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Show WEEKEND STANDARD-EXAMINER FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1996 FEATURES EDITOR: 625-4270 Remembering the e Music ot Run for you friends keep the spirit of the Old Westalive PREVIEW— > WHAT: Cowboy Standard-Examiner staff JubdIee >» WHO: Don on Edwardsis trying to preserve what's left of the Old West. He can’t do anything about the cowboys and hugecattle drives. Edwards, Waddie Mitchell and The Sons of the San Joaquin > WHEN: 7:30p.m Saturday > WHERE: At the Festival of the American West, the Spectrum building Utah State University Logan > TICKETS: $15 Available by calling (800) 249-2583 or Smith's Tix, (800 888-TIXX They're gone. But he spurs their stories and music onward, singing about the open spaces, long trails, bad weather, loneliness and dust, with a steady hand and sturdy voice. He's been doing it for more than 35 years. “T love whatit represents,” Edwards said. “I wanted to growup to be a cowboy. I pursuedit all - anything I could do — to be a cowboy. I guessI just never outgrewit.” Well, he’s 57, soit’s not likely to happen now. Edwards sings in Logan Saturday night at the Festival of the American West. The show, called “CowboyJubilee,” also features cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell and The Sons of the San Joaquintrio. The week before the concert, during a telephone conversation from his homein Fert Worth, Texas, Edwards talked about his art. He was about to board a tour bus bound for Billings, Mont., where the CowboyJubilee would entertain recreational vehicle owners attending a SINGING PRAISES OF THE PAST: For more than 35 years Don Edwards has been glorifying the old cowboy life through music. He conventionthere. This son of a vaudeville musician started playing guitar about the time he was 10, but he didn’t plan on playingit 4D Shakespeare 4D Kill” By SUSAN SNYDER Western warbler T Movies John Grisham's “A Time Don Edwards and He spends about 200 days a year on tours that have spanned the United States, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and many parts of Europe. It’s a lot of work, runningall over the globe promoting a musical genre that is on the fringe and glorifies a lifestyle no one really lives anymore. Edwards concedes there probablyare easier ways to makea living. But he can’t imagine a better one. Cowboymusic is in danger offading awaylike the last of the great roundups. “We want to keepit alive. That's mainly what we're herefor,” Edwards said. “Everybody's got to makea living, but I doit for the love of the music.” es: H.O.R.D-E. hits is com ng 7D HOT TICKETS tec See 2D for details ontickets for these and other events Fatpaw. Aug. 16, Salt LaKe The Spin Doctors. Aug. 26 Sait Lake Disco Drippers. Aug. 30 and 31, Salt Lake Toby Keith, Ty Herndon and Tracy Lawrence. Aug 7-10, Weber County Fair Monkee-ing around one more time the Monkeesabove), i.é., Micky tok and former met in performsin Logan Saturday night at the Festival of the American West He wanted to be a cowboy like old-time movie hero Tom Mix He moved to Texas, where he tried the rodeothing and worked on ranches. He took a job as an actor-singer-stuntmanat Six Flags Over Texas in 1961, when he was about 22. Three years later, he recordedhis first album, forever trading the lariat for a guitar. forever. “T still keep my hand in the ranching end ofit, but I don’t consider myselfa record a new album to go out on the Rhino label “Doing the album gave us a lot of satisfaction and a sense of brotherhood,” Jonestells a reporter from Entertainment Weekly. “We ate lunch and dinner together for a month, and weall put up.a quarter share of the tab each time cowboy. I'm a musician and a singer,” he at all the old cowboy songs that had made Nobody was in charge, nobody said. He tried making it in Nashville's him happy as a kid. Pretty soon, he found was inferior he was spending as muchtime poring over big-time country music scene, but he soon library books and boxes of dusty old figured out it wasn’t for him. Thosefolks seemed to want more ofhis soul than his music, he said. “Commerce-was getting ahead. of the art. There wasall the politics. ... I just got disillusioned with it,” Edwards said. He