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Yoakum
from page 8
* love. It’s probably the biggest indica
tion on the album of Yoakum’s im
provement in songwriting.
“A Promise You Can’t Keep” and
“A Wbrld of Blue” he much in the same
vein but showcase Yoakum’s voice, al
lowing it to come out from behind his
twang a little, sounding for a split sec
ond like Harry Conick Jr.
If any song on the album accurately
represents the album’s title, it would
have to be “A Place to Cry”.
Yoakum’s longtime guitarist Pete
Anderson gets to go a little crazy here,
turning the song into a blend of
country and rock-a-billy.
Yoakum’s rock influences are tru
ly shown in his cover of Cheap Trick’s
“I Want You to Want Me,” a song he
turns into his own.
Contrasting these rock influences,
“The Heartaches Are Free” is more
reminiscent of Hank Williams Sr.
Perhaps the highlight of the album
is three tracks done in collaboration
with country great Buck Owens.
The two singers’ voices mesh so
well that some would think they were
“kin”.
“Tomorrow’s Sounds Today,” while
not completely living up to its name,
is still a country gem-.
The way that the crying steel gui
tars, fiddles and Yoakum’s twangy voice
combine is pure magic, and once
Yoakam’s tendency to-rock is let loose,
watch out — we might have a Ziggy
Farmdust on our hands.
The spotlight desk can be reached at
gamecockspotlight@hotniail.com.
Shaolin Warriors awe audience
• by Kamille Bostick
The Gamecock
The world-renowned Shaolin War
riors brought their remarkable 1,500
year-old skill and spectacular form of
martial arts to the Koger Center for the
Performing Arts Monday night.
The group of 25 performers, both
young and old, displayed a vast profi
ciency in weaponry, agility and strength
that characterizes most forms of martial
arts and defines the Shaolin system of de
fense.
I The Shaolin Warriors date back to
525, when the order of Buddhist monks
first assembled in present-day China. At
their monastery, the monks began a long
process of developing a fighting system
they called “wushu.”
The Shaolin monks patterned their
style from studying the attack and de
fense movements of animals. What re
sulted was a style of fighting that has gar
nered high praise for its level of difficulty,
rigor, effectiveness and beauty.
Monday, the Shaolin Warriors per
formed both hand-to-hand and weapons
combat with a finesse and form filled with
amazing movements and dangerous
weapons.
Performing on stage with backdrops
of their home country’s landscape, the
group demonstrated the talent and
technique that has earned them the title
of warriors.
Members from the audience were in
vited to test the stamina of the monks
throughout the presentation, but the war
riors were well trained and highly adept.
The group demonstrated various tech
niques associated with the Shaolin sys
tem, including those modeled after ani
mals like monkeys and snakes and others
like the “drunken man.”
The audience watched and enjoyed
the show with astonishment as the war
riors, under the pressure of concrete and
the force of a sledgehammer, lay on knives
sharp enough to slice vegetables, sus
pended themselves in the air on spears
and fought each other with and without
weapons.
Many hours of extensive practice
with intense daily training and focus ac
quired through meditation allows the
Shaolin monks to achieve complete men
tal absorption, which is necessary to sus
tain extreme physical discomfort and pain.
In addition, the warriors showcased many
skills that require not only physical
strength but mental strength.
To the audience’s amazement, the
performers were able to balance them
selves on logs while fighting, contort their
extremely flexible bodies, handle dan
gerous weapons and endure blows from
fellow warriors, weapons and other ob
jects.
The monks use more than 20 weapons
and require members to learn to use 18
traditional weapons, such as the sword,
spear, broadsword and cudgel, while al
so becoming a master in one of these.
The Shaolin monks, however, main
tain the Buddhist philosophy of non-vi
olence and non-aggression. Their system
exhibits a form of defense, and they are
seldom provoked to the point of using
their skills.
The presentation of the Shaolin tech- .
nique provided an excellent show of an
ancient tradition that still holds impor
tance and use in today’s world
The Shaolin Warriors are scheduled
to appear throughout North America in
more than 30 cities this year.
The spotlight desk can be reached at
gamecockspotlight@hotmail.com.
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