SMOKEY'S RECORDS

NEW s LET TER VOLUME ONE, NUMBER TWO WINTER, 1992

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Smokey's Records Invites you to an afternoon

of merriment and good cheer with food and drink provided.

Sunday, December 13 2 p.m. until 7 p.m.

1515 South 1500 East

Bob Marley Soogs of Freedom

Island 512280 Reggae artist Bob Marley was, without a doubt, one of the most loved and influential singer/songwriters of contemporary music. This comprehensive 4-CD retrospective covers his long career with 75 songs, many of which are previously unreleased, and is a fitting companion to his earlier compilation, Legend.

A CONVERSATION WITH LEONARD COULSON

This year bas seen the 20th anniversary of the Deseret String Baud and banjoist Leonard Coulson bas been an integral part of that band for 19 of those 20 years. He bas also been the owner of Intermountain Guitar and Banjo equally as long, a «ore that offers sales and repairs of fiDe acoustic instruments, among other thinp.

I spoke with Leonard receatly about the Deseret String Band and their work performing and recording vintage tunes.

Your music has a sense of traditional arrangements, a capturing of the past that might otherwise disappear.

That's sort of the idea. The thing is, our idea of what a traditional arrangement is can only come from as far back as events and things that you can hear, like from early records. So, a lot of what we do and what our background is is playing the kind of music that was arranged for the recordings of the early 1920s when they first started making records.

Often we won't take the whole arrangement from a recording, only various parts of it. A baseline from a guitar that's the coolest thing in the cut might be the thing that we reproduce on a particular

instrument to get the right effect, but we may change the rest of it.

Several of the band members have scholarly backgrounds. Tom Carter has a background in folk architecture and Hal Cannon started a foiJclife center •.•

Right. These guys are folklorists, broadly defined, and I'm not. I'm a musical instrument person. They have a much more scholarly view. Most of the stuff that we play does not come from me. I'm not the person who digs up the cool old material. But those guys do.

A lot of the stuff comes through Ron Kane and through Tom Carter from their playing and their interest in the music. They get a lot material on tapes that may not be available to everybody~ld, old stuff that goes amongst folklorist or musical enthusiasts. Ron also goes to a lot of fiddle festivals and bas a lot of fiddling friends. We get a lot of our material through him that comes from who knows where.

What we're playing I don't think we really think of it as scholarly. Still, you don't want to do something that's obviously anachronistic in some way.

(continued on page 4)

The Desel'et String Band is (from left to right) Tom Carter, Leonard Coulson, Hal Cannon, and Ron Kane.

SMOKEY'S CORNER Season's Greetings, music lovers! With Christmas upon us (and snow

falling like mad as I write), I'd like to take this time to invite each and every one of you to come join us at our annual Christmas Party, to be held here at Smokey's Records on Sunday, December 13, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. This year, besides other goodies, we!Jl be serving up some nice, warm vegetarian chili! So come on in and warm your ears {and your·tummies) while you celebrate with us! •

Now, on to the lists of new teleaks. ~ Some pretty good stuff has · come out recently; tqo much to list in one .; newslett~r, so alas, these lists are only · the "highlight" type. But there's something here to suit every taste, except, perhaps, those of you who are into World Music. And I can only comment here that we are continuing our stock expansion of many types of world music, every t¥ng from Portuguese Fado to Australian aborigine. Swing by or call to check it out.

Notice I've included a list of Chiistmas titles here for your perusal. You can assume that these are more or less (with one or two exceptions) favorites of yours' truly; and that out of the virtual plethora · of what's out there, these ~m my highest recommendations. Of the new Christmas titles, I have to admit that one of them really isn't new-~the New American Guitar Ensemble's Christmas Carols. This one has been consistently one of our best sellers in the Christmas genre for, years, like George Winston's December; but it is new to CD this year, 3!!d I suspect that many of you who have worn out those old LPs ofNAGE will be ovetjoyed.. Beyond that, although I

.' haven't heard the new Mason Williams' A Gift of Song, I have high expectations.

