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The $2 Shoe Revival is, from left, Charlie Rose, Leawood junior, guitar and banjo; Adam Galblum, Prairie Village senior, fiddle; Cody Walters, Onago senior, bass; Aaron Redner, Lawrence resident, mandolin and fiddle; and Scott Alvaro, Santiago, Chile, senior, percussion and flute. The group will be performing tonight at the Jazzhaus. Not pictured: Clamp Erlinger and B.J.
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By Brad Weiner Jayplay writer
Each Thursday night the Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St., boasts a "Crappy Beer Night," where cans of flavorless domestic lager are pawned off for a buck a pop. It seems as though no one in his rightly sober mind would attend such an event unless the music compensated for the inexpensive barley, hops, yeast and water. Fortunately for bluegrass fans, the soundtrack tonight will be provided by Lawrence locals, $2 Shoes Revival Story.
Bluegrass is everywhere. Banjos and mandolins are flying off the shelves while electric guitars collect dust. $2 Shoes has capitalized on the possibility of brewing up a wildly fun repertoire of old-time standards without compromising the basic, rootsy feel of the music.
The most obvious observation about the band is how young the members appear.
"People like us because we're young and we have fun," said Charlie Rose, banjo/guitarist and Lawrence senior. "We're not the old guy with a $50,000 Martin who knows 'Arkansas Traveler.'"
All stereotypes aside, $2 Shoes Revival Story makes its mark with genuinely solid music that sounds just as good on a porch as it does on a stage.
$2 Shoes have effectively developed an alter-ego from south of the border called El Tío Ché y la Contrabanda. The members are essentially the same, but instead of bluegrass they play roots music from South instead of North America. The musical douplengler allows them to sometimes play two gigs in one night, under two names with two totally different styles of music. El Tío Ché y la Contrabanda opens for $2 Shoes at the Jazzhaus.
The group is comprised of seven people who play guitar, banjo, dobro, percussion, bass, fiddle, mandolin and flute. Lawrence senior Alvaro Berg said he also played "pamphlets," which leaves a lot to the imagination. The members switch frequently to accommodate their ever changing melting pot of styles.
$2 Shoes started "back in the day," with a bluegrass band called The Jenkins Family that featured multi-instrumentalist Clamp Erlinger, Chesterfield, Mo., senior. The musical collaboration between Erlinger and Rose continued through several personnel changes until it settled on its current lineup.
Fiddler/mandolinist Aaron Redner,
Lawrence resident, will play his last shows
with $2 Shoes this weekend at the Jazzzhaus today and a performance at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive, 7 p.m. on Saturday night.
$2 Shoes frequently ends its performances with a double-time rendition of the Bill Monroe standard "Ya'll Come." The chorus states with eager hospitality, "Ya'll come and see us when you can." The cover
at the Jazzhaus is $3, which suggests that the music of $2 Shoes Revival Story is worth more than the price footwear in its name. Regardless, the fee is a small price to pay for an evening of quality music. Whatever is leftover can be spent on crappy beer.
Contact Weier at bweiner@kansan.com.
This story was edited by Sarah Warren.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, writer Tamir Ansary — like many other Americans — listened to talk radio. He heard callers advocate bombing his homeland "back to the Stone Age."
Ansary hadn't seen Afghanistan, the country in which he was born, in more than 35 years. But the ghosts of his family stirred to life.
Too shy to respond on the radio, he typed an emotional e-mail describing the plight of Afghans: "When you think 'Taliban,' think 'Nazis,'" he wrote. "When you think 'the people of Afghanistan,' think 'the Jews in the concentration camps.'"
He sent the e-mail to about 20 friends, who forwarded it to their friends, who in turn passed it onto others. Suddenly, Ansary found himself an unofficial spokesman for Afghans, "putting World News Tonight on hold to take a call from Orah Winfrey's people."
He expands on his electronic dispatch in a recently published memoir, "West of
Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story." In it, Ansary, 53, recalls growing up in Afghanistan, the son of a secular, Finnish-American mother and a Muslim Afghan father.
Ansary still straddles the two cultures. He reacted, for example, to the terrorist attacks and military action as both an American and as an Afghan.
"I'm an American, and it was devastating to think of that happening to people who look and act and feel, have a culture like you," Ansary said in an interview at his San Francisco home. With the Afghans, "I knew who these people were. They were human beings to me."
In his book, Ansary recalls life in Kabul behind the walls of the clan compound, surrounded by the warmth of his extended family. Instead of television, elders entertained youngsters with genealogy tales.
"Istam permeated the life of the compound like the custard that binds a casserole together." Ansary writes. "Yes, I learned to say my prayers from my Afghan
grandmother; yes, I know the flavor of sundown on the first day of Ramadan," the Muslim holy month.
More than a decade after he left Afghanistan, Ansary traveled to Asia researching a story on Islam and, as a "lapsed Muslim," searching for his roots. In Morocco, Algeria and Turkey, he spoke with Muslims who believed in a strict interpretation of Islam. Many expressed contempt for practices such as drinking alcohol and wearing short skirts, he writes.
But his efforts to understand Islam became more personal when his younger brother traveled to Pakistan — "a long-haired, intellectual college guy, serious about art, serious about environmental issues" and returned, embracing "an orthodox interpretation of Islam," Ansary writes.
The brothers argued about one another's beliefs in the early 1980s. Since that fight, "Riaz has often used the word 'brother,'" Ansary writes, "but never again in reference to me."
Ansary hoped to return to Afghanistan in
February to deliver blankets and clothing to Afghan refugees, but he was only able to make it to neighboring Pakistan. Undaunted, he plans a trip to Kabul this summer.
When he visited the refugee camps outside of Peshawar, he found the area mostly populated by Alghans. It was "familiar in a way that was almost startling," said Ansary, a bespectacled, gently humorous man. "Although it was so different from this world, San Francisco, even after 36 years — it was like your eyes were getting used to the dark. Almost immediately it seemed ordinary to me."
At one camp, a young boy dressed in rags told Ansary his mother and father had just been killed.
"I had to turn away because tears were coming from my eyes," the author said. "You could not do anything."
Since his widely read e-mail, Ansary has continued to write in the hopes that Afghanistan and its people will not be forgotten.
"The world should stick around and be compassionate and help Afghans out," he said.
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