Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

OCKABILLY BOYS

burn; surfer guitar king

.sizzles; blues great
leaves us with one more.

Spanic Boys — Dream Your Life
Away, Rounder Records 1993
With voices as twangy siarp
as their guitars, the boys fall out
of time with a zesty rockabilly
yokel essence.
From a contemporary urban
consumer of digital product per-
’ spective, the Spanic in the city |
experience is somewhat akin to
encountering Nick Lowe doing
his utmost earnest Everly
Brothers while dispensing with
the Anglo-wit. Quite simply,
Tom and lan are powerfully
rockin' made-in-the-U.S.A.
nerds.

Initially Dream Your Life
Away irritates. Fab vocal har-
nonies break the ice. Stick with
it if you have a weakness at all
for so-called American roots
rock,

The acerbic vrittiness eventu-
aily infiltrates that place we all
have in our heads where we
automatically store the churning
detritus of a culture that inces-
santly feecls upon itself as a con-
dition of renewal.

Dick Dale — Tribal Thunder,
HighTone Records 1993

The fret-fusing thunderous
source is the Dick Dale Signature
Custom Fender Stratocaster
plugged into a Showman amp
ond Fender reverb box (designed
by Leo Fender).

Swimming, trupging, watusi-
wet tribes of surfer dudes and
drag: strip daddies have locked
on to the Dick Dale vibe ever
since 1960 and the release of
Surfer’s Choice on Dale’s Del-
Tone-Records.

Mucho staccato outburst and
plenty big Apache beat conspire
to make Tribal Thunder a fero-
cious affair,

The King of Surf guitar makes
an appearance at the
Commodore on Thursday, Feb.

New photo exhibit rocks
out with stony posers —

THOUGH THE title seems at first
more in tune with an SCTV skit
than a bonafide art show, Rocks |
Have Known is an intriguing
concept for an exhibit by North
Vancouver photographer
Heather Fisher. r
The show, running until Feb.

6 at the Ferry Building Gallery in
- West Vancouver,. captures
images of the boulder-ish sub-
jects in their natural environ-
ment, offering views of the such

Blueberry Breast of Chicken in flakey past
other Twilight Dinners

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stellar and stony Lynn Valley citi-
zens as Whale Rock, Mother
Rock, the Walrus, the Crab, the
Ancient One, and Twin Falls.
Fisher and her trusty 35mm
camera have attempted to cap-
ture, “the form of a rock, its tex-
ture, its strength, its peacefulness,
its relation to its buddies, its

character; all these qualities

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draw me,” she says.
The rocks themselves were,
alas, unavailable for comment.

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Champion Jack Dupree — One
Last Time, Rounder Records
1993

William Jack Dupree was one
of those great black performers
who found themselves spending
the better part of their profession-
al careers in exile, in his case it
was 35 years in Europe. He
charted an R&B hit in 1955, The
Walkin' Blues, but he never
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struggle many of America's blues
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nering the broader recognition
they deserved on the home turf.

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New Orleans. In 1990 he.
returned, was rediscovered and
in his 80s he checked out only
after leaving blues fans with three
last discs from "the last of the
great barrelbouse pianists."

He's lazy with the lyrics much
like John Lee Hooker — attitude
in lassitude backed by exquisite
stroll in the roll of the 88s.

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