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The Columbia Record Music, Things To Do Entertainment The State Weekend To Go Places Friday, August 24, 1984 Roland Haynes Jr. Jazzman Haynes heads for greener pastures in West Germany soon Columbia isn't an easy city to earn a living by playing music, but there probably aren't too many places outside the big cities where professional musicians find work regularly. So musicians come and go and one of the latest ones to leave will be Roland Haynes Jr. Haynes, chosen as one of The Columbia After "Ten Record's for The Future" a few Dark years heading ago, for is Frankfort, West By Pat Berman Germany. However, before he departs next week, a farewell benefit concert has been arranged at 8 p.m.

Wednesday in Keenan High School's new theater. The concert, sponsored by Benedict College Junior Alumni, York Rite Shriners of Columbia, WDPN-FM, and Galaxy Tours, will benefit the Shriners and Junior Alumni's Sickle Cell Anemia and Youth funds. Tickets, at $6.50, may be purchased at Papa Jazz, Joyful Alternative and School Kids Records or at the door. Haynes, known mostly for jazz and pop stylings, produced, composed, arranged and played flute, saxophone and keyboards for a number of different bands. Columbia clubgoers probably knew him best for his Roland Haynes Jr.

Phenix band. "I've done everything I could do here," Haynes said of his own performing and work with other musicians. "It took all my energy to promote and put people together." Understandably, Haynes expects European audiences to be more receptive to his work. European audiences have long been known to be bigger fans of American jazz than most Americans. Haynes will be joined at Wednesday night's concert by pianist Ronnie Patterson, bassist Jesse Powers, guitarist Paul Ingbretsen, drummer Jimmy Brown, percussionist Thomas Moseley and singer Wesley McKelvey.

This is a fine lineup that pop and jazz lovers won't want to miss. 0 While Haynes will be greatly missed, another jazz and pop performer keeps the music alive and lively around town. The Terry Rosen Band with Rosen on guitar, vocalist Sue Rosen, bassist Frank Duvall and drummer Andy Watson have lined up nearly a week's worth of benefit gigs for different organizations. At 7 p.m. Monday the band plays at Babcock Center then moves to a 7 p.m.

Tuesday performance at Carolina Children's Home. At 7 p.m. Wednesday they play on the grounds of the Robert Mills House for the Sister Care Shelter and at 7 p.m. Thursday the band will be at the Cook residence, 2700 Wheat for Planned Parenthood. No admission will be charged for these concerts but donations will be accepted.

0 And now for something completely different. Battalion of Saints will be at the beat Tuesday night, and Seaboard will be at Strider's tonight. (See AFTER DARK, 4-B) Georgia will NORTH CAROLINA 75 Trail HIAWASSEE 76 Brasstown Bald Mtn. 75 Grandpa (255) HELEN 197 Old (356) Sautee 75 Store Wander to Edgefield Saturday to hear 'gentle' sounds of John Hartford By GENE ABLE Weekend Staff Writer John Hartford struck a chord in America's free-spirited soul when he came home from the movies one night and wrote "Gentle On My Mind." How many have aimed their cars past wheat fields, junkyards and clotheslines on the highway, letting the wistful lyrics and lively pace of that song take them along bittersweet memory lane and the avenue of wishful wandering? On Saturday they can wander over to Edgefield where Hartford will be performing his one-man show of singing, dancing and playing guitar, fiddle and banjo during the Uncle Tom's Farm-Red Hill Bluegrass Festival, located 14 miles west of Edgefield on S.C. 23.

Tickets are $8 today and $10 Saturday with children 12 and younger admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Other groups scheduled to perform are the Johnson Mountain Boys, String Fever, Lost and Found, Southern Land and Cattle Company, Flatbed, and the Carolina Rebels. The festival runs from noon Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. until midnight Saturday.

Hartford will be performing at 5 p.m. and again at 11 p.m. Saturday. Sure to be included in his performance will be at least one rendition of "Gentle On My Mind," a song that earned Hartford two Grammy Awards and Glen Campbell two more. Hartford was the first of more than 300 to record "Gentle On My Mind." But it took Campbell to turn it into a massive No.

1 hit on both country and pop charts. It was a twoway street, however, as the song launched Campbell headlong into a runaway career. The soft-spoken Hartford, always low-key even when he performed regularly on As for looking for gimmicks to mold a hit song around or writing for a particular artist, Hartford said, "I never did do that. I just write for the sake of the song; I don't try to tailor it." He wrote "Gentle On My Mind" one night after going to see the movie Dr. Zhivago.

The movie itself didn't provide the basis for the song, but it released some feelings about travel and wanderings that came out of his own experience. It's to Hartford's credit that he never tried to write a close copy of his most successful song, a sound-alike that might have been picked up to cash in on the immense se popularity of "Gentle On My Mind." Instead he continued to write songs about whatever he felt compelled to write songs about. If they made it, he went to the bank. But if they didn't, he took satisfaction in the writing of the song itself and what he would do with it in his own performances. Those who make it over to Edgefield John Hartford at the wheel Campbell's popular television show, still finds it hard to believe how one song could do so much for two "I've always been a Glen Campbell fan," he said in a recent telephone interview.

