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Friday
March 21
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om Austin, is playing with Jazztop,
rock band from Bryan-College
tation, at Dixie Theatre at 9 p.m.
Mike Cansellare, an acoustic
uitarist from Austin, is playing
t Sweet Eugene’s House of
ava at 9:30 p.m.
Kid Fantastic, a rock band from
ryan-College Station, is playing
lith 100 Watt Clock, a rock band
om Washington, D.C., at the Cow
lop at 8 p.m.
MSC Film Society is showing
liars Attacks at Rudder Theatre.
I Steve O’Neill, a rock musician,
i; playing at Chelsea Street Pub
Ind Grill at 9 p.m.
Don Overby, a classic rock mu-
licianfrom Bryan-College Station,
I playing at Fitzwilly’s at 9 p.m.
I Puerto Rico Student Associa-
ion is hosting a dance and party
itRamada Inn at 9 p.m.
Saturday
March 22
Big Apple Trio, a jazz band from
Bryan-College Station, is playing at
fJweet Eugene's House of Java at
):30 p.m.
Blue Valentine, a classic rock
Bnd R&B band from Bryan-College
Station, is playing at Fitzwilly’s at 9
Citizen Lane, a funk band from
\ustin, is playing with Kid Fantas
tic, a rock band from Bryan-College
(Station, at Rudder Fountain at
Is-.SO p.m.
y^/r/ne Gardner, a comedian, is
srforming at Caffe Capri at 9 p.m.
Lost Prophets, a rock band
femBryan-College Station, is play
ing with Jester, a rock band from
Bryan-College Station, and Com
mon Groove, a rock band from
Bryan-College Station, at the Cow
Hop at 8 p.m.
Steve O’Neill, a rock musician,
is playing at Chelsea Street Pub
and Grill at 9 p.m.
Vertical Horizon, an acoustic
rock band from Washington, D.C.,
is playing with Fysher, a rock band
from Bryan-College Station, at Dix
ie Theatre at 9 p.m.
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By Michael Schaub
The Battalion
K athleen Ferrara is, like, a profes
sor or something, and she
teaches all this random stuff
about language, 24-7.
Ferrara, an associate professor of
English, is also one of the few peo
ple over 30 who can understand
that sentence.
“My daughter is my main
source of youth slang,” Ferrara
said, “and she just turned
25. She’ll be out of the
loop soon.”
Young people who
speak jargon are not
just “mall rats” or “Val
ley girls,” Ferrara said
— they are linguistic pi
oneers.
“Youth language has
always been very dy
namic,” she said. “College
students are at the fore
front of clipping and adapt
ing new words. So many peo
ple of the same age are clustered
together, it’s like a cauldron.”
Ferrara has studied linguistics
and society for years.
“People sometimes report slang
words to me,” she said. “I have a
cousin who’s a fifth-grade teacher who
told me there’s a new word that means
‘cool’ — ‘tight.’”
Changes in vocabulary are hard to
keep up with, Ferrara said, the chief
reason being the proliferation of slang
language in television and movies.
She points to the popularity of
such lines as “Show me the money”
from Jerry Maguire and “Hasta la vista,
baby” from Terminator 2 as evidence
of popular culture’s influence on the
English language.
“A CEO would quit, and the news
papers would say, ‘Hasta la vista,
baby,” she said.
Although vocabulary changes al
most daily, A&M students said they
have noticed new phrases and words
pop up in the last few years, such as:
-Don’t go there. Definition: Let us
not talk about that. The phrase appar-
ently gained popularity on daytime
television talk shows.
-What’s up with that? Definition:
Do you understand the logic
and/or explanation behind this
particular situation?
-My bad. Definition: My fault.
-24-7. Definition: All the time.
This abbreviated form of “24 hours
a day, 7 days a week" is an example
of what Ferrara and other linguists
call “clipping,” or shortening words
and phrases.
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shows.
-What's up with
that?
Definition: Do you
understand the logic
and/or explanation
behind this particular
situation?
James Palmer, The Battaeion
LeDoux's influence spans Texas
Vertical Horizon
By Karen Janes
The Battalion
hris LeDoux has every right to sing
about cowboys, good horses and
rodeo life.
"I won the Little Britches rodeo cham
pionship title two years in
Wyoming high school rodeo
championship and the inter
collegiate rodeo champi
onship. It was a long row to
hoe!” he said.
LeDoux, who is headlin
ing a show at Hurricane Har
ry’s Saturday night, began his
music career by selling tapes
to fellow riders out of the
back of his pick-up truck.
LeDoux’s unique sound,
which he calls “a combina
tion of western soul, sage
brush blues, cowboy folk
and a little rodeo rock ’n’
roll,” caught the attention of
Liberty Records and country
singer Garth Brooks.
Brooks even mentioned
LeDoux in a line of his first
hit song, “Much Too Young (To Feel This
Damn Old).”
“At the first show we did together, Garth
said to me, ‘You don’t know what using
your name in that song has done for my
career.’ I always knew people would like
my music. Garth just let them know where
to find me,” LeDoux said.
LeDoux’s influence has crept into the
Texas music scene as well. Cory Morrow,
lead singer of the Cory Morrow Band, will
be playing with LeDoux this weekend.
Morrow said he has been a longtime
fan of LeDoux.
“When we first started
playing in Lubbock, we
would drive around listen
ing to old LeDoux tapes,”
he said.
Along with LeDoux, Mor
row said his band also is in
fluenced by classic country
artists like Conway Twitty.
“Willie Nelson, Robert
Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker
and Merle Haggard have all
influenced us.” Morrow
said. “Any of the highway
men. Local artists, too.”
Morrow describes his
music as Texas-style coun
try. Dub Miller, a senior
recreation, parks and
tourism sciences major
and lead singer of local
band Highway 6, said the same about his
band’s sound.
“We’re a modern-day version of old 1970’s
bands,” Miller said. “We make no rules.”
Highway 6 is made up of six Texas A&M
students and will be the opening band
a row, the
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Pat Green
Country musician
Saturday night.
“We are very excited about playing
with Chris LeDoux,” Miller said. “He’s
something else. And Cory Morrow and
Pat Green are great. We played with
them on 6th Street (in Austin) before the
Chris LeDoux, a country musician from
Wyoming, is playing at Hurricane Harry's Sat-
t.u. game.”
Highway 6 has been together since the
beginning of August. They play mostly
covers, but have written some of their own
music. Miller’s favorite original song is the
“Fightin’ Texas Aggie Song.”
“It’s one long inside joke about life at
A&M,” Miller said. “We’re hoping to come
out with a CD single of it in September.”
Pat Green and his band will also be play
ing Saturday night. They recently complet
ed their second album, Georgia’s Bar.
Green said country music has become
his biggest ambition.
“Our success is growing at a much faster
pace than I thought it would,” Green said.
“I just want to keep doing it. The love of my
life is to sit down with my guitar and write
a new song.”
The Cory Morrow Band has released a
self-titled album, which Morrow said is a
little bit of everything.
“It has an an outlaw feel with ‘in your
face’ lyrics,” Morrow said, “but there
are some nice waltzes and good driving
music, too."
Morrow said he likes to write about per
sonal experiences and fictional events.
“Some of the songs reflect exactly what
I’m feeling or thinking, but I also use the
music to put me in another world, to recre
ate life and make it more interesting,”
Morrow said.
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