The Michigan Daily--Friday, January 5, 1979--Page 7 The folk are back. in town By ERIC ZORN On the twelvth day of Christmas, rather than a lecture hall full of peculiar and expensive gifts, your true love might be more than tickled by a pair of tickets to the SecondAnnual Ann Arbor Folk Festival. The Festival, presented by the Office of MAjor Events, features some of the very best folk music recording artists in two shows at the Power Center, Saturday at 2:00 and 7:30 p.m. As long-time headliners and friends of the Ark, all performers are donating their fees to the nationally respected non-profit coffeehouse in order to secure its continued operation. Headlining both shows will be David Bromberg and Norman Blake, and the other performers - Gamble Rogers, U. Utah Phillips, Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard, Bryan Bowers, John Roberts and Tony Barrand, and Norman Kennedy - will appear in one show. TV newsman from Channel 2 in Detroit Ron Sanders, who has featured the Ark in area media presentations; will be the emcee for both performances. DAVID BROMBERG, who used to be David Brom berg RECORDS known only as a guitar virtuoso, has built a solid reputation as a singer and entertainer, treaing audiences to his own brand of folk and rock with a little bit of everything thrown in. More traditional in their approach to folk are Norman and Nancy Blake. The two are especially noted for their beautiful instrumental work on old fiddle tunes, as Norman flat picks with nimble precision on the guitar while his wife strokes a smooth cello line. Last time through Ann Arbor they were joined by Nashville fiddler James Bryan. Mike Seeger, Pete's brother, has been an important influence in traditional and folk music for over twenty years as a collector and performer of southern mountain music. Renditions of the old favorites by of 1 e * 4 l~og J00 S~e # 0f Mike's group, The New Lost City Ramblers, are often considered definitive. This time through Ann Arbor, Alice Gerrard will sing tenor with Seeger, and the duo promise an exciting performance. THE AUTOHARP is not an elementary school instrument in the hands of Bryan Bowers, a tall and scruffy fellow who is a fine songwriter from the west coast, and known as the premiere autoharp player in the world. Fully recovered from a nasty cut in his hand suffered before an Ark concert last fall, Bowers will entertain with the magical selection of instrumentals and vocal numbers which have electrified audiences across the country. The rest of the festival will be just as exciting and diverse, with. no two performers offering the same brand of' traditional and more progressive folk music: U. Utah Phillips, "The Golden Voice of the Great Southwest," sings songs of trains, hoboes, wild women and good times; Norman Kennedy sings and tells stories out of the Scottish tradition while John Roberts and Tony Give 'Em Enough Rope The Clash Epic JE 35543 By MIKE TAYLOR The system built by the sweat of the many Creates assassins to kill off the few . . "Guns on the Roof," The Clash, 1978 The Clash has the good sense to see that revolutions are fought with guns; this potent message rings true throughout their brilliant new album, Give 'Em Enough Rope. In fact, Give 'Em Enough Rope is the best example pf-revolutionary fervor translated into rock 'n' roll since Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town; The Clash's sound is the most vicious I've heard since the Sex Pistols - so brutal that poor Bruce sounds like Jackson Browne in comparison. From the opening drum beats of "Safe European Home," which sounds like gunfire, to the last desperate chords of "All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)," which sound like mournful wails from someone who refuses to surrender, Give 'Em Enough Rope is alive with the sounds of war- fare. Lead guitarist Mick Jones, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer, and bassist Paul Simonon have created, with producer Sandy Pearlman and mixer Corky Stasiak's help, a maelstrom of sound. The vocals have been mixed so low that it's often psible to decipher only snatches of lyrics; words come and go like crossfire. The murky mix is filled with cascading guitars, rivetting solos, and echo effects; it's a brittle, hard-as-nails sound. THE FIRST THREE tracks make Give 'Em -Enough Rope's premise disturbingly clear. "Safe European Home," "English Civil War," and "Tommy Gun" form a sort of holy trilogy, a ferocious statement of purpose. I went to the place Where every white face Is an invitation to robbery Sitting here in my safe European home ... "Safe European Home," like many Clash songs, is reggae transformed into rock 'n' roll. Layers of sound, banks of instruments float in and out of the mix, creating a whirlwind effect. It's the loudest and most dense song on the LP, and it was my first favorite. The words may mean different things to different people, but I see this song as the tale of Barrand accompany their English traditional songs on a variety, of instruments. There will be something for everyone at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival: for lovers of the old traditions and fans of the emerging ones. At least as much as any other kind of performer, the folk musician must have a feel for the history of his music and a sense of where it will go in the future, and the best of them (and we'll have the best on campus January 6) realize that there is equal beauty in what was and what will be. The traditions of the people are alive, and changing, and these are the musicians simultaneously preserving the past and exploring new frontiers. Prof. Carl Berger of the University's School of Education delivered a major address recently on the future of energy at the 1978 Pennsylvania State Science Conference in King of Prussia, Pa., the University announced. Berger also serves as director of the Midwest Trial Center of the Science Ac- tivities for the Visually Impaired Project based at the University of California, Berkeley. someone who refuses to acknowledge the forces of social upheaval around him or her - thus, it could be about any of us. "English Civil War" and "Tommy Gun" draw us deeper into the conflict. "English Civil War" is a rather straightforward rock tune enhanced by an ever-present "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" theme. "Tommy Gun" uses drums as machine guns and guitars as machete; its ominous lyrics go something like this: Tommygun - You ain't happy unlessyvou got one lommy gun - Ain't gonna shoot the place up just for fun Whaterer he wants You're gonna get it ... It's kill or be killed "JULIE'S IN the Drug Squad" comes as a pleasantly upbeat number after all this stuff about war and revolution. This one and "Last Gang in Town" are the most playful tunes on the record; "Last Gang in Town" employs a delightful rhythm pattern, and I love the James Bond guitar solo that comes towards the end. Turn the album over, crank it up, and you'll hear the familiar chords of "I Can't Explain." But very quickly the Who becomes the Clash: Guns, guns .Gunas, gens Guans, guns They torture all the women and children Then they put the men to the gun Gunis, guns They shake themin terror G;uns, guns Killing in error '"'guns Nobody's kidding Oirfooling around Guns, gus This is a place where no judge can stand Gus'guns Guns on the roof ",guns Made to shoot ... "Stay Free" is an engaging tune about two old buddies; one joined the Clash, the other joined the revolution. "All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts," which takes its cue in ter- ms of melody and spirit from David Bowie's "All the Young Dudes," is a magnificently multi-textured song. The lyrics offer little hope: F~ace front You got the future Shining like a piece of gold Butt I swear as we get closer It looks like a lump of coal But it's better than some factory Give 'Em Enough Rope's premise disturbingly clear. 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