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ROBERT K. OERMANN JACK JACKSON SaysMlf You Don't Buy From Me, I Cant Save You MoneyT NEW or USED ANY MAKE OR MODEL See or call JACK JACKSON at HIPPODROME 1212 Broadway Nashville. Tennessee (615) 248-5100 In Stock Only Guitars Takamine Alvarez Selected Models Up To 50 Off. Ludwig Evans Heads Vi Price Yamaha Drum Rack Vi Price S75" Linn Drum $575" Chet Atkins Gibson Country Gentlemen Guitars In Stock Houston and Nashville. The tremulous slide guitar of David Champagne and equally swampy guitar work of Mark Sandman provide part of the distinctive quality Treat Her Right has.

Jim Fitting's haunting harmonica work adds another mysterious element The doonvy, dark vocals and leftfield lyrics add another layer. But even in a band full of unique qualities, Conway's drumming stands out Instead of a full rock drum kit he employs a "cocktail "All the big companies used to make them around 1958-63. In some of those old I Love Lucy shows when they show clips of Ricky Ricardo's band you would see a guy playing one." The cocktail drum is on a stand with a footpedal tom-tom that hits it from below while you strike the top with sticks or brushes. "I came across one for (35. It twisted us into a new direction, a little different groove.

We wanted to get away from that big kick-snare that's kinda invaded rock 'rf roll." The guitar work is reminiscent of Muddy Waters at times. The singing seems Lou Reed "I've certainly never heard anybody else who sounds like this band," Conway says in a meliflu-ous, mellow telephone tone, relaxing in his hotel room in mid-tour. He reports that the young band has graduated from vans to tour bus status to promote its new collection, Tied to the Tracks. Like its predecessor, the LP was created in a spirit of no-conflict experi-mentatioa "Democracy and anarchy is how it works. If a song feels good, we'll tweek on it some more." Treat Her Right takes its name from the title of the Roy Head hit of 1965 because "it's a great sentiment," says Conway.

Head became a frequent Nashville visitor as a country star of the 1 970s. Treat Her Right has also become a regular Music City favorite: The band's first appearance locally was as the opening act for The BoDeans in 1987. Last year, it returned as one of the bands on WKDFs "One For the Sun" bilL Treat Her Right returns to Nashville with an appearance at EaistmSquavThursdayatlO p.m. Colin Wade Monk Bongo Fury will open. Tickets are $5 in advance from Ticket master or $7 at the door, Staff Writer Who says rock music has to be loud to be good? The Boston band Treat Her Right is proving it doesn't The four-man group with the stripped-down sound has become a big underground attraction by demonstrating that less is more.

"When we first began rehearsing together, we knew what we didn't want to be," recalls drummer Billy Conway of the act's 1985 genesis. "We'd all been in harder rock bands with the big amps. "There's no sense being on a stage if you cant hear clearly what everybody else is doing. "So the first thing we did was play softly. It sorta clicked." And how.

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