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Sal's Birdland:
Morissette's
mentors.
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T
he members of Sal's Birdland would like to win fans with their
tuneful, energetic pop — a sound that recalls late '70s/early '80s
new-wave bands such as Blondie and Missing Persons.
But the Canadian quintet is largely responsible for a heck
of a success — rock sensation Alanis Morissette.
"I met her when she was 12," says singer Louise Reny, a.k.a. Sal. "My
advice to her was to stay out of the music business. Good one, eh?"
Morissette approached Reny and Sal's guitarist Leslie Howe to let her
record in their studio in Ottawa. They ended up mentoring her, and Howe
co-wrote, produced and released Morissette's first two albums.
"I learned a lot of things," Morissette remembers. "Working with them
made me realize music was something I could take very seriously."
Reny says she's nothing but thrilled for Morissette's success: "If ever I met
anybody who deserves to be a star, it's her. She's worked really hard." But
at the same time, Reny acknowledges some envy. "I wouldn't be human if
there wasn't any," she says. "I wish it was me, also."
She and the rest of the Birdland, named after a chicken shop in Rochester,
N.Y., are certainly trying. With a new album out, Nude Photos Inside, the
group has been touring the United States, trying to crack the country that's
gone ga-ga over their former protege.
You can catch them, along with Hank, 19 Wheels and Restroom Poets,
Saturday, Dec. 16, at the Magic Bag, Woodward just north of Nine Mile
Road, Ferndale. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $51 Call (810) 544-3030
anytime. CI
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Winter Degree Show.
Through Dec. 17. Cranbrook Art
,Museum, 1221 North Woodward
Avenue, Bloomfield Hills. (810)
645-3312.
Chimera: Lynda Benglis.
Through Jan. 14, 1996. Cran-
brook Art Museum. (810) 645-
3312.
Philip Lifton, oil paintings.
Through Dec. 31. The Downtown
Farmington Library.
Industrial Revelations:
Photographs by Michael
Kenna of the Rouge and Oth-
er Sites. Through Feb. 11. The
Detroit Institute of Arts. (313)
833-7900.
Vitiligo: Paintings and
Monoprints by John Sindelar.
Through Dec. 22. The Paint
Creek Center For the Arts, 407
Pine Street, Rochester. (810) 651-
4110.
Unpainted to the Last:
Moby Dick and American
Art. Illustrations, paintings and
sculptures of Melville's whale.
Through Dec. 24. The Univer-
sity of Michigan Museum of Art.
(313)'764-0395.
Art To Wear: A Group Jew-
elry Exhibition. Through Jan.
20. Habatat/Shaw Gallery, 7
North Saginaw, Pontiac. (810)
333-1070.
Clockwork: American
Time and Timepieces. The
Henry Ford Museum and Green-
field Village, Dearborn. (313)
271-1976.
Aishet Hayil: A Woman of
Valor and Inherited Memory:
A Contemporary Artist Con-
fronts the Holocaust. Through
Dec. 28. Both exhibits at the Jan-
ice Charach Epstein Muse-
um/Gallery. Maple-Drake Jew-
ish Community Center. (810)
661-7641.
Walter Crane exhibit.
Through Jan. 31. The Detroit
Public Library. (313) 833-1476.
Detroit Artists Market.
Joseph Campau, Detroit. (313)
393-1770.
Made in America: Ten Cen-
turies of American Art. Works
of art spanning 1,000 years of
America's visual history, through
Jan. 7. Toledo Museum of Art.
(800) 766-6048.
Collage by Susan Roth.
Through Jan. 13. The Elizabeth
Stone Gallery, 536 North Wood-
ward Avenue, Birmingham.
(810) 647-7040.
Weaving Out Loud: Sandra
Brownlee. Forty woven works
by Cranbrook Academy of Art
graduate, through Dec. 30.
Young Curators Choose
Chairs: A Museum/Commu-
nity Collaboration, through
March 24, 1996. Cranbrook Art
Museum. (810) 645-3314.
Painting With Fire: Pe-
wabic Vessels in the Mar-
garet Watson Parker
Collection. Pottery, paintings
and lithographs, through Jan. 7.
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