Thursday, March 8. 1973
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Dixon Performs 'Best of Blues'
By DAVE STRINGER
Kansan Reviewer
Willey Dixon is a big man. Big in size, in talent, and in blues. The premier blues bassist has brought a band of real all-stars from Chicago to play a week-long engagement here at the Red Baron. It's a show you can't afford to miss.
The band itself is so fine you just aren't going to believe them. Dixon is on bass, soling now and then, and singing the slow, mournful blues and you know he has had time to play. It's extra-dramatic, extra-dramatic, Carrey Bell Harrington. He is so good, Dixon says when Carrey Bell is hot there just ain't no one better. And he is not this hot. Carrey Bell just slides allMusic on琴夜 on harp trading songs with Lafayette琴夜 on piano and Buster Benton on guitar.
Lafayette is very stylist on piano, playing cool to Carney Bell's hard harp. Lafayette also does some vocal work and plays his own blues with "Short-Dressed Woman." He gives Carrey Bell a break when he boogies out "My Indian Home" backed by Dixon's bass and the brush work of "Dog Man Jackson" on drums. Jackson is the lead singer for the band. He is so relaxed you think he's falling asleep while leading the band through some really tricky tempo changes. The man that is going to sneak up on you, though, is Buster Benton on guitar. He has got the style, the sound, the feel, the dynamics. Buster in the near future, on Dixon's label.
Blues" and "How Blue Can You Get?" plus Albert King's "Night Stomp," let everybody know just what kind of blues they were in. And to be fair, you're not solo after 29 Ways to Get to My Mody."
Dixon's band played two long tetsa and each was filled with fine bites. A couple of songs were very upbeat.
Each musician was featured soling with Lafayette and Dixon handling the slower, sadder vocals and Carrey Bell and Buster doing the rest.
"Indiana" and "Short-Dressed Woman"
were Lafayette's numbers in the second set
while Buster really played the blues on his
piece of Glocken I Ever Had; I stole It!
Dixon has promised some suprises for the weekend and that may include Buster Benton previewing some material for his future album. This is a show you can't miss if you love the blues. Dixon has written some of the most recorded songs of any
JIM LEE
Kansan Staff Photo by CARL G. DAVAZ JR.
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Willie Dixon and His Band Play and Sing the Blues in Lawrence
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'Long Day's Journey' Opens Here
"By most critics' standards it is considered America's greatest play by America's greatest playwright," said director Ronald Willis, professor of theatre.
Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Long Day's Journey into Night," will open five-day engagement at the Lincoln Kansas 'Theatre in tumurk in Murphy Hall.
The play will be presented at 7:15 tonight,
March 9, 15 and 16. March 11 will be a
play on Thursday.
The four-hour play covers one day in the life of the Tyrone family. It is the day in which O'Neill's personification discovers he and his mother goes back to morphine.
According to Willis, the play is an autobiographical synopsis of O'Neill's attempts to deal with the fact that his mother was a morphine addict, his father was a miser, his brother was a drunkard and he had tuberculosis.
Under this "highly emotion-charged set of circumstances," Williams said, the family was feeling "insecure."
"They try to go back to each other to sort out responsibility, guilt, and draw,
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"They try to confront the ugly realities of their lives. It's a very long day."
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Heard? and "Howdy." You owe it to
them.
Wills will conduct a series of lecture-
discussions concerning the play at 12:30 p.m.
and 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
Beginning the show each night this week is that perennial rock and boogie band from KSAC, which also perform personal changes to the extent that Alm Blasco, on lead guitar, is the only original member. I can't say the changes have been great. But it's still the best band around to boogie to.
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