looked forward by looking back a couple of days early for the Logangig and hangs around a coupleofdays afterward, but not to see the festival. He spends it in the special collections archives 78-rpm records as he was practicing Edwards confessed he usually shows up >» See COWBOY/4D WHAT'S NEw For those who need more Olympics A handful of adventurous tecnies is watching this years Olympics on PCs, thanks to a new technology ogy ccalled intercast. But vho can't afford the chir videc Card and other accessories, the -aoD Bask in summer memories at Layton Heritage Museum By LINETTE GAMBOA curator found these in an old barn behind Lagoon. Standard Examiner Davis Bureau “Unfortunately,” Hansensaid, AYTON - The “Lagoon didn't think to save colorful hopscotch these.” pattern Alan Hansen But Hansen did, along with sketched in front of the old photos of Lagoon. The black Layton Heritage Museum serves and white stills line the walls, as a welcome mat to the fun highlighting almost a century of inside. activities at Lagoon. The museum's latest exhibit, There are shots of children “Looking Back at Summer Fun,” standing tippy-toed at the Peter offers a chance for visitors to Peter Pumpkin Eater's giant walk into summer memories. puimpkin snack bar in the 1950s. And PREVIEW MResdoors are portraits of _—_—stséRCC. : and-to the left hundreds of people > WHAT: thére’s a vibrant ‘Looking Back at display of Lagoon’s past. a Lagoon beganitslife Hours are 1-7.p.m. long,” curator Alan Mondaythrough Hansen said ofthe Saturday Farmington > WHERE: Layton Heritage amusement park, “it’s part of the Museum, 403 N summer area.” Wasatch Drive, Hansen swapped Layton an. old, dustydisplay > TICKETS: No admission charge For information, cali. 546-3524 Of the history of Layton schools with the whimsical pieces : of Lagoon Panels from two old rides border the square display set up with red, yellow and greenlight panels that sit atop the bright red display walls © attract passersby Two rides a couple of blue kiddie boats and a plastic horse pulling a yellow carriage sit in the center of the display. Hansen 2PPropriate because from a A pavilion with intricate latticework was homefor dancingat the Lake Park resort, located = the point : é ton. way, Bay, arming . a. - wm VE in 1886. That pavilion ba moved inland to oyeany oa called Lagoon, Spot in 1893, shortly after the lake receded There were eight beachresorts lining the Great Salt Lake, most in Davis County before the historic Saltair was born in 1893 Thousands of people flooded the resorts, slipping into thick, black wool swimsuits to bob in the lake. mo ery POOR COPY and ts on display through mid-September. community for so cn bien PWHEN:Exhibit “Lagoonhas been part ofthe cottons _ Summer Fun’ LAGOON HISTORY: (Left) This sign from Lagoon comes from back when patrons had to paya varying number of tickets for each nde (Below) This horse-drawn buggyfrom Lagoonis also On display at the Layton Heritage Museum ROBERT REGAN Standard-Examiner next best ming is Uv- ROM OLYMPIC GOLD: A100-Year History of the Summer Games The disk contains just about everything you need to know about the history, personalities and events of the modern Games, enhanced by the bells anc whistles associated with any quality CD-ROM You might want to impress folks by letting them know, for nstance, that tug-of-war was once an Olympic event andth the Brits were the perennia winners A “nations” section lists every participating country from Afghat uStan to Zimbabw The “athletes” section offers 100 biographies of the greates Olympians, plus stats on 16,000 medai winners Each game from 1896 to 1992 is thoroughly covered The CD-ROM is available for P< or Mac, about $40 EROELSAEEEEINESATERSeEERSE ToP RECORDS These were the top R&B singles of the week, according to Billboard magazine “| Can't Sleep Baby(if t),” R. Kelly 2. “You're Makin’ Me High ~ Let it Flow,” Toni Braxton 3. “Twisted,” Keith Sweat 4. “How Do U Want It - California Love,” 2 Pac featuring KC and JoJo 5. “Elevators (Me & You),” Outkast 6. “Only You,” 112 7. “Why | Love You So Much - Ain't Nobody,” Monica 8. “Loungin,” LL Cool . 9. “Kissin’ You,” Total 10, “Touch Me, Tease Me,” Case featuring Foxxy Brown Standard-Examiner staff and wire services |
