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Artist Excels in Pop Music
By TOM LARSEN
For the Emerald
As of right now, John Stew
art is to be counted among the
very best of current pop com
posers. His first Capitol al -
bum, “Signals Through the
Glass,” with Buffy Ford pro
viding beautiful vocal assist
ance, is the most exciting, most
remarkable popular record I’ve
heard in quite some time.
The ten selections are all
written by Stewart, a former
member of the Kingston Trio.
It is obvious that Stewart has
paid close attention to his con
temporaries mainly because he
avoids many of their mistakes.
There is none of the arro
gant incompetence that Lennon
and McCartney exhibit in then
work. There is none of the pho
ney, contrived simple-minded
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Talk at Headquarters
Robert Packwood, Republican
candidate for the U.S. Senate,
will hold a press conference at
4 p.m. today in his downtown
Eugene headquarters, 867 Wil
lamette St.
Packwood, who stands about
even with opponent Wayne
Morse in state-wide polls, does
have a slight edge with voters
in Multnomah Count, Oregon’s
most populous county.
Russian Pianist Plays
Russian pianist Alexander
Slobodyanik will present a
concert at 8 p.m. today in the
School ol' Music Recital Hall.
The cost is $1.75 and tickets
are on sale at the EMU main
desk and the Music School of
ilce.
The program is sponsored by
the Cultural Division of the
ASUO.
Slobodyanik, 24, is one of
Russia’s youngest artists. This
is his first concert tour in the
United States.
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diction that plagues much of
Dylan’s work.
Nor is there an attempt to
be really sophisticated and in
tellectual as there is in the
songs of Paul Simon. (Compare
Simon’s “Old Friends” with the
Eric Blau-Mort Shuman transla
tion of Jacques Brel’s “Les
Vieux” and compare h i s
“Overs” with Rodgers and Hart’s
“It Never Entered My Mind” if
you want to see just how far
Simon is from true sophistica
tion).
What John Stewart has to of
fer are honest, natural, literate
lyrics coupled with exquitely
enticing melodies.
Stewart’s subject matter
ranges from the shallowness of
the “pink-poodled people at
Sunset and Vine” to the deso
late life on the “dark prairie.”
One song tells of an old-tim
er caught up in imagined past
glories: “Cody’s hair is long
and dirty as the rivers of L.A.
Cody’s mind is gone, you never
know just what he’s going to
say.” In “Draft Age,” young
Clarence Milloy is reminded
“how terribly short it can be.”
The two best songs on the al
Emerald Article
'Shocks' Solon
A “shocked” candidate for the
re-election to the Oregon legis
lature has written to the Lane
County district attorney asking
about prosecution possibilities
against the Emerald for print
ing an alleged obscenity Oct. 4,
it was learned Thursday.
The alleged obscenity was giv
en to the Emerald as the name
of a since-dissolved student
group by that group’s chairman.
T h e Emerald subsequently
learned it was misinformed and
printed a statement to that ef
fect Oct. 7.
Rep. Keith Skelton of Port
land, said in the letter that he
was "shocked” by the Emerald’s
story. Lane County District At
torney John Leahy was out of
town Thursday.
If suit were filed against the
Emerald, the charge would
probably be a violation of ORS
167.151, said State Assistant At
torney General W. D. von Otter
steda Thursday.
Otterstedt added any action
would probably have to be
against one individual rather
than the Emerald as a group.
A violation of this statute on
disseminating obscene matter is
a misdemeanor. It carries a jail
sentence of not more than six
rftonths and/or a fine of not
more than SI,000.
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bum both deal with love. In
“Santa Barbara,” a young girl
goes “running, reaching through
the past” to recall a now-distant
love. Buffy Ford does an excel
lent job on this wistful tune.
“July, You’re a Woman” is sort
of a guide to highway seduction.
It has one of those rare lyrics
that begins with a great line
and then keeps getting better
line after line in a way that is
hard to believe.
In order to do justice to the
song, I would have to quote it
in its entirety and even then
I would be omitting the exhu
berant melody, not to mention
Stewart’s wicked, dirty old
man delivery. It has to be heard
to be fully appreciated.
Indeed, the whole album must
be heard to be fully appreciat
ed. It is not an album without
faults; Stewart makes mistakes,
some of them bad ones. But the
achievements outweigh the er
rors and I do not think that
Stewart has reached his full
potential yet. This is only his
first album. I already have
my money saved to buy his
second.
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