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The Other Ones
The Strange Remain
Grateful Dead Records
When the Grateful Dead dis
banded after the death of Jerry
Garcia, the question on the mind
of the musical community was
“who will carry the torch?”
Many groups, from Phish to
Widespread Panic, were touted
as the new king of the jam
bands.
Fear not, Deadheads — the
true next generation has arrived.
The Other Ones, formed from
• the ashes of the Dead by Bob
;Weir, Phil Lesh and Mickey
Heart, have brought the music
back to the people.
The Strange Remain, a double
disc culled from the Other One’s
headlining performances during
The 1998 Further Festival, is a
True testament to the original
spirit of the Grateful Dead. Many
iDead standards make appear
ances, including “St. Stephen,”
“Jack Straw,” “Sugaree” and
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“China Cat Sunflower,” all per
formed with an energy that was
at times missing from the Dead’s
later concerts.
Special attention should also
be given to Bruce Hornsby,
whose keyboards and vocals add
a new dimension to several
Grateful Dead masterpieces.
In the album’s liner notes, the
band says it hopes to “have a
chance to see you ‘out there’
sometime very soon.” In the
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(Grade: A)
—Riley LaGrone
Asylum Street Spankers
Hot Lunch
CD Courtesy of Cold
Spring Records
Hot Lunch, the third release
from the Austin-based band Asy
lum Street Spankers, has a bit of
something for everyone.
Whether one prefers jazz, folk,
salt grass, swing or blues. Hot
Lunch satisfies even the pickiest of
appetites.
All acoustic, “the way God in
tended, without the aid of demon
electricity,” the Spankers are a mix
of vaudeville and religious revival.
Substituting the ukulele, slide
whistle, bongos and kazoo for am
plifiers and a mix of household re
pair items for other, more tradition
al instruments, the Spankers
strum, play and bang out highly
entertaining and very funny music.
Hot Lunch showcases the wide
variety of talent in the band, mix
ing the humor of Mysterious John
with the sexuality of Christina
Marrs’ powerful vocals.
The Spanker’s matriarch, Marrs,
showcases her voice on “Cake
walk” and “If I Were You,” a song
that every guy should listen to be
fore getting involved with a
woman.
Mysterious John and Popps
Bayless, both veteran Austin musi
cians, bring the kazoo, humor and
a few off-color jokes to Hot Lunch
in such tracks as “UFO Attack” and
“Fanny.”
Wammo’s deep baritone and
true-to-life lyrics make “Smells Like
Thirty-Something” a sure hit with
the swing crowd, and his country
spoof, “Sad Bomber,” is enough to
make any cowboy smile — at him
self. Without a doubt, this hot
lunch will fill you up and leave you
asking for dessert. (Grade: A)
Laurie Marks
Selfish
CD Courtesy of Rlazma
Records
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Queen
Latifah takes on sex, drugs and her
cigarette habit in her new book.
“If you see me on the streets
with a cigarette, step to me," writes
the 28-year-old rap star and ac
tress. “I figure if the whole words
gets on my ... I’ll have to quit."
The book, Ladies First: Revela
tions of a Strong Woman, is part au
tobiography and part advice col
umn. She describes her rough,
inner-city childhood, stint as a drug
dealer and a series of one-night
stands where she exchanged sex
for money.
"Basically, there’s some things
in the book that I felt I shouldn't
discuss with people." she said.
“But at the end of the day it was
like, ‘what are we trying to accom
plish here?’ Do we want to feed
somebody a fairy-tale story about
how you were poor and then be
came rich?’"
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Laurie Marks is a good singer
to listen to as long as she is not
singing her own music.
Unfortunately, on her latest re
lease, Selfish, Marks has written
six of the ten offerings, which
makes for an ear-jangling sound.
Her jazzy, sultry voice is a joy
to listen to on the other four
songs, especially “Sun’s Gonna
Rise,” which terrificly showcases
her style and talent. Marks is not
a good songwriter, though, and
the incredible guitar riffs her band
introduces on the original songs
cannot make up for her boring
lyrics and obnoxious vocal lines.
Marks should definitely stay in
the business and record another
album — she just needs to sing
someone else’s music. (Grade: C-)
Anka believes he
has lasting power
-Susan Overcash
Manisha Parekh
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) —
Paul Anka puts himself in the
same class with Aerosmith.
The teen idol of the ’50s and
early ’60s said the hard rockers
have staying power—just like him.
Other rockers stress "form over
content," the 57-year-old Anka said
Sunday. “They are actually manu
factured entertainment groups.
They are a product of technology.
What you are listening to is tech
nology."
But not Aerosmith. he said, and
certainly not himself. He and the
’70s band have sustained their ap
peal by sticking to their roots.
Anka, who is in demand in Las
Vegas, wrote “Diana," “Put Your
Head on My Shoulder" and “Puppy
Love."
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