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Show RCViCWS Forum 10 September 21, 1993 Local Musicians Strut Their Stuff With Summer Releases William Athcy Forum Staff Writer The local music scene can never get enough publicity. This is only a small sample of locally produced and recorded music released during the summer. Any of these are recommended purchases. They are cheaper than national product, and the purchase stimulates the local economy. this album is a recording with elk ements of folk, country and feapresent. The most outstanding ture of the album is the clarity and brightness of the production. The sound is exceptional. Butts divided the tape into a pop-roc-k side and a country side. Try Love Like Folk Utah competition for my favorite song on the Folk Utah CD from Dave and Carla Eskelsen with an uptempo Point of the Mountain. Not to slight any of the other artists, but I hope both Toups and the Eskelsens put out a full length soon. Folk Utah! Songwriters Sampler Local Music Records All acoustic with the knowledgeable touch of producer Jay Toups, this sampler is long overdue. The Intermountain Acoustic Music Association has championed acoustic music for years, and until recently the music seemed to be lost in an under- singer-songwrit- lite-roc- I have one complaint with the CD. The songwriter is the only person credited, more credit should be given to those local musicians helping out with backing music and vocals. and Only A Fool are standout songs on side one. Butts background includes stints in the Jack Quist Band and a tour of Texas in a band with K.W. Tumbow, now the drummer for Chris LeDouxs band. Side two, the country side is my favorite. Come With Me Now features some of Toups best picking. In My Own Way has Butts laying down some deep, ringing, country bass along with his acoustic guitar lines. The country songs ;rank with anything currently enjoying success on the radio. This tape doesnt sound local. Bryan Butts . No Stone Unturned Bryan Butts played with The Bel Airs and The Metrognomes. He is cur- - ground deeper than anything represented on the SLUG compilation. spend far too much time on the harder edge of the underground and for me, the CD is a refreshing change of pace. My favorite songs mostly feature female songwriters and vocalists, all include harmony or backing vocals, and the backing instruments include flute, mandolin, bass and fiddle , not just solo I acoustic Butts songwriting and the musi- cians hes gathered to back him are exceptional. guitar. Kate MacLeods song, The Finest Of English Ladies, is one of the best on the album. It is done in an old fashioned a style with an old fashioned topic house, built by hand, awaits a bride from across the sea. MacLeodsvoiceisbacked by strummed guitar and clear, chiming mandolin. Amy Jacobs title, Small Town Blues, is another showcase for two lovely Utah voices with uncredited female harmony, banjo and bass. Doug CD out. His Wintch has a new Drugstore Cowboy serves as a teaser, an encouragement to pick up a copy of his complete work. The Jay Toups has a jazzy sound reminiscent of an early Oregon record, before the new age. His song, Howl at the Moon, fits a modem folk mold. The bass and an unearthly flute give the song a minimalist dissonance not found in the discs other selections. The Jay Toups song gets some stiff ng n-i-g-e- y Daughters of the Nile's self-title- Bryan Butts releases "No Stone Unturned." rently a member of the Convertibles. No Stone Unturned is his first solo the alrelease. Butts bum in his home studio. Dave Orgill plays electric guitar. Jay Toups is on the banjo and mandolin, and Kristen Merrill sings background vocals. Randee Levine Cathey contributes her lyrics to three songs. RESERVE self-produc- ed OFFICER S' TRAINING CORPS ONE COURSE THAT COULD CHANGE if 4v: A ' d album. Stare down at our tiny eyesnever see the fear they hold inside Daughters of the Nile This tape comes pxkaged without gaze down at you odditya s I rip these shrink wrap, enclosed by a thin strip of legs from you body never hearthe sound diblack ribbon, sealed with red wax. God, of your tiny cries. (The spelling is I hated to break the seal on it. Forces of rectly from the lyric sheet) The music darkness forced my hand, I needed the accompanying the lyrics is strangely reminiscent of Queen.music. Sarcasm aside, the Daughters of the casThe First time I listened to the Nile have recorded an entertaining piece sette it gave me a sick headache, I vomited. Not content with one experience, I of music. The songs on side one tend to their welcome with their placed the thing in my tape player for a overextend and overly contrived vocals. Side second round. This time I prepared. Clad length The songs are shorter. only in black crotchless panties and black two is preferable. Balsocks, clutching a box filled with my I think they copped the opening to ancing Stones from Led Zeppelin, and entire collection of HJP. Lovecraft novels and a leather bound copy of the . the title and the chanting bring Necromonican, I turned out all the lights, Stonehenge to mind. Whatever, bible lit some black candles and opened a bottle thumpers avoid this tape, doomsday is of Mad Dog 2020. Wine and candles are here, you dont need any more convincthe only proper setting for this mood ing. Daughters of the Nile will open for one of the true kings of darkness, Rozz music. Make no mistake, the Daughters of Williams of Christian Death, when he the Nile have done the job they set out to plays Kingsbury Hall on October 2. This do. 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