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Audience Stomps to Bluegrass As Dirt Band Returns to Kansas
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By DIANE YEAMANS Kansan Reviews Editor
Jim Ibbotsen, left, and Jeff Hannah sing during the encores.
The crowd was standing in what seemed to be only moments after the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had hit the stage Saturday night in Hoch Auditorium.
"We're in Kansas again," the Dirt Band seemed to belong here.
They played a couple of songs from an album to be released next month, which was recorded in Cowton Ballroom in Kansas City, Mp., as well as "honky Tonkin" from another album, "The Circle Will Be Unbroken."
WHEN THE BAND played "Jumbala" the stomping and screaming probably surpassed any heard in Hoch Auditorium since basketball games were played there—or at least since the last Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concert in 1972.
Then the words "i just want be a Cosmic Cowboy" bounced off Hoch's high ceiling.
The members of the Dirt Band chased the Confederate Army "Down in New Orleans" only to have their walkin' shoes wear out. John McEuen's bando jungle was off. But in a moment it was fixed and he was off on a rousing medley of old banjo tunes.
ALL THE GOOD times came flooding back with "House on Pooh Corners," and the audience sat quietly, almost in reverence, for "Mr. Bloatanes."
But the audience was too tshy to yell get back on cue for the Beatties' dirt The Dirt Bottom.
After two encores, the clock said 11 p.m.
It seemed as if it should be 9 a.m.
The members of the Dirt Band proved themselves as versatile musicians. They had to be when the piano amplifier went out, strings broke and the wash board was missing. If one instrument didn't work, you picked up another one and filled in the part.
MAYBE THE greatest experience of the concert was to see John McEuen, probably one of the best blue grass fiddlers in the country, prince all over the stage.
Steve Martin, a banjo-playing comic, was one of the better lead-in acts at KU recently. He played a unique version of "Dueling Banjos."
During banjos:
The audience waited a long time before the Dirt Band played but the time was well worth it even without the band's washboard.
Stevie's Abilities Are Musical Wonder
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To say Wonder is talented is an understatement. He plays the drums, bass, harmonica, various keyboardes and moogs all very professional. It seems as though all the musicians could have given Wonder the ability to see has to throw his vocals are flawless.
The ability to write, arrange and produce music and then do the majority of the performing of that music on an album is rare. This is evidenced by the lack of such works in our library. This unusual ability and uses it superbly throughout his new album, "Innerspaces."
Take Paul McCarty's solo album, Half of the songs are pointless instrumentals. Half are beautiful.
When he mixes all his skills together,
Wonder enters with a polished sound
and the rhythm is strong.
EFFORTS by other artists to record this type of one man album show the difficulties of a solo artist.
and drum parts give the album the flavor of a typical high school band.
Peter Townsend of Who also tried his talents at being a one man record show on "Who Came First." He reached the heights of resembling the sound of a unified band with decent production, but couldn't find the ability within himself to cope with his philosophical qualities at the same time. The album seemed schudd as a result.
By BILL WEBER
COMPOSING his soul in music is not a problem for Wonder. His essence flows like a river.
The titles of the songs speak well of their content, "Too High" is just that. Here Wonder captures moments of rare elation and excitement as they accomplish such a powerful emotion.
“‘Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing’ is careless in its rhythm, played and produced with the right amount of confidence. The right amount of confidence is very capable of having great insight.
A FEW OCCASIONS arise in the material where one gets flashbacks of young Wonder
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