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2E FridayApril 281 989 Star Tribune Willie Murphy takes on new image III no more Bees' he's Mr. Mature INTRODUCING: U.SJXA. CHOICE STEAKS. I i I jrr JJ PONDEROSA'S GREAT STEAK GUARANTEE Ponderosa guarantees the quality of your steak and the way it is cooked. If for any reason your steak isn't everything you want it to be, we'll make it right or give you your money back.

"JUST TRY NOTIVTHESEJTEAKS." HURRY COUPON EXPIRES 513W $1 Afl AFV Popular music Jon Bream his "Mr. Mature" tunes during his solo gigs because the multi-instrument arrangements are integral parts of the compositions. "I can't do them justice on solo piano," he said. "I owe it to the record label and myself not to play them." Quick spins Pere Ubu is in town making a video of "Love, Love, Love," an old tune, with pioneering video director Chuck StatJer, but the band has a new album, "Cloudland," due at the end of May Stickman, longtime Twin Cities barroom favorites, will break up after a final gig June 2 at the Cabooze. Drummer Brad Matt-son will join Mile One.

Prince will have at least six songs on the sound track to "Batman," which will be released June 23 in conjunction with the movie starring Michael Keaton. Prince is busy mixing the recordings at Paisley Park Studios. Shaun LaBelle, who used to play locally with the Steeles and the Players, has been hired as musical director for Jody WaWey's three-month concert tour. He has enlisted fellow Twin Cities musicians Bam Bam Morgan on drums and Darryl Boudreaux on percussion. LaBelle will play bass New on the local record rack are the Selves' LP, "Cocktails and Plenty of 'Em" on Susstones, Dare Force's "Firepower" on Logic and Soul Asylum's overdue "Clam Dip and Other Delights" on TwinTone.

The lineup is set for the ninth annual Minnesota Music Awards May 11 at the Orpheum Theater. Scheduled performers include the Jets, Michael Johnson, Slave Raider, Rupert's Orchestra, Chmieliewski Funtime Family Band, Giorge Pet-tus and Orquesta Sabroson. Boys Club has recorded a tune, "This Could Take All Night," for the summer flick "Karate Kid III." One of the first singles from that sound track will be "Under Any Moon," featuring Elizabeth Wolfgramm of the Jets and Glenn Medeiros. Meanwhile, a Jets single, "You Better Dance," will spotlight Hainie Wolfgramm. The Jets album, "Believe," will be in stores in July.

Willie Murphy has a brand new band and bag. If you go to see him tonight at the Guthrie Theater, don't expect solo blues-styled piano like the music Murphy offers weekly at the 400 Baron the West Bank. Don't expect the kind of jazzy he plied with Willie the Bees, his top-notch dance-oriented band that broke up four years ago. Expect Willie Murphy as Mr. Mature.

"Mr. Mature" is the title of Murphy's new album on Atomic Theory Records. The recording is about as eclectic and intriguing as an hour of music on the alternative-music radio station Cities 97. "Some people think I'm only a blue's guy," said Murphy, "and I went out of character on this (record and concert) to reassert that I like to do my own stuff. Although the Bees did originals, a lot of them were written to be rhythm tunes.

The. songwriting aspect here is more serious from solo blues to ballads to big rhythm things. It's thick musically. It's not instantly accessible. It's more adult music.

All the. midlife-crisis songs are there for, all these 40-year-old people wondering what it's all about." Mucphy, 45, has been rehearsing a nine-member band for several weeVs. It's a one-time-only group featuring vocalists Melanie Rosales and'Margaret Cox, both members of Dr. Mambo's Combo; keyboar-dist'Lisa Krieger of Ipso Facto; drummer Michael Bland, who plays with Mambo's Combo, Mubbla Buggs and others; bassist Jim An- ton of Beat the Clock; percussionist Jose James, formerly of Willie the -Bees; guitarist Billy Franze of Mambo's Combo, and violinist Wendy Ultan, who free-lances. Murphy will "sing and play guitar and keyboards.

Mis performance tonight also will include a collaboration with poet Boy McBride and something that hCpromises will be dramatic. 'Ne always wanted to introduce theater into my act," he said, declining to elaborate on his plans, opening the concert will be the eccentric and eclectic Crops, a band thit also records for Atomic Theory, the label Murphy started in 1985 to put out his solo piano al- hum "Piann Hits Uillia Mnrnhu Willie Murphy Hits Piano." Murphy said he seldom performs T'EONE, N.T. STBIP OR RIEETE DINNisR halrH nntato and Your complete dinner include! baked potato and Pbnderosa's All'You'Can-Eat Grand Buffet Cannot OOOO ANY SIZE Tk. 1 unnUnaHon I I mtnn PONDEROSA SStl ll I I 'S Willie Murphy It's another festival with food, mu sic and fireworks: The World Series of Ribs will feature Kenny Kool the Gang, Eddie Money and a slew of local musicians Memorial Day weekend at Harriet Island in St. Paul.

The Allman Brothers are rumored to be reuniting, and they will be honored with a six-album Polygram Records retrospective that includes a pile of previously unreleased con cert recordings uouia mere oe another Traveling Wilburys album with Del Shannon replacing the late Roy orbfson? Last week, oroison became the first dead artist since Elvis Presley to have two albums in the Top a simultaneously, witn "Mystery Girl" at No. 5 and the Wilburys album at No. 4. Virgin Records reportedly has enough new Orbison material recorded for at least two more albums. Ringo Starr is considering his first solo concert tour.

The talk is that sidemen will be Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jack Bruce, Billy Preston and Clarence demons Jasmine Guy of TV's "A Different World" will appear on Warner Bros. Records tms summer. Rykodisc, the CD-oriented label with distribution headquarters in Minneapolis, has garnered the CD rights to David Bowie's old albums on hua Records in stm Be Loving You," the first recording re leased by the Ink Spots in 35 years, is available by johnny smith and the New Ink Spots. Smith joined the group in 1938. The new album includes a version of Prince's "Pur ple Rain." VW0 "Every dinner includes Baked Potato and rbnderosa's Grand Buffet.

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