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Show AGGIE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2,2005 5 LIFE Blues musician heavyweights come together at USU Z A C H PENDLETON Staff Writer Photo courtesy of Bridger Folk Music BLUES MUSICIANS, ANN RABSON and Guy Davis will play at USU Thursday May Swenson Poetry SWENSON From Page 4 permission, the team is on the verge of placing a sign at the entrance to Cache Valley that reads, "Welcome to Logan, Home of May Swenson" With every success and completion of a project, another one seems to take its place, Crumbley said. "We have all sorts of projects that we're doing, some are practical and some are dreams, but that gives you a sense that there is no end," Crumbley said, "The people we've contacted around the country and in Europe are extremely enthusiasatic and we really feel like we're at the beginning of something that will continue to grow. I feel certain that I will be working with May Swenson as long as I'm here, as long I'm mobile and sentient." For more information on May Swenson or "The Swenson Project," contact Paul Crumbley at 797-3860 or visit the Swenson Web site at A nine-fingered guitarist taught him how to play. She is a multi-talented guitarist/pianist/ singer/songwriter with enough rock to play auditoriums and enough boogie to fuel a 43 year career. Anyway you look at it, Guy Davis and Ann Rabson are the stuff that legends are made of and this Thursday they both come to the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium. Though he once played Dr. Josh Hill on "One Life to Live," Guy Davis is much more comfortable being known as a bluesman. Over the course of eight albums, Davis has created a world where banjos, blues harps and even the occasional Creation It is a stern thing, This This And This W > - ; - v ^ ' - : ; ; ; ;'• bringing into b e i n g ; ' •••• •;.? : : .. i-;; t a k i n g of a c l o d that is c o l d ;'.-/'";•••••[:.'•• v e i n i n g it w i t h sprouts of f i r e ; . •'••\; wrestling of a star f r o m chaos, ?•'•'••• •'•• And chiseling it upon the lathe of exactness; This making of an indolent thing urgent; This begetting of eagerness; It is hard anda fierce thing... . , .,.; ; \ .. : Did You find it so, God? .. V; ."71 - 1 9 3 6 v - ••.-••:•" -.-•.•:. "Creation" and "Indelible You" by May Swenson used with permission of The Literary Estate of May Swenson. \- : . : ,... , v.. v www.usu.edu/swenson. Comments can also be sent via e-mail to pcrumbley@english.usu.edu. -mattgo@cc.usu.edu Ann Rabson and Guy Davis •7:30 p.m. •Eccles Conference Center •$12 in advance, $14 at the door washboard are commonplace. This lush soundscape, coupled with his gravely voice, has been enough to garner a fair share of critical praise. Nominated for several W.C. Handy awards and winner of the Blues Foundation's "Keeping the Blues Alive" award, Davis is on the forefront of the revivalist movement of blues music. Ann Rabson describes herself as a "Music Makin' Mama," and her 43-year career is proof enough that she's dead on. This 60-year-old started playing guitar at the tender age of 17 and has been building an audience ever since. While most fans know her as the boogie-woogie piano pounder premier of today's blues scene and as founder of the group Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, her latest work includes three successful solo albums and a steady stream of tour dates. Guy Davis and Ann Rabson will be co-headlining the show at the Eccles Conference Center Thursday. Tickets are $12 in advance or $14 at the door, and can be purchased at the Spectrum ticket office, Sunrise Cyclery, Maya's Corner and Import Auto. Tickets for children 12 and younger are $9, and are available only at the door. -zpendleton @ cc. usu. edu Indelible You It was good to desire you good to be with you even half-measure under any circumstances with whatever consequences A POET'S LIFE From Page 4 ,. I will remember your mouth when first I found it responding richly granting all I asked Your kiss—fortaste of fulfillment— will represent fulfillment in miniature I will remember your hand on mine gentle, reassuring when instead hate might have stiffened it. I will remember your eyes meeting mine without flinching those steady eyes that burn through all barriers to the core of beauty leap past all obstacles to the horizon of truth And your slow smile and the glint of your teeth laughing in the darkness •; -.-•' :. , .. , '"•": '. v ;: . ;••'.,-> Indelible You. -1947 Shortly before her death in 1989, Swenson made one last visit to Utah to visit her family. At the time, Swenson was living with her partner, Rozanne Knudson whom she had met while working at Purdue. The night before she passed away, Swenson told Knudson that "bodies don't last forever, you know. I think mine is wearing out. I may not live much longer." In an address given at her funeral, Swenson's brother Roy paid homage to his famous sister, telling those in attendance that she would "be missed and remembered by a multitude of kin, untold thousands with whom her c - 1 * . inspired insights, illuminated depths of this existence that were previously obscure, with whom her poetic works have established a lasting relationship." Though she passed away almost 16 years ago, due to the efforts of those working on the Swenson project, Swenson is getting a second chance at fame that very few people, living or dead, ever receive. "There's a dimension of what we're doing that has to do with presenting her again," Crumbley said. "This is Swenson's new life." Biographical information takenfromthe book "May Swenson: A Poet's Life in Photos" By R.R. Knudson and Suzzanne Bigelow. -mattgo@cc. usu. edu •=:••*;• O3/o; 200! „ - IHUI.UdU.CUUiVfHnECn WWW.USU.EDU/CAREER - - . ••- • Who's Coming to the Fair? UPDATED LIST! 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