I'm glad he had his first hit with a song I wrote." Campbell was recording an album when he heard Hartford's recording of "Gentle On My Mind." "He heard my record, went out and bought it and put it on his album," Hartford said. "They told me recently it was the biggest seller in the BMI catalog." On top of that, "Gentle On My Mind" has been 3 played 4 million times on the air, more than any other country song. In succession that would take 22 years of non-stop playing. Among the other artists who had big success with the song were Dean Martin and Patti Page. Hartford, who never permits any of his songs to be tampered with for commercial reasons or otherwise, changed the lyrics a bit for Miss Page to "give it a female point of view." Although "Gentle On My Mind" gave Hartford financial security and some measure of fame, it did much more than that.

It permits him to retain the integrity of his music. Saturday will see more than a onedimensional performer. They will hear a man from Missouri who grew up "on old-time music and bluegrass" give a Mississippi River interpretation of that kind of music. It won't be a contrived performance either. John Hartford is a riverman who recently earned a top pilot rank for navigating on the Mississippi River.

When he was 15 he lied about his age and got a job on The Delta Queen, considered the royal ruler of the steamboats of the Mississippi. He has participated in the annual Golden Antlers race for paddlewheelers from Chattanooga to Louisville. Hartford's album Mark Twang was a salute of sorts to life on the Mississippi and to Mark Twain himself. It earned him his third Grammy in 1977. His latest album, Gum Tree Canoe, has just been released on the Flying Fish label.

It contains several original compositions by Hartford, a Civil War song and Hartford's interpretations of music previously performed by Janis Joplin and The Rolling Stones. Out of that album, "Piece Of My Heart" has debuted strong on the Billboard charts and a music video is being distributed to back it up. be on your mind when you savor mountain vistas 17 By GENE ABLE No one of normal appetite could eat all that is Weekend Staff Writer placed on the table, but that doesn't stop personable young men and women from inquiring if you'd like Most people discover the mountains of North another dish of this or that or a refill of your pint jar Georgia by accident, or not at all, choosing instead to with tea. make their mountain escapes to South Carolina, North Then when you're just about ready to explode, DILLARD Carolina or Tennessee. someone says, "Ready for dessert?" 28 Pine Mtn.

But just across the Chattooga River from South Who could resist blueberry cobbler with homemade Black Rock Mtn. Carolina's own mountain region is the southern ice cream? extreme of the Appalachian chain that trades on the The meal is $7.50 whether its lunch or dinner and appeal of its folklore, vistas, some surprisingly high everything is included in that price except tax. MT. CITY Welcome mountains, a quaint village here and there, and the In addition to ladling out great portions of delicious Center River vestiges of the back woods society that ensconced in food, most of which is grown on its own farm, Dillard Lake Burton 23 more if treated to the delights of country mountain a few miles of each other on U.S. 441 and U.S.

76. The The visitor who spends a weekend or a few days chalets, a an farm inn zoo and horseback riding. A are swimming Chattooga MT. REST in these the scenery. Georgia But mountains the and mountains palate valleys will will in savor long the the 18th remember experience century.

the even pool House adds is Dillard, a modern with Mountain touch. City moderate and rates. Clayton There are all also within SOUTH cooking that can be found in so many of the inns and main attraction of the area is a number of shops that CAROLINA roadhouses. deal in mountain crafts and foodstuffs. There's the Dillard House, for instance.

Famous for Near Mountain City is Black Rock Mountain State Lake Raburn its country fare, it sits on the side of a hill in Dillard, Park and Foxfire, an enterprise that deals in the WALHALLA just a few miles into Georgia across the Chattooga. gathering of material for the famous Foxfire books and Watts Mill The diner who wanders into the Dillard House for preserving mountain culture. On the slope of Black TALLULAH FALLS the first time might be puzzled that the only menu is Rock Mountain is a village of relocated log cabins, a chalk board in the foyer listing three kinds of meat barns, a trading post, a blacksmith shop and other old and about seven vegetables. log buildings all more than 100 years old. 1441 76 The for puzzlement But heightens moments when no later order all is taken Finding Foxfire is a bit of a treasure hunt, but if except beverages.

questions you are successful the greeting is warm, and Foxfire Tugaloo WESTMINSTER are unloads answered dishes of when all a three young meats man and with all a large seven tray people will gladly tell you what they're doing and give HOLLYWOOD 02123 vegetables as well as a basket of cornbread and biscuits River a tour of the grounds. and a dish of apple preserves. (See GEORGIA, 10-B) Staff Blustrati by Pam Walter 197.