Lastly, if you can't make our Christmas party on December 13, I'd like to extend to all of you on behalf of myself and my cohorts here at Smokey's Records my sinc¢re thanks for continuing to support us in our continual efforts to be the best place around these parts for buying good music; and above all, to wish you a rewarding holiday season.

Published quarterly by Smokey's Records. Written and p~ced by Joe Stobel and John Koelsch. Photography by the Event Newspaper. Copyright (c) 1992 by Smokey's Records. All rights reserved.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC TRIED AND TRUE FAVORITES Cass CD

RCA 2626 Harry Belafonte To Wish You a

: Merry Christmas 7.99 11.99 Collegium 106 .. Cambridge Singers/ Christmas Night,

John Rutter Carols of Nativity 9.99 14.99 RCA 60824 Chieftains The Bells of Dublin 8.99 14.99 Capit~l 46318 NatJ<ing Cole The Christmas Song 5.99 11.99 Capitol · 93116 Kingston Tr1o Last Month of the Year 6.99 11.99 Am. Gram. 1988 Mannheim.Steamroller . A Fresh Aire Christmas (II) 8.99 14.99

· Am. Gram. .. 1984 ·Mannheim Steapuoller Christmas (I) 8.99 14.99 Warner 26649 Michael Martin Murphy A Cowboy Christmas 8.99 13.99 ~CA .>! ' 10043 Raffi

-o":-"' Christmas Album 8.99 13.99 .. Chrlstmas Gift . for U Polygram 4oo5 Phil Spector 8.99 14.99

Sona Gaia<· ~ 151 Eric Tingstad/Nancy Rumbel The Gift 8·.99 i4.99 ' Ryio 0125 Various Artists, dir. by Phil

Manzenara & Andy McJYly Christmas: The Players .9.99 14.99 t \\;"mdham Hill 1025 George Winston ;;; December 8.99 14.99 '

NEW TiiJS YEAR

Capitol 98742 Garth Brooks Byyond the Season 10.49 14.99 Revere 182 New American

· Guitar Ensemble Christmas Carols 8.99 14.99 CBS 52778 Riders in the Sky Merry Christmas from

.. Harmony Ranch 8.99 13.99 Real Music 2007 Mason Williams

.. A Gift of Song 8.99 14.99 ,,

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SIGNIFICANT NEW RELEASES ;}

BLUES .. ·-':-:

Polygram .517086 Roy Buchanan Sweet Dreams: Anthology 29.99 Blind Pig 5.002 Joanna Connor Fight . 8.99 14.99 Polygram 512721 Robert Cray • i·. I Was Warned 10.49 14.99 Atlantic 81389 King Curtis/Champion Jack Dupree .: ...

Blues at Montreux 11.99 Atlantic 82434' Champion Jack Dupree Blues from the Gutter 11.99 GRP/Stretch 1102 Robben Ford Robben Ford & Blue Line 8.99 13.99 Virgin 86553 John Lee Hooker .. Boom Boom 8.99 13.99 MCA 10677 B. B. King King of the Blu~ (b9x set) 44.99 5~.99 Black Top 1081 Maria Muldaur Louisiana I.,ove·Call "8.99 . 14.99 Blind Pig 5003 Roy Rogers & -Norton Buffalil', _. . - '1\11 .. £<. ,.

· .Tn"'elin • Tracks · '8.99 14;~9 Blind Pig 5001: Jim Thackery -,:~:~~Ei;ppty Arms Motel' ·- 8.99 i4.99 Round~ 2117 Irma Thomas True Believer 8.99 14.99 Black Top 1083 Various Artists .; Blues Harmoni-ca Spotlight 8.99 14.99 RCA 66065 Various Artists

( Women Blues Singers of the 20s, . Better Boot That Thing'. ).99·~ 11.99

CBS 53168 Stevie Ray Vaughan In the Beginning 10.49 14.99

BRITISH ISLES

Atlantic 82421 Maire Brennan Maire (of Clannad) 10.49 14.99 Honeybee 3021 Mark Jardine Come the Seasons 8.99 14.99 Green Linnet 3074 June Tabor Angel Tiger 8.99 14.99 Green Linnet 1121 Tannahil Weavers Mermaid Song 8.99 14.99

