REVIEW Continued from Pago 11 sometimes "basic” can kick as hard as the next guy, as is the case with Blackbird's label males. Mother’s Finest. MAWS Finest Scon Bros. campus radio release Like A Negro 1992 Whoo. boy Mother’s Finest kicks it oul with Ibis four-song release This five-piece setup has a pretty heavy dose of chee/iness as far as their pre sentation goes, but they put out in the rawk department Any doubts I had about these guys and girl were gone by the end of the first song Some of tlie lyre s are kintkof rudimentary, like "AIDS sucks/crack sucks/being home less suc ks/racism sucks/censor ship surks/pollulion sucks ." but at least they're coming from the right place. The only song on this CD that isn't on their first album is "Police on My Back," a cover of the Clash song. The promo material that came with the CD makes il seem like the band rushed into the studio and cut this song as soon as possible to make some sort of comment on the Rodney King scene. Fortu nately. they rip it up This EP wets my appetite for more, and I would recommend picking up the first album by Mother's Finest, titled lilaci Radio Won’t Plov This Record. Imcause the first three songs on this EP are available on that If you are the type of review read er that craves comparison. I sup pose Mother's Finest sounds like small-town grunge factory hip-hop workers vacationing in the lower east side until the hotel that they're staying at issuddenly sucked into a Don Cornelius-induced frenzy served up with a hefty portion of Danceleria-styled towheads all rocking to a funky beat laid down by Bootsy himself with Vernon Reid at the controls BABY G RAMPS Continued from Page 11 lion that the blues has taught him will always be al the core of what he does. "It’s never been about show-biz. To me. Imusicl is life and death stuff," Ryan said The antique steel-bodied guitar is another aspect that the music of these two artists has m common. Both play Resophonic guitars that were made before the 1930s "For blues players, these guitars are part of the historic allure." said Gavin "the Rooster" Fox. KLCC's host for the Sunday "Blues Power" show Invented Indore amplification, this type of guitar was designed with resonators within the body, which gives the sound a unique "metallic edge." Fox said These National Steel guitars are especially suited for the novelty songs from the 1920s and 30s that are Cramps' specialty. Fie is also renowned for singing and writing tunes with whimsical lyrics. One such song is an original tilled "The Palendrome Song." which contains at least 50 palendromes. or words that read the same forward and backward. The title for Bela Fleck and the Flecklones' album "t IFC) Tofu" is credited to his song "I've Never Seen a Straight Banana” is another playful Cramps tune. “He inspires hysterical laughter." said trie Peterson, the regional concert coordinator for the EMU Cultural Forum, which is bringing this event to Eugene as its first annual concert. "He's like a giant, oversized cartoon character. It's incredible to see the crowd's reaction." said Peterson, who has seen (’.ramps at the Oregon Country Fair. Cramps' stage persona is partly attributable to hokum, "a theatrical way of experimenting on the audience like they did in vaudeville.” Cramps said. Another element of his stylo is his own exag gerated version of ragtime, meaning "ragged time." or synchopation. For those of us who are not music majors, this is when a tone is begun on the Iasi half of a beat and then continued through the first half of the next beat Ragtime dates back to before the turn of the century, but it became more polished later when classical musicians such as Ceorge Corshwin adapted it. Cramps uses it in the original spirit of the word. Cramps said he admires and has been influ enced by Cus Cannon. Cobel Reeves. Joseph Spence and Bob Dylan, among others Cramps performed in the Academy Award nominated movie Streetwise and he gave Jeff Bridges music lessons for the upcoming movie American Heart. He has been recorded on eight album compilations around the country, such as at the annual Northwest Folklife Festival in Seat tle and for one cut in the Victory' Music Review's 20th anniversary edition. Northwest Songwriters. The latter recording is available by sending Si 1.50 for a CD or SO.50 for a tape to J’O Box 7515. Bon ney Lake, Wash., 98390. 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