.THE CADRE, SEPT. 9, PAGE 6 
     
    
   
   
    
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     GREAT SHOW F RIDAY 
     
    
   
   
    
     The entertainment Friday at 
     
     Confederation Centre will present 
     
    
   
   
    
     two sides of folk music, the prim- ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     itive and the sophisticated. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Headlining the evening are Seals 
     
     and Crofts, who play a very in- 
     
     tricate and sophisticated kind of 
     
     music. Jim Seals and Dash Crofts 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “But if] share my toys with all the kids isn’t that communist?” 
     
    
   
   
    
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     have been together under their 
     
     own names for less than a year, 
     
     but they have fifteen years exper- 
     
     ience of playing together in a 
     
     series of bands and as studio 
     
     musicians. The best known of the 
     
     bands they were in was The 
     
     Champs, which had a hit with 
     
     “Tequila” a few years back. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Since then they’ve come a long 
     
     way ~— they play mandolin and 
     
     guitar like virtusos, and their voices 
     
     harmonize beautifully. Their song 
     
     tend toward the mystical, with 
     
     excellent melodies and somewhat 
     
     philosophical lyrics. Several songs. 
     
     the jubilant “See My Life”, the 
     
     moody “Not Be Found” and 
     
     “Ashes in the Snow” are especially 
     
     good. The only group they resemble 
     
     at all are Simon and Garfunkle, 
     
     although they are betterinstrumen- 
     
     talists than S & G and their songs 
     
     are more abstract. Don’t miss. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sone people don’t like Stompin 
     
     Tom. They apparently don’t see 
     
     themselves as associated with his 
     
     admittedly unsophisticated music. 
     
     But the real relevance lies in just 
     
     that primitiveness — the same sort 
     
     of approach Woody Guthrie used. 
     
     The idea is to tell simple, often 
     
     very witty stories, conveying them 
     
     by means of a simple tune. He’s 
     
     not trying to astound with musical 
     
    
   
   
    
     pyrotechnics, but to tell stories 
     
     of the people he has met and the 
     
     places he has been, which are a 
     
     considerable number. He’s natural 
     
     original and he puts on a good 
     
     show. Just watching him give the 
     
     stompin board a workout is an 
     
     act in itself. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tom definitely is not a country 
     
     and western singer. He is more in 
     
     the tradition of the'old ‘trou'ba- 
     
     dours who travelled around making 
     
     up songs in and about the various 
     
     places they were through. Tom has 
     
     a song for just about every place 
     
     he’s been, and most of them are 
     
     very appropriate like the one about 
     
     Sudbury". “The girls are out to 
     
     bingo and the boys are getting 
     
     stinko and we think no more of 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘INCO on a Sudbury Saturday Night? 
     
    
   
   
    
     The closest he comes to being risque 
     
     is the song about the “dirty old 
     
    

    
     men” who work the coal boats 
     
    

    
     between Cape Breton and St. John’s. 
     
     It doesn’t sound like much on paper, 
     
     but it goes over well in performance, 
     
     as do all his songs except- the 
     
    

    
     very few maudlin ballads like the 
     
    

    
     one about P.E.I. called “My Home 
     
     Cradled Out ‘In the Waves.” For- 
     
    

    
     tunately he does very little of this 
     
    

    
     kind of material. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Altogether it should make a very 
     
     good show. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ENT ERTAINMENT 
     
     FRIDAY NIGHT 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     SOUNDS LIKE AN 
     
     SULLIVAN. ACTUALLY 
     
    
   
   
    
     ON STRATFS OUTSTAN DING 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     SEALS AND CROFTS 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANIMAL ACT THAT GOT REJECTED BY ED 
     
     IT’S TWO GUYS FROM TEXAS WHO PLAY 
     
     MANDOLIN AND GUITAR AND WRITE GREAT ORIGINAL MATERIAL 
     
     SOME OF WHICH IS ON THEIR FIRST ALBUM FOR TA RECORDS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     TIlliY’VE BEEN CALLED MEDIEVAL/FOLK, BAROQUE/ROCK AND 
     
     A LOT OF OTHER THINGS. BUT THE MAIN ONE FOR YOU TO KNOW 
     
     COMES FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: “SEALS AND CROFTS ARE 
     
     A TIIOROUUIILY IMPRESSIVE. HIGHLY ENJOYABLIE TEAM THAT DEM- 
     
     MUSICAL TOGETHERNESS. THEY ARE 
     
    
   
   
    
     RliADY TO HEADLINE A BILL.“ 
     
    
   
   
    
     JOE JUFFERAW”, 
     
     “BEN IN THE PEN”, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     YOU’VE ALL HEARD OF STOMPIN TOM CONNORS. Ta 
     
     REASON YOU HAVE IS BECAUSE HIS SONG “BUD THE 
     
     SPUD” BOMBARDED THE AIRWAVES. BUT UNTIL YOU’VE 
     
     HEARD TOM IN PERSON STOMPIN ALL OVER “BIG 
     
     “SUDBURY SATURDAY NIGHT”, 
     
     “LUKE’S GUITAR” 
     
    
   
   
    
     OF HIS OTHER NUMBERS YOU JUST HAVEN’T HEARD 
     
     ANYTHING. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     AND SOME