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ERFIELD BLUES BAND — Tickets are now available at the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Richard Pryor, comedian, to jrial Union box office for the Sunday concert of the play at Freeborn hall, UCD.iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiimi3ttison hasButterfield blues bandbe mayor plays atON, S.C. f/P) — James Mattison the mayor no matter which man esday’s election.incumbent mayor is James C.Mattison. His opponent, a ter and no relation, is James A. Mattison.icknames are on the ballot to help »rs.ii miiiiii ii hi mm ii ii Mini mi mm i mi ii mThe Chicago blues of Paul Butterfieldis Mark Naftalin, on bass is CharlesmddriveMarchid guidance in 1968, and who pin pes for the help they need on ?ess of this year's fund appeal, snt to which these hopes may be will depend on the extent of the and participation demonstrated by lents of Yolo county.” ical organization is one of the 50 of the Eaaster Seal society for Children and Adults of California, al and state organizations are part ational Easter Seal society, which )bserving its 47th year of service tysically handicapped.al chairman of the 1968 Easter ipaign is singer Dinah Shore, who mteered her services on behalf led children and adults for the ter Seal fund appeal.illand his band will be heard in Freeborn hall at 7 p.m. February 18, along withthe comedy of Richard Pryor. Tickets are $2.25. college students, and $3.25 general.Paul Butterfield describes his music as “the blues over-stated.” Others have called it “sound and soul — where folk, blues, rock and jazz unite.” Most of his followers call it Chicago blues, sprouting from the vast South Side ghetto.“They come on like a gang of Mexican bandits taking over a village in a cloud of victory dust,” wrote A. G. Arononwitz of the New York Times, “their instruments swinging jauntily in the style of trigger-happy badmen while they walk around the bandstand rearranging the microphones and the amplifiers with all the care of someone kicking dogs out of the way.”“They are the Butterfield Blues Band, and they arrive . . . travel-stained with the experience, the grime, the raunchiness and the excitement that only a blues band could pick up barnstorming through America.“They rule the stage now only with the self-assurance that they are the stars of the show, and also with the confidence that there is nobody doing what they’re doing better than they.”Butterfield, who came to the blues when he was 16 in the honky-tonks of the Black Blues Belt on Chicago’s South Side, first formed a group at the University of Chicago, where he met Elvin Bishop, his lead guitarist.By the time his blues band was ready to leave Chicago, he had become a legend in the city. By 1965, the legend had become so strong that the Newport Folk Festival relaxed its ban on electric instruments to invite Paul’s group.Today, Paul, with two albums on the market, has rearranged the personnel of his band so that it includes a brass section and almost a totally new group of musicians. The only surviving member of the original band is Elvin Bishop. At the organ(Bugsy) Maugh, on drums is Philip Wilson. Charles Gene Dinwiddie is at tenor sax, Keith Johnson plays trumpet, Davis Sanborn is at alto sax.Paul Butterfield wears a Viva Zapata mustache now, he writes much of his own material and he has emphasized the back beat of his sound to satisfy the contemporary demands of the pop music audience. He has also moved his home from Chicago to San Francisco, but Chicago sticks to his style — a style now being copied throughout America.Tickets for the Sunday concert are available at the Memorial Union box office and the Breuners box office in Sacramento. The concert is presented by the Memorial Union Student Council (MUSC) at UCD.New era is begun at Ford's theatreWASHINGTON W — The new career of historic Ford’s theater began Monday night with a poetic drama of stirring relevancy, “John Brown's Body.”The presentation by the National Repertory company, first at the brick-faced edifice on 10th street since an assassin’s bullet struck down President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, launched a 14-week season by the company.Now the purpose is to transmute the elaborately and carefully restoredplayhouse into a shrine of cultural vitality instead of tragic memory.200 Bushel club meetsThe second California meeting of the DeKalb 200 Bushel club, sponsored by the Ramsey Seed, Inc., will be held Wednesday, February 21, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at El Rancho hotel, 1029 West Capitol avenue, West Sacramento.Press reception at 11:30 a.m. will be followed by the luncheon at 12:15 p.m. and the 2V2-hour afternoon program.
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Tue, Feb 13, 1968
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