The record, 10 septembre 1982, Supplément 1

m \ • Friday, September 10 :.,v;%' BIRR 'y'fy '¦y-M W #¦ ^ ms'Æa&ï.'M’ÿjiÿS mmm* mm i ¦ ^ —- e ¦ ÿ>, a^i.- •a».s» ^NiS»>(- 1 'j P«iW* çs&m sm ¦m , ¦ .' n.' \ : 2-TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,1982 If Skaggs isn’t pure bluegrass and he isn’t newgrass.Except for Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs is the only contemporary musician who has successfully combined the sound of mainline country and traditional bluegrass.But unlike Harris, a straight country singer who dabbled in bluegrass with her Roses In the Snow album, Skaggs is an established bluegrass performer who has made it on the country charts.From his first contemporary album.Waitin’ For the Sun To Shine, the 28-year-old Kentuckian has had no less than four singles up in the North American charts: Don't Get Above Your Raising, You May See Me Walkin’, Crying My Heart Out Over You and, currently, 1 Don’t Care.“I want to bring bluegrass into the main stream of music and record sales,” Skaggs says.•We've sold more than 250,000 Country music By DAVE 1 *A/UJLHOLLAND albums in just over a year, and close to 600,000 singles.” Bluegrass purists, however, no longer consider Skaggs part of the fold.“Some dyed-in-the-wool bluegrass fans have been negative about the new sound,” he says.‘‘They won’t accept drums and steel, but hundreds of thousands of others are turned on by what I’m doing.” Exactly what is Skaggs doing?Is it really contemporary bluegrass, sometimes called newgrass?"Naw, it ain’t,” says J.D.Crowe.“It's nothing but old style country, plain and simple, old style country.” Crowe, leader of The New South, is regarded by his bluegress colleagues as the modern Bill Monroe because his group has spawned so many good performers.Skaggs is one of them.After starting with Ralph Stanley's band, Skaggs spent a year with The New South before forming his own group, Boone Creek.When Boone Creek dried up, Skaggs accepted Harris’s persistent invitation to join her Hot Band, where he played mandolin, guitar and fiddle, and added his bluegrass influence to her albums.He was the thrust behind the Roses In the Snow project.In 1980 Skaggs left The Hot Band to get back to traditional bluegrass by touring with Buck White and The Down Home Folks.Romance blossomed and Skaggs married White’s daughter, Sharon.Some observers think Skaggs is opening the door to mass popularity for traditional bluegrass artists.But, says Crowe, “Naw, it ain’t going to happen."The Country Music Association has got the D.Js.buffaloed and they only play what they’re told to play.I get disgusted with the whole thing.” Actually Crowe is happy about the commercial scuccess of his alumnus.In fact, Crowe’s next album will feature mainline-country instruments in an attempt to capture some of the same audience.Skaggs has a simpler answer for his sudden success."I just think it’s good music and people have been waiting for it.I think it’s given the disc jockeys something new and fresh, and radio eats anything like that right up.” Skaggs says there’s no pressure from his record company to move closer to a middle-of-the-road country sound.He selects his songs and has control over the production of his records.“That’s the only way I can perform,” he says.“Don’t put me in a shell and expect me to come out with anything great.I can’t do that.” His next album on CBS is Highways and Heartaches.Skaggs says it features the sound established on Waitin’ For the Sun To Shine.But Skaggs’s fans who prefer him doing pure bluegrass should check out his recently-released Family and Friends on Stoney Plain Records.The album features the Whites, Skaggs's parents and several prominent bluegrass performers.Playing Terry Fox means reliving ‘awful things’ TORONTO (CP) — Eric Fryer has had to go back and take himself through some awful things in preparation for his role as Terry Fox in the movie the