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its showcase of progressive rock
By Shane Hall
.W n.sit Rt'vicu'cr
The Reivers brought iheir pro
gressive rock sounds to Eastgate Live
Friday night in a 90-minute show
that was well received by the large
crowd on hand. The Austin quartet
performed songs from their two al
bums: “Saturday” and "Translate
Slowly" (which the band recorded
under the name Zeitgeist).
“Secretariat” and "Wait For
Time," both from die “Saturday” al
lium, were two of the best songs of
the night as guitarist John Croslin
churned out some solid lead lines,
accompanied by the rhythm guitar
and lead vocals of Kim Longacre.
Meanwhile, the rhythm section of
drummer Garrett Williams and bas
sist Cindy Toth (with right hand in a
cast) kept, a frantic beat.
Croslin and Longacre traded lead
vocal chores throughout the night.
Clearly, Longacre is the superior of
the two. Her performance Friday
night was spectacular as she demon
strated dynamic vocal range. Cros-
lin’s vocals, on the other hand, often
were rendered inaudible by the in-
strumentation. Not that it mattered,
because Croslin suffers from a voice
that is terminally Hat. The show’s
best songs were usually those giving
Longacre the lead vocal.
Nevertheless, while not much of a
vocalist, Croslin is a superb guitar
player, capable of combining gutsy
roots-rock with a progressive South
ern sound. He stands as another ex
ample of the wealth of six-string tal
ent in Austin.
The Reivers premiered several
songs slated to appear on their next
album. These received a decidedly
positive response from the audience,
but it was the material from “Satur
day” that received the most enthu
siastic response. Overall the crowd
seemed to have a great time as it
Hocked to the dance door for almost
every song.
John Croslin and Kim Longacre from the Austin
quartet The Reivers, perform songs from their
two albums: “Satu
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Review
Friday night’s performance showed
the Reivers to he anothet <»l Texas’
great rock bands.
The band’s sound is in the vein of
other Southern rock bands such as
the DBs and Fetchin’ Bones, but it
has a heavier guitar sound than its
contemporaries. It definitely has
moved beyond the esoteric, folk-
rock sound that led to inevitable
comparisons to REM back in 1985.
While the Reivers put on an out
standing show, opening ai t the hill
billies did not fare so well. 1 he Col
lege Station band (tot met is the
Rain) performed SO minutes of 01 ig-
inal material that was hampered hs a
la« k of diversity. Manyulltit
sounded too much alike. H
all three members are taleit:
eians, particularly guitarist 1
Ardoin.
What the killhilliesneedi:
is a vocalist. Ardoin is fairir
songs, but bassist Mark Da®
volt e Lit ks strength.
One-woman show tells history
of black experience in America
By Lesa Smith
Reporter
Actress Vinie Burrows led a captivated autlience
through a collage of voices on the history of the black
experience in America with “Walk Together Children”
Friday night in Rudder Forum.
The one-woman show of poetry, prose and sting
Filled the bare stage with more than 20 people, and it
wa^ well deserving of the standing ovation it received.
Burrows appeared from the depths of the stage in a
vibrant red dress singing “Somebody’s Knocking on
Your Door” and then began her transformation into
many people.
Burrows began with a painful narrative of an aged
slave woman who recalled the beatings she received as a
child who stole a biscuit from her slave master’s kitchen
and who still carries the scars of the lashes on her back.
Burrows transformed into a Dutch woman named
Sojourner Truth, who spoke out against slavery and for
women’s rights in “Ain’t I a Woman?”
refused to change her name because a man from the
Census Bureau thought her name was too shot t.
Burroyvs then transformed into one of the most emo
tionally moving people on the stage: Anita Eckford. “1
Walk Alone” dramatically detailed the young black
girl’s attempt to attend Central High School in Little
Rock, Ark. in 1957 only to be refused entrance by sol
diers with guns and bayonets and a mob calling hei
obscene names.
Burrows closed her performance silhouetting the
Statue of Liberty singing "I forgive you America" with
Langston Hughes’“Let America Be America Again”.
Burrows said she generated the idea of the one-
woman show herself.
“The idea grew out of my rage of acting companies
not allowing me to do what 1 wanted to do," she said.
She told the audience how she took her own money
and Financed the show, which is intended to expose
people to many black writers, poets and composers.
Burrows then injected marvelous humor into the
show yvith a rendition of folk poet Paul Laurence Dun
bar’s “The Party” — which involved portrayals of many
different people and the comical events that occurred
at a party — and yvith Langston Hughes’ “Madam Al
berta K. Johnson” where she portrayed a woman who
But rows has seven dif ferent programs, has traveled
throughout the world performing her one-yvoman
show and has appeared on “The Today Show”.
Burrows’ performance at A&M ended yvith the cur
tains closing in Rudder Forum Friday night, but thanks
to her talent and sensitivity, the doors of blac k history
are kept open with the cries of black voices yearning to
be heard.
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