COUNTRY

CBS 48956 Roy Acuff The Essential1936-49 7.99 11.99 CBS 48957 Gene Autry The Essential1933-46 7.99 11.99 Capitol 98585 Suzy Bogguss Voices in the Wind 8.99 14.99 Capitol 98743 Garth Brooks The Chase 10.49 14.99 RCA 60939 Chieftains Another Country

(Irish group goes country) 8.99 13.99 Electra 61442 Guy Clark Boats to Build 10.49 14.99 Polygram 512567 Kathy Mattea Lonesome Standard Time 8.99 14.99

FOLK AND BLUEGRASS Virgin 86458 Sleeping Gypsy3441

Joan Baez Maggie Beers/Julie Mark Bluegrass Conspiracy Dan Crary .

Play Me Backwards Tales

Cass CD 8.99 13.99

10.99

Sugar Hill Rounder Rounder Philo CBS Warner Shanachie Warner ·

. Virgin

CBS

G.RP ECM GRP CBS Polygram

CBS ECM Rhino CBS Verve Warner Capitol

3806 2.19 Bela Fleck

3122 Tish Hinojosa 1149 Mary McCaslln

52478 Bill Monroe 45063 ' Maura·b•connell · 8005 John Stewart ''

42522 Sweet Honey in the Rock 86416 Loudon Wainright Ill

JAZZ 53190 Terence Blanchard

9684 Michael & ~andy_ Brecker 835586 Gary Burton/Steve Swallow

9683 Larry Carlton 53172 Harry Connick, Jr.

832023 Paco De Lucia/

Makin ' Bluegrass 8.99 Bluegrass Guitar (reissue) 8.99 14.99 Inroads 8.99 14.99 Culture Swing 8.99 14.99 Things We Said Today (Best) 8.99 14.99 The Essential1945-49 11.49 21.99 Blue ·is the Color/Hope 8.99 14.99

· · ' Bullets in the Hourglass 8.99 14.99 In This Land · 8.99 14.99 History. 8.99 13 .99

Malcolm X· Motion Picture Score 10.49 14.99 Return/Brecker Brothers 8.99 13 .~9

Hotel Hello 13 .99 -Kid Gloves 8.99 14.99 25 10.49 15.99

Castro Marin 13 .99 47478

513437 71053 46083

Jolin McLaughlin · Herbie Hancock Keith Jarrett

,. Head_hunte? 7.99 11.99

Manhattan Transfer Branford 'Marsalis

513830 Oscar Peterson 42523 Shadowfax · 99225 Frank Sinatra

Vienna Concert 8.99 13 .99 Birdland: Anthology 15.99 26.99 I Heard You Twice 10.49 14 .. 99 Exclusively For My Friend (4CDs) 51.99 Esperanto 8.99 13.99 Best of the Capitol Years 8.99 13.99

MISCELLANEOUS

Morgan Creek20015 Last of the Mohicans Original Soundtrack 10.49 14.99 Reprise 45130 Malcolm X Original Soundtrack 10.49 14.99 Warner 45041 Mike Oldfield ' Tubuiar Bells II 10.49 14.99

NATIVE AMERICAN

Canyon 609 R. Carlos Nakai Emergence 8.99 13.99 Canyon 7010 R. Carlos Nakai/W. Eaton Ancestral voices 8.99 13.99 C. Oldman Music 5 Coyote Oldman In Medicine River 8.99 14.99 Folkways 40411 Various Artists Plains~Chippewa/Metis Music

From Turtle Mountain 8.99 14.99

NEW AGE :i •·

Windham Hill11120 Scott Cossu Stained Glass Memories 8.99 13 .99 Wmdham Hill11115 Liz Story My Fooli~h H,eart 8.99 13 .99 Narada 1032 Various Artists Guitar Works 8.99 14.99 Narada 1031 Various Artists Piano Solos 8.99 14.99

