a a 4 9 I& T- ' w Page Four THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, August 11, 1970 Tuesday, August 11,-1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Dial 662-6264 B L U E S F E S T I V A L FUTURE UNPREDICTABLE: Krasny discusses university deaths Corner State & Liberty Sts.A ENDS WEDNESDAY! (Continued from Page 1) sity will further aid this co- operation. "I have a great deal of respect for Col. Davids," Krasny says. "He should be an asset to the University community in work- ing out the problems which de- velop. "He's iot a guy with a short fuse, and I'm sure he'll exercise WORKING MOTHERS AND STUDENTS if enough response is. shown a morning class for children 3-5 will op- erate this fall. IF INTERESTED call Perry Nursery School--662-5591 Kellys Heroes Teyhada message for theArny: Up thebrss!" OPEN 12 45 Shows At 1:15-3:45-6:15-8:45 good judgment. He'll help us in that I'll have confidence in the man, since Te's a trained police officer. This means he'll have. different evaluations from the lay person," Krasny adds. So far this summer, Ann Ar- bor has been relatively calm, in marked contrast to last sum- mer's violent disturbances on S. University. But Krasny is not Smaking any predictions for the fall. "The key to the issue is the following that the so-called rad- ical groups.might get," he says. "Support for them was ebbing by March last year. "The normal thing that's been developing over time we can probably control, but a spon- taneous outbreak, combined with the rumor mill, is the biggest danger we face." Krasny says the University administration' has helped keep things cool by maintaining a pipeline to various s t u d e n t groups on campus and allowing the students to occasionally win their demands. Governo event I LAKE OF THE OZARKS, (A') --The nation's gover voted yesterday to go to e against the federal governs to prevent highway construe cutbacks. Earlier they tracked a proposal fough highway interests to ix limited use of federal funds for other types of ti portation. The vote on the court te highway cutbacks came at opening business session of 62nd National Governors . ference. The measure introduced Gov. Harold Levander of nesota, authorizes the cos ence's executive committe undertake court action agi the legality of the federal ecutive branch's decision withhold part of the high trust fund from the state an anti-inflation move. Some $300 million of the billion earmarked for sper this fiscal year has been v held by the Nixon admini tion, and a total of about billion now is backed up dt various mandatory and vc tary cutbacks dating to Johnson administration. Earlier, the conference v 23-to-12 to send back to c mittee the controversial posal for a more flexible u, Ed. 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And there were the Blues freaks, not as many as last year, and evidently not nearly enough to cover the festival ex- penses, but if the crowd were measured by their knowledge of and respect for the blues instead of by simple numbers, then it too would have to be considered out- standing. 'T IS INEVITABLE that this year's festival be compared to last year's and given that the first Ann Arbor Blues Fes- tival was very nearly perfect, it is just as inevitable that anything measured against it will- suffer somewhat. B. B. King, Muddy Waters, J. B. Hutto and James Cotton were missed by those of us who saw them last summer. But added to the bill this year were John Lee Hooker, Bobby Bland, Lowell Fulson, Albert King and several others. The festival was kicked off Friday night by Roosevelt Sykes, an artist who has be- come a local favorite since his appearance last summer. It now would seem inappro- priate to begin a blues program any other way. But, John Lee's set had to be the one that highlighted the evening. He has a fantastic blues voice-very low, smooth and serious. Added to that voice is a style of alternately singing and narrating that, so far as I know, isn't even imitated by anyone else. I could have listened to him for hours. ONE OF THE very real problems of the * festival was that there was too much talent to be presented in the time allowed. First let me say that if there is any good reason why the City of Ann Arbor should attach a 12 midnight curfew on.the fes- tival, I haven't heard it. But if indeed the festival must be oper- ated within the unreasonable and ob- structionist constraints of time imposed by the city, then the organizers should limit the number of performers instead of asking each performer to limit himself to an insultingly short thirty-minute set. One of the victims of the time squeeze was the final performer of Friday eve- ning, the great Howlin' Wolf. There are many unkind things that could be said about Wolf. For one thing he intentionally projects an image of the rowdy, drunken Negro that has become so repulsive to black people. But as a musician Howlin' Wolf is one of the immortals. This year's set was not quite as exciting as was last year's when he rode on stage on a mini- bike and stayed on for an hour and a half, but it was' still great to see and hear him again. EARLY SATURDAY afternoon brought a fine progression of traditional and country blues. Lazy Bill Lucas played a fine set, the highlight of which was prob- ably his "Kansas City." He was followed by Houndog Taylor who played some of the best slide guitar of the weekend. It was a very effective set due largely to his selection of material, some of which was unfamiliar, all of which was infectious. The afternoon concert was brought to a close by the highly touted and very popular Albert King. He delivered what I thought to be a very disappointing set. 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