Emmvlou fires up the Hot Band
By TIM BRADLEY
Reviewer
It's no wonder Emmyloa Harris calls her ensemble the Hot Band, because this group was smoking last night. Harris bounced into a band called *Saltwater*, a group through a sizzling set that roused the
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rabble of whoopers and whistlers to two curtain calls.
A veritable vinyl veteran after years of second-voicing for Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan and others, Emmyou is now touring and recording on her own. Her three solo albums—one for the Reprise label—are recently for the Reprise label—are tasty little devils, but palate in comparison to her live performance.
Because she is able to strike a subtle balance between vulnerability and assertion and because of the emotional veracity she brings to her songs, Harris could make a corpse tingle with the excitement of secrets revealed and experiences shared.
The Hot Band lived up to its name in accompanying Emmylou through material by Gram Parsons, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and sheen Shel Silverstein. So
Union sale of 3.2 beer going strong
Between November 1, 1975, and March 31, 1976, beer sales have totaled $15,000. Warner Ferguson, Union associate director, said yesterday.
The sale of cereal malt beverages in the Kansas Union has been a self-supporting addition to Union services.
Because union beer sales have been authorized only since November, there are still details in the operation to be worked out. The suits haven't been large, Ferguson said.
A large part of the income from beer sales has been spent for equipment necessary for serving beer and experimental food service programs, he said.
The sale of beer in Union food service facilities required personnel training and experimentation to determine the most suitable beer for the business and dispensing the beer, Ferguson said.
Beer is sold in the Prairie Room, the cafeteria, the delicatessen and the Hawk's Nest, and is served at private parties catered by the Union.
Ferguson said he expected increased efficiency and interior remodeling of the Union to promote even greater beer sales in the Union next fall.
excursions by Glen D. Hardin at the piano and Hank deVito on pedal steel and dobro brought the music to a boil without just blowing off steam.
Murphey was the headliner only by virtue of his somewhat dubious hit singles.
There was nothing in his set that deserved the title "headline."
It's too bad that Emmyloy Harris and the Hot Band couldn't play all night. The concert and concomitant high spirits slowly melted in their museless menageries of Michael Murhevb.
First, the sound was obviously filtered through a quart of yogurt before it was disseminated to the audience. The terrible smell of milk was clearly visible have driven a feedback fetish to exalt.
Murphy seems like your basic blow-dry, hippi-bite nice guy, but his music is just so much homogenized glo. The lyrics are either maudlin or melancholy, and the arrangements are leaden reums of every four fingerpicker cliche. The singer went on to write a song with "sensitive raps" about what a drag it was to be an Indian or a buffalo.
During an ovation that was more standard than standing, there were scattered chants of "Bring back Emmylou." They had the right idea.
was going on and didn't appear to care all that much anyway. Murphy didn't make them look any better by stopping them to correct a tempo on one song and silencing the bass and gesturing wildly to quiet the others for a bonus singalong.
The band didn't quite seem to know what
Dancers gear for concert
The 52nd annual spring dance concert by the Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre.
The club's 40 members will present a variety of dance styles, Diana Damro, faculty adviser to Tau Sigma and director of the program, said yesterday.
Darno said the purpose of the event was to train anyone interested in dance or performance.
These styles include modern dance, ballet, court ballet, and tap dance.
Anyone in the University can join the group and participate in the program, she
Elizabeth Sherbon, retired dance instructor at the University and past director of the concerts, said the program had changed since it started in 1924.
"The first year there were only 15 people in the audience," she said. "For the first four or five years we rented the junior high school's stage."
Sheron retired last year after teaching at KU for 15 years.
Damro said ticket sales usually weren't very high because the program was geared to KU students, who are admitted free with ID.
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Now that your first pair of GET THERE'S are just about shot from all the wear they've given you. Look at your next pair. A second year of waves: by Famolare
University Daily Kansan
Library improvements and equipment purchases will be the top priority of budget items for fiscal 1978, KU administrators decided last week.
Priorities set for KU budget in fiscal 1978
Determining priorities is the first step in preparing budget suggestions to be submitted to the Kansas Board of Regents. Actions taken by the administrators must be approved by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor
The Library and equipment priorities are part of the instructional category.
Jones said most of the programs to which additional state funding was requested began with federal funding that has since been withdrawn.
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