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Show "Where Team Flowerchildren Han s Out" {{;Jf©O&@ 0&1 O&J @ u!! a Fat Chance • Mountain Goat Ibis • Marin • Bianchi {{;Jf©O&@ fl©fl fPJ&Jw&fJiJiJ&fJiJ a Eisentraut Framesets • Bianchi Repaitrs "If we're not fixing one, we're probably out crashing our own" ({;O©a!J'iJUfJiJ~ &J[Jj]@ f?©©afYAYl&&Jfl~ Vigorelli, Bellwether, Nike Specialized, Oakley fPf;l!lU~ ~©©®~~®rr~®~ ~<QJwn©® 702 Third Avenue SLC, UT 84103 A Two Minute Drive from the Great Basin Financial District 533-8671 The Intermountain. Acoustic Musician Magazine is always on the lookout for articles of general interest. If you have information which others may find interesting, type it up and send it in. Our Readers especially enjoy "how to" articles aimed at the Beginner and Intermediate level musician. Here are some suggestions for articles. Flat Picking Guitar Tin Whistle Old-Time Guitar Backup Person ali ties Concertina Playing Bluegrass Fiddling Bodran Playing Hammer Dulcimer Cowboy Songs Oldtime Songs Bluegrass Songs Irish Songs Old Time Fiddling Upright Bass Clawhammer Banjo Frailing Banjo and any other article of general interest to the acoustic music community. 12 111 Smokey's Corner ~I Moving into the last month of winter, it seems that just as the economy has gone flat, so has music news. One thing I'd like to see more light shed on is the fact that several trade magazines (Musician and Frets) have reported a fairly disconcerting development which could affect us all, and the quality of the music we're hearing-not to mention the quality of the lives we are living! The U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is challenging the H-1 Visa application of John Renbourn, a noted British fingerstyle guitarist, (H-1 Visas being for temporary work permits for foreign musicians) who is preparing an upcoming ~.S. t<?ur. Now, I'm not going to go very deeply 1nto th1s nasty can of worms, although I do intend on writing to Orrin and Jake in Washington about the matter. Back in 1986, the INS proposed tighter regulations for ·this sort of visa, and the word filtered out that this would affect artists whose stature was not "great" enough. The implications for younger, developing, lesser known artists were definitely scary; but the issue lay dormant until the recent press about Renboum's visa application. Currently, his U.S. manager, Mitch Greenhill, is assembling documentation to support John's application. The whole thing is more startling, considering that he has frequently toured here in the past and never had a problem before in obtaining a visa. Anyhow, check out the March issue of Frets magazine for details and write your congressman! And now, back to the music. Probably the premiere release this month is Nanci Griffiths' LP/CD entitled "Little Love Mfairs" and the title is appropriate with the overriding theme being love songs. The LP doesn't come right out and grab you at first like some of her earlier releases, but if you've had the pleasure of seeing N anci Griffith in person, you'll know that she's got a side to her that's literally made for this stuff. It's a beautiful album, with a lot of heavyweight assistance; 3/4 of Newgrass Revival are there, (Sam, Bela, and Pat) plus Mark O'Connor, John Jarvis, as well as her own Blue Moon Orchestra. Afso, Mac McAnnally sings a fine, fine duet with her on "Gulf Coast Highway" as does John Stewart on a Stewart penned song, "Sweet Dreams Will Come." It is vintage N anci Griffith in the tradition of her other releases-worth your ears hearing! And now, here's the latest from the record companies-new releases on LP and Compact Disc. |
