Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 82

wwwrawarawwwrayNrwfW4snwvwwwrarayrairaraenwwfeir'rw yvwiiniwwwiRWimwnw) H6 Sunday October 12 1997 Richmond Tunea-Ofepatrii two opening acts put out worthy first albums country singer with just the right amount of rough edge to his soaring tenor voice Guitarist Charlie Kelly backed a number of big acts makes the most of his shot in the spotlight turning out tightly focused sizzling guitar leads at every turn And the group true to tradition can stack vocal harmonies to the heavens and it does so at every opportunity Rather than drawing from Faron Young Porter Wagoner or any of the patriarchs of early country the Buffalo Club is a descendant of a newer breed If Poco hadn't splintered if the Eagles turned to rock if Crosby Stills Nash Young had decided that "Teach Your would be their signature sound this might have happened sooner But time is a matter of chance and circumstance and defies explanation And who really cares anyway The Buffalo Club is best and proudest standard-bearer of that once-nascent strain of American musk known as countryrock And doing all those long-haired country boys who preceded them proud AAAVi UWSTA Bridge Frank Stewart Save the last dance but not the last tramp MMMi played your last BBI trump have made I North remarked "Let the angel Gabriel play toe Last South said swing at least one of mine for a rainy' West took two spades and led a third spade letting East ruff away queen South ovenuffed led a diamond to dummy's king and returned the ten of trumps for a finesse West won and got out with a trump South drew frumps but refused to part with his last trump He took the ace king and queen of dubs hoping for a 3-3 break and a diamond dis-card on the 13th club When West discarded South finessed with the jack of diamonds but West took the queen defeating the contract diamond finesse was a heavy South claimed "I knew the man started with six spades three hearts and two dubs hence only two GIVING CREDIT Sherri Austin doesn't need to trade on her looks a tremendous talent with a Sno afcutn a ID INr CfMlIe gems put to honest straightforward country music The production puts all the right contemporary touches in the right places laying out the perfect tableaux for Austin to paint her pictures on Not since KT Oslin took word pictures of everyday life to an art form 10 years ago has an artist sung sad but funny lines like: "In the parking lot I saw two cowboys Fighting for a handicapped spaceSo what is a girl to do now boysTo make sense of this place" "One Solitary is a plaintive love-lost ballad that gives Austin the chance to show some of her influences She cites country royalty lax retta Lynn Dolly Parton and Skeet-er Davis as having had an impact on her throughout her youth and it shows in the best of ways With a crystalline purity perfectly suited to the '90s sound pipes are still drenched in the rich country soul of her famous forebears Austin speaks powerfully to women about women's lives trials and triumphs But at the same time her truths go beyond a single gender and ultimately speak to the state of any heart looking for love And not a song in the bunch anything less than excellent Opening for superstar Tracy Lawrence on Saturday will be two newcomers Sherri Austin 'and the Buffalo Club a look at the music from each act's debut album -Words" Shontf Austin (Arista) Frotn the first lines of this album's first song "Lucky in Love" Austin announces she is a talent to be reckoned with Describing a series of romantic losers die points to one in particular who "was pretty as a picture on his motorbikeHe never met a mirror that he didn't And it only Austin a 26-year-old native of Australia who has been singing country music since childhood relocated to Nashville a few years ago As writer or co-writer of seven of her album's 10 songs she is a woman with a lot to say and a wonderful voice with which to say it The collection is filled with lyrical a Perhaps the greatest compliment I could pay in this day where a female singer's navel often matters more than her musk is that Austin is a very pretty woman who need for a moment to trade on her looks a tremendous talent with a fine new album to her credit And the stuff lasting careers are made of fe Afefe -The Buffalo The Buffalo Club (Rising Tide) Anyone wondering whatever happened to the Eagles or Restless Heart need not wonder any longer That classic countryrock sound has metamorphosed into the JUMBLE STAMPS AND COINS Jimmy Packard Women in Military Service commemorative out Saturday Unscramble these six Jumbles one letter to each square to form six ordinary words TREOTT I til at si le ty til Ml it hi tl ol hi hi it ai Fi Ol VI FI at nr sr tl a is ai ti I 2 SI tl ii OiWIHbun Mtda Smmcn Ik WL HynS Tracy Lawrence Skerrii Austin and the Buffalo Club perform Saturday from noon to 6 pm at Virginia Afo-tonports Park in Dinwiddie Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door For details call (804)330-9555 open a new world of coin collecting to enthusiasts Although important to history geography and economics they are more often recognized as works of art this book approaches ancient Greek numismatics from that perspective The 200-page 6-inch by 9-inch hardcover work is indexed and contains more than 200 photographs tables and charts to aid in identity The reference deciphers coins from the Archaic Classical and Hellenistic periods and explains and illustrates coinage characteristics and differences "Ancient Coin Collecting Volume II Numismatic Art of the Creek is available at coin hobby and book stores or may be obtained for $2495 plus $325 shipping from' Krause Publications Book Dept QNR7 700 State Street Iola Wis 54990-0001 or by calling (800) 258-0929 Club meetings Tuesday's meeting of the Old Dominion Postcard Club will include last-minute planning for the club's annual show and sale the second weekend in November The club meets at 7 pm in the Jewish Community Center 5403 Monument Ave The Rkhmdnd Stamp Club will meet Tuesday at 7:30 pm in the Virginia War Memorial building at the north end of the Robert Lee bridge Visitors are welcome Buffalo Club and it sounds as great as ever Heart-bending lead vocals come courtesy of Tom Hemby once lead singer for contemporary Christian mainstays the Imperials But what really distinguishes these guys from just another pack at harmony-singing guitar-twanging cowpokes is great material Drawing from some of best writers the Club wraps its formidable vocal and instrumental talents around a relentlessly engaging hook-a-minute bunch of songs Hemby well-known to Imperials fens is a natural-bom God-gifted First day service may be obtained by sending envelopes addressed to yourself or others with the stamps affixed to First Supersonk Flight Postmaster 1320 Payne Ave Edwards Calif 93523-9991 no later than Nov 13 wwwJwp The Bureau of Engraving and Printing home page may be used for just about anything these days from researching past currency issues to procurement of government business by small companies People logging onto http: wwwbeptreasgov will find information on the newly-designed $100 notes and a close look at the artist who created them and the progress of the new $50 note Not just for trivia lovers tourists and shoppers business people may obtain information on government business opportunities Coin and stamp collectors may chat with one another via The Forum Creak coinage The second part of a six-volume series on ancient coins "Ancient Coin Collecting: Numismatic Art of the Greek World" is designed to FIVES "ORE GALORE" By RICHARD THOMA1 ACROSS 1 Himtoayan goet 5 Bduhka 10 Takas nom hurrisdy 14 Rkn 18 Msybsrry 83 85 86 87 86 89 90 92 WHAT THE CAPTAIN OF THE VACATION SHIP HAR Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer as suggested by the above cartoon IN THE CIRCLES BELOW Is an HS A late addition to the 1997 stamp calendar will make its debut Saturday at the dedication ceremony for the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at 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