Terry Fox Story, says Rosemary Dunsmore, his acting coach.Dunsmore.whose stage roles have taken her from Vancouver to Scotland, has been assigned to help Fryer, the Toronto man who will play the lead part but who has never acted before.Dunsmore said Fryer — who has been barred from speaking to the press until the spring — was initially intimidated by the task of portraying Fox.Fryer and Fox experienced the same affliction — they both lost a leg to cancer at the age of 18.Fryer now is 21, the same age Fox was during his Marathon of Hope run that raised millions for cancer research.The two even look alike.Both were avid athletes and Fryer, a former hockey player, has learned to ski on one leg.“Certainly he has a knowledge of Terry Fox’s situation,” Dunsmore says.“But it's getting hung up on the notion that ‘no one will accept me as that guy because he’s better than I am.’ ” FACES ARDUOUS TASK Having to invade his own privacy has been Fryer’s most arduous task, Dunsmore says.“When ?NO.TITLE 1.Abracadabra 2.Eye Of The Tiger 3.Even The Nights 4.Hard To Say I’m Sorry 5.Take It Away 6.Love Is In Control 7.Hold Me 8.Eye In The Sky 9.You Should Hear 10.American Music 11.Wasted On The Way 12.Vacation 13.Eyes Of A Stranger 14.Jack & Diane 15.Keep The Fire Burning 16.Blue Eyes 17.Think I’m In Love 18 Only Time Will TeU 19.Your Imagination 20.Hot In The City 21.Enough Is Enough 22.Somebody’s Baby 23.Da Da Da 24.Hurts So Good 25.Superstitious Feelings 26 Only The Lonely 27.Do You Wanna Touch Me 28.I Keep Forgetting 29.Out Of Work 30.Down Under 31.Someday, Someway 32.Hey Operator 33.You Can Do Magic 34.Boys Of Autumn 35.Rosanna 36.Love Or Let Me Be Lonely 37.Your Daddy Don’t Know 38.Still In The Game 39.Hold On 40.Voyeur ARTIST Steve Miller Survivor Air Supply Chicago Paul McCartney Donna Summer Fleetwood Mac Alan Parsons Melissa Manchester Pointer Sisters Crosby, Stills 8, Nash Go Go’s Payolas John Cougar R E O Speedwagon Elton John Eddie Money Asia Hall & Oates Billy Idol April Wine Jackson Browne Trio John Cougar Harlequin Motels Joan Jett Michael McDonald Gary U S.Bonds Men at Work Marshall Crenshaw Coney Hatch America David Roberts Toto Paul Davis Toronto Steve Winwood Santana Kim Carnes Music Chart LAST WEEK 1 2 5 8 5 7 3 9 10 11 15 14 13 19 6 18 21 23 12 24 20 27 28 16 25 17 31 33 22 34 30 35 PL 38 26 37 39 40 PL PL WEEKS ON 14 9 11 8 7 8 11 11 8 7 6 7 13 5 10 5 6 4 9 5 8 4 3 16 5 15 3 3 7 2 4 3 1 2 17 2 2 2 1 i terrible things happen to us, we usually find a way of coping — often blocking them out.All our behavior is, as a result, a defence.As actors, we’ve got to shed that.Eric has to go back and take himself through some awful things that takes confidence and courage.” She says, “in life we are so busy ironing out our dilemmas — actors tend to get on the stage and do the same thing.Yet it’s problems that create drama.As an actor, one must do the reverse .my work tends to be getting people to create problems for themselves.” Is that what she’s doing with Fryer1’ “The script creates enough problems as it is,” she admits.“I’ve never worked for any length of time with someone on a one-on- one basis, but Eric has very good instincts.He’s not an actor but he is an artist — he draws.” Dunsmore starred in Straight Ahead — Blind Dancers at Toronto Free Theatre and at the Edinburgh Festival '81 where the London Sunday Telegraph selected hers as the best performance.Between parts, Dunsmore teaches scene study to professional performers.The Edmonton native studied at York University and has been studying with Kurt Reis at the Centre for Actors’ Study in Toronto.The Terry Fox Story, a Robert Cooper production directed by Ralph Thomas, will be broadcast in the spring on the U.S.pay-TV network Home Box Office and on the CTV television network.\ l\lNàAAN AND ffc-RRy btATON LLNNOXVILLL 50tNL5 12 ^tPT.10 to OGT.5 GALtRlt ARTG LLNNOXVILLL 192 RUL QULLN LElNNOXVILLL, QULbtG T LL567-242