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IF JAY Knutson had a
feenage rock and = rofl
star dream, he lost it a
while back. some time
after his days with
Vancouver club bands
such as Sweeney Toodd
and his stint with the
touring Bobby Curtola
Show.

| By MARK HAMIELTON |

So North Vancouver's
Knutson says. ves, the latest
Project — with Geoffrey
Kelly and John Mana — is
being built for comfort. not
speed.

The project is Spirit of the
West and the music is firmly
rooted in the folk traditions
of the British Isles and in the
folk-rock revival of the
19605. ;

“What we've trisd to do is
incorporate a Celtic base as
the root of the music and
make it topical to the West
Coast,"* says Knutsan,

The result is heard on the
band's self-titled and in-
dependently-releases first
album and in shows at
venues ranging from the
Savoy rock club to North
Shore pubs.

These are not “old hippies
in tattered jeans and long
hair’? playing folk music,
says Knutson. If the band is with people of the 80s andof — ple of months.” says Knut-
to succeed, in fact, he says the West Coast. accom- son. “Three months later,
that image of folkies will panied by inscruments that you're out of it. With folk,
have to be dispelled in order range from tin whistles to there's a longevity that
io capture new audiences, synthesizers. T's as much comes from axing a sup-

The album backs Knut- new music as old. portive and established au-
son's statement. While the The music is a concious  dience."'
music owes much to tradi- blend af diverse styles. The
tional British and Scottish band and the path it is tak-
folk music, you can hear ing have also been well
traces of such folk-based thought out.

‘60s bands as Jethro Tull “With rock music, you
and the Byrds. What you can make an initial splash
also hear is lyrics that deal and do quite well for a cou-

SPIRIT OF the West — John Mann, Geoffrey Keily and Jay Kautson — lay one some updated folk.

The album, he says, is the
band’s big gamble in
establishing that audience.
Spirit of the West has so far

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