted
in what was once a hostile environment.
In 1884, a mob fatally shot four members dur
ing church services in Lewis County, Tenn.
u was a nara place 10 oe in arouna me uvu
War,’’Brough said.
Orlando Henderson, 43, of Atlanta, left his Bap
tist upbringing in 1994 to join the Mormon church.
It’s hard for Southerners to leave their family’s church,
he said.
“Most everybody followed their family with
religion,” he said. “Now, there’s a broader base of
knowledge with different truths.”
With the addition of more Southern temples,
the church hopes to spread its beliefs far beyond
Utah, Eeslandsaid.
“They do not want to be seen as a regional re
ligion,’’she said. “They want lobe seen first as a na
tional religion, and then as a global religion.”
‘I think the reason we do so
well is that we are very
assertive in proclaiming fami
ly values. Not only family
conduct and individual val
ues, but the law of chastity
and the sacred nature of mar
riage ... Part of that is very
attractive to a lot of
Southerners." ’
Elder Monte J. Brough
Mormon church's regional
president
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