REGGAE

Island 512280 Bob Marley Songs of Freedom (4CDs) 44.99 Heartbeat 130 The Meditations Return of 8.99 14.99 Heartbeat 129 The Melodians Swing & Dine 8.99 14.99 Heartbeat 76 Lee Scratch Perry Sounds from the Hotline 8.99 14.99 Virgin 86500 Maxi Priest For Real 8.99 13.99

ROCK AND POP Polygram 517294 Allman Brothers Fillmore Concerts 29.99 CBS 53226 Leonard Cohen The Future 8.99 14.99 CBS 532000 Bob Dylan As Good As I Been to You 10.49 14.99 Warner 45010 Brian Eno The Shutov Assembly 10.49 14.99 Geffen 24473 Peter Gabriel Us 10.49 14.99 JRS 35823 Levellers A Weapon Called the Word 8.99 13.99 Warner 45055 REM Automatic for the People 10.49 14.99 Virgin 86499 Keith Richards Main Offender 8.99 14.99 CBS 53178 Sa de Love Deluxe 10.49 14.99 Geffen 24492 Siouxie & the Banshees Twice Upon a Time (Singles) 8.9913 .99 CBS 53309 Spin Doctors Homebelly Grove 8.99 13.99 Elektra 61385 10,000 Maniacs Our Time in Eden 10.49 14.99 A&M 0005 Suzanne Vega 99.9 F 8.99 13.99 Warner 45057 Neil Young Harvest Moon 10.49 14.99

MARK JARDINE

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Mark Jaidfue ., Come tht!' Seasons

Honeybee 3021 CbMoisseurs of celtic folk . music wili be pleased to know' that Mark Jardine h~ just released his first 5olo album, Come the Seasons. Mark has been· an active performer in Utah' s acoustic music scene for over 20 years, and during that time, he had dreamed of putting together a collection of traditional folk music of the. British Isles and North America, including several original compositions which would reflect his love of these traditions. With his new release, he has accomplished his dream. He has ~reatea" an ·album of lively fiddle tunes and warm sensitive ballads beautifully packaged and produced. It is a true delight.

Tht Chi/J:rm i Dance TluaJIT

Maggie Beers and Julie Mark Tales: Music of the Children's

Dance Theater Sleeping Gypsy 3441

Tales is a collection of stories and folktales set to music and is composed and produced by Julie Mark and Maggie Beers for the Children's Dance Theatre, which has been the beneficiary of these women's talents for many years. Tales is a beautiful work, and includes a lively rendition of the Brothers Grimm story, "The Frog Prince," as well other entertaining traditional folk tales, some narrated and some sung. The beautiful "Elinda," based on a Estonian folktale is particularly enjoyable. Tales ranks as a major new release of children's music , but that shouldn't keep those of us grownups young at heart from enjoying the stories and the music.

FINALLY

AVAILABLE IN

COMPACT DISC!

LEONARD COULSON

(continued from page 1) Like Dixieland music or chamber music

from Italy 300 years qo, you're trying to create some sort of mood or sense of time. But I don't think we think about it in a scholarly way. I think we just start playing and eventually work out some way that we like it and we're pleased to present it.

We like to play. I think the thing that has kept us going all these years is that we like to come up with a set of music and then present it, if ()Dly for a short period, either on a tape or at a couple of concerts. It's new material that we then get to interpret in our own way and present.

Would you say the Deseret String Band is more of a serious hobby?

ORDERING INFORMATION

I don't think of it as a hobby, but certainly none of us play music for a living, although Ron probably depends more on it than the rest of us do. But we all have jobs and a variety of interests. As much as anythina, what keeps us together is we like each other. And if you don't keep at it, it gets too hard to do and then, after a while, it's agony. Of course, I don't want to be taken

advantage of when I play, but I don't really care if I get paid or not when I play anymore. I want the job to be something that either seems to be fun, worthwhile, interesting and if you get paid, great, and if you don't, that's okay too.

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