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Show Corkroom, Saturday Bodie music at U Renaissance Faire with his heds. I can't say that there is anything unique in that day when met Bodie Wagner, except that I dia. But find a park, an open field or a quiet bar and chances are that you might run into him too. Friday and Saturday nights in the new by GAYLAN NIELSON Chonicle Staff Bare feet, derby hat, harmonica wrapped across his face like a moustache, guitar hung from his stomach like an appendage and he was rhythmically beating the hell out of a make-shift bar at the 1 i A x I i, ... v i. '""" , '-lll.M ' ' ""S ,fo , : co f'SjyZ : I Sechor:d forac companiment. Bodie comes from population were young people from Antioch College Bodie grew up in a black ? one else: a little Dylan a Donavan and whole lot of other stu,f but now it is mostly his own He writes songs daily. He hasn done a lot of other things, but it hows. He and his fiddle (what he calls his guitar) have been traveling together all summer long playing tor meals, a bed or just a beer now and then. He makes me th nk a lot of Woody Guthrie. By the time Bodie has been around about 10 years he'll have a lot of music to carry around, except for one thing; it is all in his head, because he doesn't know how to write it down. He had been playing an awful long time before he ever knew what key he was playing in, and then he only learned because S4fc .mm he knew he was using a "C" harmonica har-monica or "G". I have never met anyone that was dissappointed in his music or in him. He is really a prize in both i . t i - ? j , : I , ' - i f, .T , . "7 y i St .v. P WiJn&i9AIiKBB kl.'-si.i! JjJ categories. He lamb and never sfc i gardless of the :r jb he sometimes feels, r-f" T ker and it shows Jry he is at peace win hno: world around him.,. Vel Whether he is r r ing songs about his ,nar children's songs oi-ias pies Rag," he te:;ucl rolls out of his go';:id that a deaf manwoi:1 Dl Bodie has jusl ; ' a Salt Lake for the lb: le 1 here for the lirsl tirr-ike he returned in Jo1, d has come back lit-lr01 phia Folk Festival -:,c,s Utah Bruce Phillips Jreb with John Prine at: a to Andy Cohen lo -l0ve next album. If theif:'e' that frighten him, r;ty fl mercial music and": fl pie would exploit lis-. I I own bills and the :: a losing himself in 6: i mediocrity. j Well at any rale f)t this weekend and p. w in the Cork room t lJJ3 Photo by Gaylan Nielson |