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Show w 10 toah - . Eatertabaeat SALT FLAT NEWS, MAY, 1972 BOOK REVIEW Dollars to Doughnuts in Nashville by KEN DONOGHUE (WINE EDITOR) THE NASHVILLE SOUND: Bright Lights and Country Music , Paul Hemphill , Pocket Books, N.Y. 1971, 201 p. From reading this report on Hillbilly Heaven, one learns what the Nashville sound really is: Its of dolthe resounding lars. If you don't believe it, start at one end of your Salt Lake City per-plin- k Pinot Noir, Cabernet using the names Chateau d'Yquem, dYquem. But fortunately for the sake of semantics he cant. Varietal labeling is a simpler affair. To bear a varietal label (a label with the name of the graipe from which the wine was made on it) at least 51 per cent of the grapes used must be of the type named on the label. Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, and tooffer. If the label bears the name of a grape, you should be getting the best America can produce. Why Californian grapes have European names is due to an interesting Hungarian, Agoston Haraszthy. But that story is for another time. For, although Regulation Number 4 does permit American wine growers to use some European geographical names it forbids them to use others. The Act prohibits American vintners from Junction, and a life of luxurious tension and hard work. At the core of this cultural milieu is the Grand Old Opry, which the sedate upper middle class of. Nashville once, hoped would turn out to be an opera with a etc. But after, the symphony, (ash registers began to ring louder and louder, they' threw in the sponge and went down for the needed painting. During these conflicts the children would run and hide in the bedroom closet 97 of the time. Now . . . the r . honest-to-goodne- ss appreciate Kitty Wells singing Honky Tonk Angel more than Lotte Lehman on the harpsicord. When a guy is driving home from Kennecott after a hard day running a crane, he gets a lift listening to Chet Atkins picking hell out of his guitar. Its that simple. Reviewed by Bookworm they can- Amuoui amazing statistic our unbiased team of clinical snoopers came up with was . . . after the aggressive factor in the household came toa 87 of grinding conclusion the time the head of the household and the mother figure or Ms. would quickly make-u- p and go to the bedroom and console each other in the manner society has placed a positive sanction on. Need a car ? hold would suggest the grass needed cutting or the garage count. What makes Nashville bigger every year? Look at it this way. When the driver of the extra long trailer and tractor highballing from Sacramento to Denver, is rolling across the Salt Flats in the middle of the night, he wants to hear somebody singing to him. Johnny Cash communicates. When all of the truckers congregate in the cafe at Delle or Knolls, four-fou- con- clusions anyway. I didnt get a chance to read it . . . too many multisyllabic words anyway. Then the city commission got involved and college professors and clinical psychologists ... the latest survey came from Dr. Cline on sex and violence and how it effects the kiddies. So I said to myself . . . why dont I take a survey in tlie valley to measure the effects of sex and violence in the home. Our select team of clinical snoopers canvassed 397 typical homes in the area and found 63 of the homes had heads of the household listed as the father (with all due respect to womens lib) and the fathers showed great signs of aggressive behavior durof the ing the weekends 14 time . . . usually during long sporting events on television. 6 of the time outright violence erupted in the household at the moment the mother of the house- examples of varietal names. In general, varietal wines are more expensive than generically labeled ones. It may happen in individual cases that a wine companys generic wine could be better than its varietally labeled wines. But you should not expect this to be so most of the time. Practically, for most of us as wine buyers, it will never happen. So, when buying American wine, if the label bears the name of a place or area in Europe you will usually be getting a good wine but one not considered the best. California or New York has tigers. Get it from Ford - Jled-Sito- Rent-A-Ca- r! If you have a temporary need for. a good depend--abl- e car, rent it from a good, dependable place. . LARSON FORD. Our low rates include insurance. .. RENT-A-CA-R to Mstidaj SfUm More Johnny Cash than Beethoven, more Roy Acuff, Eddie Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, and Flatt & Scruggs than AS LITTLE AS COMPLETE . Wagner. What accounts for the genuine popularity of Country Western? Sadly, Hemphill doesnt really seem to know. His book is descriptive, filled with names, facts, dates, and case studies. He takes you to Nashville, describes how a hick kid like Presley can pick up a guitar, thumb a ride to this music Mecca and try to make it big. If he gets a chance at one of the big record houses, (Nashvilles the second largest recording 'center behind New York) he starts a mad race driving from town to town, making one night stands, plugging his records with disc jocks, pulling down a thousand a night while it lasts. If he catches on real big hes headed for TV, a million copy seller, Cadillac, a home, for and dad back Jn Cupcfcke jtnom a f Vfc a as rf I kt li wouldnt go along with its Johannisberg Riesling are post-gradua- te -- Saint-Esteph- e, and label them Chateau graphical location (generic labelradio dial and twist it carefully, ing). Federal Alcohol Administralistening to every station you come to. Chances are that on a tion Act Number 4 of the Alcohol majority of stations youll be and Tobacco Tax Division hearing Country Western, or the (ATTD) regulates the labeling of hottest new stuff these days, American wines. The director of Bluegrass. If you yearn for relief the. ATTD, an American, decides from the standard fare, turn to whether or not a foreign geoone of the traditional stations like graphical name has lost its meanKSL, but even so, you wont ing of geographical origin, making listen very long before you catch it generic insofar as American Glen Campbell or Johnny Cash, wine makers are concerned. hillor some other Examples are: Burgundy billy balladeer. Then note, if you (Bourgogne), Sherry (Jerez), and will, that every time you hear Champagne. some hillbilly, you are dropping a What France and Spain think his chit into American decisions is not of these pocket. royalty Country-Wester- n is big bucks, known to me. What American and it pays off because so many producers think of Act Number 4 is known. They have officially repeople like it. sisted any infringements on their right to use any foreign geographical name they like. Representatives of the California wine industry fought the mild infringements of Act Number 4 like Now of course nobody admits he likes, it. Its like the survey a couple of years ago of newspaper readership in New York City. Seven million people declared honest-t- o goodness that they read the sedate old Times faithfully. This surprised the owners of the Times, because they only print six hundred thousand daily. On the other hand the New York Daily News, a lurid sensational tabloid (with the same format as the Salt Flat News) prints and sells three and a half million papers daily, but only half a million people would admit reading such low brow fare. Thats how it is with Country & Western music. There seems to be a preponder-enc- e of interest in sex and violence in our valley. I dont know what started it all . . . maybe the ' presidential commission on pornography. That little survey took, two terms to complete. Johnson ordered it and left office before it was done . . . and the next president said he didnt order it and and wine an American Cognac. Many producer would like to take some of his second grade sweet wines Sauvignon,- Burgundy, Chablis. What do these names mean? What are the vintners trying to tell us with these names? American wine makers generally label their wines after the name of a grape (varietal labeling), usually a French or German name, or after a European geo- REAL ESTATE per Day SERVICE Per Mile. - LARSON FORD RESIDENTIAL INCOME A COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL A PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT OFFICES: HOLLADAY 3324 SOUTH STATE 4657 SO. 2300 EAST DOWNTOWN 137 EAST 4th SOUTH 363-577- 7 EXECUTIVE 3324 487-166- 6 CENTRAL SOUTH STATE 484-430- 1 5500 So. 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