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The Daily Reporter from Dover, Ohio • Page 26

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Dover, Ohio
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26
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Pejt M. Taicif Pom. April 1MM5 TERM AND THE PIRATES Wilder Disc By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures Writer HE BEST of the new folk albums are of 2 varieties: authentic and topical. "John Jacob Miles, Folk is a release in RCA'S vintage series of songs recorded by Niles in 1939, '40 and '41. These are "Child collected by Dr.

Francis James Child in the late 1880s. Most were found in the southeastern United States, transplanted unchanged from England and Scotland. They include "Love Henry," "Jimmy Randall" (in the Midwest it's "Lord "The Ballad of Barberry Ellen" and "Mary Hamilton." Niles sings in a high, piercing "mountain tenor," which is hard to get used to. After you listen awhile, you don't want to hear "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" sung by anybody else. "Introducing the Beers Family," Columbia, also is a worthy addition of performers of old folk songs.

Robert Beers learned songs, the fiddle and the dulcimer from his grandfather, a champion fiddler. His wife adds a high, small, clear voice. Teenage daughter Martha joins in, vocally and instrumentally. From New Year, Montana population 10, the family recently moved to Petersburg, N. Y.

Beers studied music at Northwestern University. He collected some of their songs, wrote a few and some were collected by John Jacob Niles. "Pickin' and Fiddlin'," Elektra, features the Dillards with Byron Berline, on a novocal LP of country dance tunes reeled off on fiddles. When Woody Guthrie was writing folk songs, the country's problems included depression, dust bowl, migrants. He wrote about those, and today's writers of folk songs are writing their views of today's problems, especially the need to end war.

One of the most striking is Phil Ochs, who hat a new album, performing his own songs, on Elektra, "I Ain't Marching Anymore." Ochs is an angry young man who knows how to be satiric. Interest lies in his lyrics; his music uses a repeat of the same tune, verse and chorus, verse and chorus, in oldtime folk style. He sings the title song; his catchy "Draft Dodger "In the Heat of the Summer," about the Harlem riots; and goes on with songs blasting capital punishment, the assassination of JFK, bigotry in Mississippi and labor unions too settled to aid Civil Rights. Mike Spoelstra signs songs he wrote in a nasal voice, chording his own accompaniment on a 12-string guitar on Elektra's "Five and Twenty Questions." Effect is slightly monotonous. Spoelstra's subjects are more often personal than large issues.

"Ballad of 12th Avenue" is the tragedy of one family. "On the Road Again" apparently is about himself. "White Winged Dove" tells about a child's gift of a toy gun and teaching of the urge of kill. A new label, Village Gate Records, is making its bow with 4 LPs by talent which has appeared at the Village Gate in New York. "The New Wave," by the 5 New Wine Singers, is an off-on-the-right-foot start, a good selection of topical folk songs, well performed.

It includes "Trun Turn Turn" by Pete Seeger, "Who Killed Davy Moore?" by Bob Dylan and Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind." A male trio, the Moonshiners, less distinctive than the New Wine Singers, does a variety of folk songs on "Breakoutl" on Village Gate Records. The new company's other 2 initial releases are Spanish guitar and Russian melodies played in Dixieland. Mike Settle, Oklahoma-born folk composer who is better known as a performer, on the coffee house and college circuit, is showcased on "The Mike Settle Shindig," Reprise. Settle sounds as if his roots are in gospel. He sings his own "Bound for Zion," "Someone To Talk My Troubles To," and "Shenandoah," the latter with an overly loud girls choir.

Bob Dylan, leader of the young protest writers. is represented on a new RCA release, "Odetta Sings Dylan." In her deep, strong voice, Odetta sings 10 biting songs about the meaning of living and why of fighting. LEE, ARE YOU SPECULATING THAT rAUSWS A POLITICAL WA51JOJ THE'REASON' RPR THE AEFffAL' ATTACK ON THE HALPrTRACK 5CNT THE OUT OH THE WHAT WEKE TO Vt RE6ULAR INSPECTION RtfROLS CVTHE PIPELINE BETWEEN fJBI ONiy A Fftf OUTIN THS PS9WTF DAil FLAGG By DOB Sherwood AND UTfff, HAMILTON HEARS FOOM AN ADIRONDACK JIM, WE GOT A REPORT FROM A PILLINS STATION UP THINK YOUR 6I6TER HAS HELLO, STATE LAOXAMPINEJUSTLEPI My GAS XEAH, A STATE TROOPER SUB-STATION. BEEN SPOTTED HEART OF JULIET JONES By Sin Draki COSTS OVER' SEVEN 6's! FLASH GORDON By DM Bwiy PAH--ME, A GENERAL, sfSiA wiw ALIEN HAPN'T WOUIPPE WORK FIT FOR ROBOT WO THIS WORK HAPN'T USH? LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE By HweU Grai WEU.VOU WONT KNOWEO IT COOtl VOU NEVER WA6 MUCH FOR MMON'A WELL, WISH MCLUCKl EXPECT ME BACK WHEN OECLAPJf THrtT'LATE BOUNTY XOOGETTHBRf. H0i8 COOLO KREC FOOLO'VOUReKLF.

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