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Craft Beers Featured Event
to Dunkels, Pales to
Oregon Brewers Doppelbocks
Pilsners and Scottish ales to Stouts,
the Oregon Brewers Festival serves
Festival opens
up more than 20 beer styles from 82
craft breweries from around the
Thursday
country.
The Oregon Brewers Festival, one
There are 84 beers in the main
of the nation’s longest running and tent - one per brewery plus two
best loved craft beer festivals, cel gluten-free offerings - and another
ebrates its 25th year, opening Thurs 40 plus varieties in the Buzz Tent.
day, July 26 and continuing through
This year, organizers have also
Sunday, July 29 at Tom McCall Wa announced they will add a Sour
terfront Park.
Beer Tent to the festivities, bring
With a laid back attitude and ing awareness of one of the latest
scores of award-winning beers, the craft beer trends.
festival provides an opportunity to
The event also features four
sample a variety of craft beer styles. days of live music, food booths,
From B elgians to B row ns, craft vendors, industry promotions,
home brewing displays and a root
The 25th annual Oregon
beer garden.
Brewers Festival opens
A dm ission to the festival
Thursday, July 26 and contin
grounds is free. Minors are wel
ues through Sunday, July 29 at
come when accompanied by a par
Tom McCall Waterfront Park.
ent.
Musician Ends Self-Imposed Exile
erate.
His return is a welcome develop
ment for those who recognize his
deep contributions to modem mu
sic — as Sam Cooke's guitarist, the
writer of the Rolling Stones' first hit
(AP) — Bobby Womack is seek and someone who scored many of
his own during his solo career.
ing a rare second act at age 68.
Some worried Womack might not
A gospel and soul singer, a
songwriter and a guitar player with have the same vitality that made him
few peers, Womack is largely a for one of the most inspiring and imi
gotten figure today — but one who tated artists of his generation. And
is getting a close re-examination. even Womack wondered sometimes.
His new album, "The Bravest Man He admits to having seizures during
in the Universe," was produced by his tour with Albarn's Gorillaz sev
Damon Albam, and Womack has eral years ago and his health prob
ambitious plans for a tour later this lems loomed large.
"Yet as so often is the case with
year— if his body and doctor coop
Bobby Womack
relaunches
career at age 68
Bobby," said Mark Rowland, ex
ecutive producer of the "Unsung"
series, "he gets counted out over
and over in different ways through
out his career, and yet he keeps
coming back."
The "Unsung" episode that aired
in January on TV One which fea
tured Womack was among the most
watched and commented upon in
the series.
Womack hopes for a little drama
in the next chapter of his career and
calls "Bravest Man"a fresh start.
It's his first collection of original
material in 18 years — since he quit
the life to save his life. He gave up
music because he was addicted to
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drugs and alcohol. Drugs and mu
sic. Music and drugs. The two were
so intrinsically entwined, he felt the
only way to really quit one was to
give up the other.
The way he sees it, he's carrying
the torch for all those friends who
fell victim to the lifestyle or were
forgotten by time.
"I've got to represent some of the
greatest soul singers that ever
walked in life. I still feel that they
don't get their propers for what re
ally happened," he said. "Since I've
outlived 90 percent of those people,
I said, 'Let me make a statement.'"
"The Bravest Man in the Uni
verse" is a broadside at soul tradi
tionalists looking for a recreation of
something W omack might have
dropped in the 1960s or 70s at the
height of his influence. Programmed
beats and electronic sounds skitter
behind Womack's voice and a smat
tering of traditional instruments, in
cluding piano and Womack's guitar.