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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Tuesday, September 21, 1971
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How to spend summer vacation
or new sounds from the oldies
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By FARGO
How I spent my summer va-
cation. One segment of it at
home in Motown. Lying on bed
reading god knows what book
to keep up with it. Put those
sides on, no way to delay new
records everyday. And suddenly
finding myself hearing. Acous-
tic guitar simple hearty strum-
ming. Good ole Country Joe
singing with a warm voice you
believe talking about picking
up a hitchhiker who suspicious-
ly resembles Jesus yet there is
no flashback to Jesus freaks on
the Diag trying to help you in
the manner all your educators
and counselors and parents did.
No, it's essentially a song about
growing up all over again by
meeting a here and now person.
Hold On It's Coming (Van-
'guard VSD 79314) is Country
J o e Mc Donald occasionally
backed up by Spencer Davis,
Chicken Hirsh, others. Is just
about the most satisfying album
you can run out and get for
non-jangled moods. "Air Al-
giers" is about the plinght and
flight of Eldridge Cleaver:
Hopped on a plane, Oakland-
New York/Oakland-New York,
New York to Marseilles
When the man hollers now,
sure got to jump bail/
First a fair trial and then
they'll put you back in jail
When Joe sings "Only Love is
Worth This Pain" it.comes as
feeling and not platitude. "Tra-
veling" is an elegiacal love song
from the future: "I lost my ba-
by in outer space, she's up there
past the moon / searching the
heavens for her face, hope I
find her soon."
"Mr. Big Pig" is a bit facile
in concept, about how surfaces
make not the person, but nev-
ertheless so well done it is like
hearing it all anew: "You don't
have to be a man to be the
man." Joe's rock is country by
virtue of the brisk simplicity
permeating the wide range of
bitter to sweet emotion. He is
a lyrical artist who conceals
his artistry.
If you are bummed out by
the ultra-commercial super ses-
sion albums, when you glimpse
the pretty cover of The London
Howlin' Wolf Sessions (Chess
CH-60008) which mentions sit-
ters-in Eric Clapton, Steve Win-
wood, Bill Wyman, and Charlie
Watts, you might decide to pass
it by. I don't know what to sug-
gest. Of course Wolf, alias Ches-
ter Burnett, is great; of course
the accompaniment is all-star
and surprisingly not overdone.
Okay, so it's a fragging good
album, but if a choice were ne-
cessary, I'd get the Howling
Wolf (Chess 1512) from the
Chess More Real Folk Blues ser-
ies first. There the side-men
(uncredited) are just a touch
sloppy and bunches more funky.
And the Wolf, though there is
plenty power in his quieter per-
formance on the latest LP, has
more bite, sounds a bit like
Moms Mabley unchained.
The production of the elder
albums puts you in a smoke-
hazed 3 A.M. bar, the latter be-
tween Hill Auditorium and a
recording studio-too smooth-
though there's a picture of
Wolf on the inside cover not to
be missed and lyrics of the
faultless selection of songs, most
either by Willie Dixon: "Wang-
Dang-Doodle," "I Ain't Supersti-
tious," or Wolf: "Sittin' On Top
of the World," "Rockin' Daddy."
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Chuang Che: Study
of oriental abstract
THE ALLEY CINEMA
330 Maynard
TONIGHT ONLY - TUES., SEPT. 21
THROUGH' A GLASS DARKLY
Directed by INGMAR BERGMAN, 1961.
Chronicles the pathetic plunge of
a young woman into madness.
SHOWS at 7and 9:30.
$1.00
COMING WED-Godard's Bande A Port
sponsored by ann arbor film cooperative
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By LARRY ADELSON
Through the end of the
-month. Forsythe Gallery (201
Nickels Arcade) is showing new
paintings by the Tiawanese
painter Chuang Che. Che is a
competent performer in a gen-
re which is perhaps best term-
- ed 'oriental abstract'; a style
which would appear to be a
synthesis of Abstract-Express-
ionism and Chinese technique.
He combines calligraphic brush-
work and rice-paper collage in
generally geographic composi-
tions in black and white with
occasional, subdued, color. He
has a wonderful sense for well-
wrought forms and his paint-
ings are filled with small mo-
ments which are as nice as the
overall picture.
Despite this richness, the
paintings lack a real power.
Che's paintings are appealing
abstractions, nothing more, but
nothing less. They are so easy
to enjoy, and they are enjoyable.
One may feel guilty about de-
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serting the rigorous demands for
genius in art to relax a bit be-
fore Ches work, but it is a
useful reminder that art x'hich
is not going to speak new and
enduring truths (or whatever it
is that great art does in fact
do) to us need still not confront
us with pedantic obscurities
and polemic inanities as so
much of it insists upon doing
these days.
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Tuesday only
BIG SKY
Directed by H o w a r d
Hawks, 1952. KIRK
DOUGLAS stars in w'est-
ern wherein mountain-
eers and Frenchies float
a raft up the Mississippi
to trade an Indian prin-
cess for furs.
Shown in connection with
the American Studies Dept.
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the ann arbor film cooperative
was formed in the summer of 1970 with the purpose of encouraging and supporting film-making in Ann
Arbor. Fifteen people (students et al) interested in film came together as the first board of the Coop. Dur-
ing the first year of our existence, we showed films Tuesday and Thursday nights in Auditorium A, Angell
Hall to raise money to fund our other projects. One such project was a film class for anyone interested in
learning how to make a 16 mm sound film. This class served as a pilot for future courses in film produc-
tion and aesthetics, which eventually will result in a film school with a fairly extensive curriculum, faculty
and facilities. Courses in production and aesthetics are being planned for the academic year 1971-72.
Another Coop project is the editing room for use by the Ann Arbor community. We have so far purchased
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