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91 1: Sunday, Dec. 7, 1980 Philadelphia Inquirer This week in poprock Anyhow, it was not punk in any sense of the word v. He fiddled while the Spectrum rocked Fiddler Charlie Daniels managed to engineer one of the most successful country-to-rock "crossover" campaigns of the 1970s. He won so many cityfolk converts to his down-home-type music that his 1980 audience is a Spectrum-sized one. And the Spectrum is where the drawling singer appeared last Sunday evening, delivering a two-hour show that covered the last five years of his recording history and an ample dose of his recently released album "Full Moon." It must be said that Daniels doesn't work all that hard.

Toward the end of the concert, he finally breaks out his fiddle and picks up the tempo for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," "Orange Blossom Special" and "Cumberland Mountain Number Nine," among other pickin' tunes. Before then, he sings some but lets his three harmony singers, five horns, two drummers, two keyboardists, bassist and guitarist do most of the work. All of this doesn't mean that Daniels shortchanges i rs- 1 i itfi." ri- if- 1 JfK' U'T- i it3- 01 Mi. iij 1 Charlie Daniels: Now he packs 'em in his audience. The sets are longer than those of most country performers, and if Daniels tends to let those around him show what they can do, we must remember that the act is billed as the Charlie Daniels Band.

Daniels seems to be very aware that his records and tickets are selling so well because he has surrounded himself primarily with rockers. It is they who give tunes like "In America," "El Toreador," "Lonesome Boy From Dixie," "Legend of Wooley Swamp," "Birmingham Blues" and other songs their power, punch and popular appeal. Edgar Koshatka Seven years ago, the Average White Band was, but now it certainly isn't any more By Jack Lloyd Inquirer Entertainment Writer When Joey Wilson gave up the folk circuit about a year and a half ago, added an electric guitar to his arsenal of instruments and began playing small clubs in the Philadelphia area with his new group, Joey the Pets, he was lumped Into the punk-rock set. But what kind of punk rocker goes home at night and listens to-Tony Bennett records? Wilson, as it turns out never was a punk rocker. "We played loud, but that was about the only connection with punk," said Wilson, who was born and raised in Philadelphia's Fairmount section.

"The music was more pop than punk. Kind of like the songs on the album. And I guess that held me back, playing those places where the people expected to hear punk rock." The album in question is Wilson's debut release for Modern Records, "Going Up." And more than a few of those who have heard the release figure that's exactly where Wilson is heading, up. "Going Up" was produced in New York by Jimmy Destri, who is ordinarily employed as the keyboards player with Blondie. The songs were all written by Wilson, who also provides most of the strong lead guitar contributions, an impressive effort considering that he has been playing electric guitar for so short a time.

Wilson will be doing it live when he appears with his new band at the Bijou Cafe on Friday and Saturday nights. Another Philadelphia act, $20 a night, so I guess he knew what he was doing." Ultimately, another friend hooked Wilson up with Paul Fishkin, another Philadelphia native who was involved in the development of Bear-sville Records. At the time, Fishkin, who had managed an early Philadelphia rock group called American Dream, was in the process of forming a new label, Modern Records, in collaboration with Danny Goldberg. And he was immediately impressed with Wilson's demo tape. "About a month later, Paul came down to Philadelphia with some people to catch one of my shows," Wilson said.

"The funny thing is as soon as word got around that Paul was interested in signing me, everyone became interested. There were offers from Stiff Records and Chrysalis and some others. "But I liked the idea of going with Modern. It's a small label. Right now I'm the only act, and the plan is that they won't have any more than three acts at one time.

So you know that the label will be doing everything it can to help." Bringing Blondie's Destri in to produce Wilson's LP did not result in an instantaneous union of chemistry. "I don't think he was too crazy about the material at first," Wilson noted. "But then he changed his mind and said, 'Yeah, these are pretty good After that, everything went smoothly." Mostly, the songs are rockers, produced with a full-blown instrumental sound. Joey Wilson He's a Tony Bennett fan, yet Kenn Kweder and the Secret Kidds, will also be appearing. Starting on the folk club circuit back in the early 1970s, playing such spots as the Main Point in Bryn Mawr and the Bottom Line in New York, Wilson developed a small but loyal following with his appealing voice and interesting repertoire of original material.

The transition toward rock 'n' roll came about "kind of on a dare," Wilson noted. "A friend of mine was promoting the Cramps at Grendel's Lair, and we got to talking about their music. He suggested that I put a band together and I decided to try it. "So I put the band together in 2V2 weeks, and I guess that's the way we sounded. It was not that good.

But we started playing a lot of the clubs around Philly. Especially the Hot Club. David Carroll (who operated the now-defunct Hot Club) had us all the time. Of course, he only gave us It was seven years ago when the Average White Band, which appeared at the Bijou Cafe last Friday and Saturday, made its Philadelphia debut at the same club. The audience then was considerably smaller and less enthusiastic than the last one; but the band was the same, except for one member, and its music had the same direction.

It was an unlikely combination: six musicians from Scotland who performed American-style rhythm and blues and soul music with a verve and vitality that was to become the envy of many American groups, black and white. The humorous, tongue-in-cheek name added to the mystique, even if it hardly helped in the radio airplay in the early days. Many rock stations wouldn't play them because they played the wrong kind of music; and many black-oriented soul stations wouldn't either because they didn't think the band's name was so funny. Time and a big hit called "Pick Up the Pieces" ended that. It was obvious, after hearing it once or twice, that the band was far from average.

The death of the group's drummer forced the band to seek a replacement, a black American drummer named Steve Fer-rone. The others in the troupe are vocalist-guitarist Hamish Stewart, vocalist-bassist Alan Gorrie, saxophonist Malcolm Duncan, keyboardist-saxophonist Roger Ball and guitartist Onnie Mclntyre. At the Bijou, the band performed many cuts from its new album, "Shine," including "Let's Go Round Again" and "Our Time Has Come." Played also were older classics, such as "Why," "Cloudy," "I'm the One," "Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Pick Up the Pieces." The genre has come a long way in the last few years, and AWB is still one of its prime exponents. Edgar Koshatka at Top-selling records "Mctida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts retails for $15.00, well sell it to you for only David Schlessinger Encore Books fes Jim tf'fl xe 1 1 ixrrm htm mmm The most delectable book we yet have had from the author of the delectable (and now classic) Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts and Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies. This book, all chocolate, all desserts, contains 448 pages of recipes plus valuable information on ingredients and equipment.

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