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By PAM SPILLEK
City Reporter
Bryan voters can look forward to
ending less time and gas at the city
oils this year.
The Bryan School Board of Trus
tees and the Bryan City Council will
ihold a joint election Apr. 5.
fp Both the board and the council
will elect three members and share
the costs of holding the election,
i Candidates for the Bryan School
Board positions will be posted in the
Educational Services Center, 2200
Villa Maria, before the election.
Polling places for each precinct will
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By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Writer
H Nanci Griffith is neither a progres
sive country performer nor 27 de
spite what the Battalion insisted in
its preview of her Basement concerts
Friday and Saturday.
1 Although she eschews the label
“folk” musician, that is just what she
is. If you consider a “folk” musician
someone who writes about people —
folk — those who have entered her
|jife and left a mark on it. If you con-
der a “folk” musician someone who
ies to tell a story and make a point
hen they do.
If you consider a “folk” musician
someone who makes their living
playing but “only because they enjoy
it. ” If all those things were on your
l list of “What makes a folk musician,”
then Griffith is on your list under G.
Griffith, 26, gave a convincing
lerformance of her skills as a folk
musician on Friday night and gave
ample testimony of why so many
people now include her in their dis
cussions when they talk about the
nebulous “Texas Music Scene.”
I While Griffith included songs by
other “folk” musicians, such as Bruce
Carlson, Mary McCaslin, Tom Pax
ton, Mike Williams, Caroline Hester
and John Prine, it was her own songs
that provided the vehicle that kept
the crowd of 60 spellbound.
' The faces in the crowd they make
my ups and downs
There are nights I leave here
proud
If she didn’t leave proud Friday
night she at least left with a smile on
her face, despite the draft onstage.
Although Griffith said her fingers
be posted publicly at a later date.
Absentee voting will be conducted
at the city secretary’s office in the
Bryan Utilities Building, or by mail
from Mar. 17 to Apr. 1.
Puch card voting machines will be
used during the election and for the
absentee ballots.
The election, will fill posts now
held by B.F. Vance Jr., Woody
Humphries and Thomas D. Borski.
The board renewed the contract of
Superintendent Wesley K. Sum
mers for the next five years. Con
tracts were also awarded to director
and adminstrative staff members.
The board will recognize Feb. 15
as KAMU Public Television Day in
honor of its 10th anniversary as
Bryan-College Station’s public tele
vision station.
In other action, the board discus
sed the results of conservation prog
rams enacted by the schools.
Bryan schools have reduced their
electricity comsumption from
16,244,408 kilowatt hours in 1975 to
9,369,032 kwh in 1979. The reduc
tion is due to increased conservation
of electricity by systems such as a
time clock which shuts off after hours
at the Henderson school.
5 ‘folk’ music
campus crowd
were so cold she felt like a fourth-
grader playing guitar it would have
been hard to notice.
Griffith’s songs were simply pow
erful.
That power comes from her ability
to tell a story with each song, to make
the listener feel a part of the tune.
Again, maybe that is what makes a
“folk” musician.
Griffith is a shy, unassuming, pe
tite lady offstage. Onstage she is in
complete control — especially when
she is in good voice as she was
Friday.
Perhaps the best indication of the
degree of control she held that cold
night was her delivery of Mike Wil
liams’ “Wichita Falls Waltz.”
This, an a capella song, is recorded
on Williams’ “Radio Show” album.
Griffith’s strong Irish-tinted voice is
just the vehicle that song needed.
It’s great she has chosen that song to
be standard fare.
Indeed, she can be counted on to
end at least one set on it during every
concert. And when the line comes
around about the coyote, mournfully
enough, usually every drunk in the
crowd, and then some, feels proper
ly obliged to howl.
Friday night, Griffith got through
the line twice with only stone silence
in return. Either every soul there
was so overwhelmed by her delivery
that they just forgot to howl or maybe
they didn’t know they we^e sup
posed to.
When the third time came
around, Griffith stopped and asked
where all the coyotes were, and this
time they answered, all 60 of them. I
think, if anything, most of the people
were stunned that this song could
actually be interpreted as a fine love
song and not the mockery that Wil
liams himself makes of it.
Griffith found the time to treat the
crowd to a new song, one yet without
a name, and it is as fine as any of her
other latest. “Late Night Movie
Song,” written only a few months
ago, is finally growing on me and I
now think it may be one of her finest.
Among the songs appearing on her
album (now out of print), “There’s a
Light Beyond These Woods,” she
was outstanding on “I Remember
Joe,” the title song, “Alabama Soft-
spoken Blues” and “West Texas
Sun. ” And the stories that went with
them were just as fine.
And her future wish to build a tow
er on the west Texas plains is as awe
some as the deja vu she expressed
when she was 15 in “Road Musi
cian.”
The stage was set for Nanci by loc
al performer Lyle Lovett, also in
very fine voice. Griffith accompa
nied Lovett on several songs, includ
ing a Jesse Winchester song “Isn’t
That So/’ and Lovett’s classic “Clos
ing Time.”
Lovett, a bluesman now making
up the major part of his sets with
songs of his own writing, has come a
long way himself in the last few
years. In addition to the songs on
which Griffith and he did so fine a
job, Lovett was particularly impress
ive on John Grimaudo’s “Young
Girl” and his own “Walk Through
the Bottomland.”
I would highly recommend your
taking time to see either one of these
performers if you want to sit around
and listen to some good blues and
“folk” music.
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HOUSTON FORUM
FEBRUARY 22-23, 1980
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
5300 SOUTH MAIN, HOUSTON, TEXAS
The Houston Forum is part of a nationwide effort to
allow various citizens to speak out on family concerns,
strengths, weaknesses, needs, and solutions to prob
lems. To register to speak at the Houston forum, send
your name, address, and phone number to: White House
Conference on Families, P.O. Box 53495, Houston, TX.,
77052, or call: (713) 626-2036.
Results of the Houston forum will be compiled into a
report to be discussed at the national conference on
families in Los Angeles, July 10 through 12.
To be included in a drawing to select Texas represen
tatives to the national conference, fill out and send in the
coupon below.
I am interested in representing Texas as a delegate to
the White House Conference on Families in Los Angeles,
July 10-12, 1980. I understand that my transportation
and accommodation expenses will be paid. (There will be
25 names drawn by officers of the Texas Bank from
those submitted.)
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Austin, TX 78767
If your name is drawn
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by March 31.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1980
United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 12, the
43rd day of 1980 with 323 to fol
low. This is Abraham Lincoln’s
birthday.
The moon is moving toward its
new phase.
The morning stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury
and Venus.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aquarius.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th presi
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British biologist Charles Darwin
were born Feb. 12, 1809.
On this date in history:
In 1953, the Soviet Union
broke off relations with Israel
when terrorists bombed the
U.S.S.R. delegation in Tel Aviv.
In 1963, a jetliner crashed into
the Florida Everglades, killing 43
people.
In 1973, the first American
prisoners of war were released by
North Vietnam; 116 were flown
from Hanoi to the Philippines.
In 1974, Patricia Hearst’s
abductors asked her wealthy
father for $230 million worth of
free food as evidence of good faith
in negotiating for her release.
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be a slave, so I would not be a
master. This expresses my idea of
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