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Thursday September 28, 1989
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Cajun music;
C.J. Chenier
with Master Chef Roy Melton
Tonight, 8:30 p.m.
ArtsCenter
929-ARTS
Tickets $10 public,
$8 Friends of the ArtsCenter
According to the New York
Times, C.J. Chenier is "an in
credibly talented piano accor
dionist, as well as an accomplished
saxophonist, lead vocalist, band
leader, and soundman." The son of
the famous blues musician Clifton
Chenier (widely considered the "king
of Zydeco"), C.J. started out in his
father's footsteps, but has since de
veloped a sound and style uniquely
his own.
C.J.Chenier's Red Hot Louisiana
Band, described as even "bluesier"
than that of his father, will be per
forming tonight at the ArtsCenter
Ricky
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Mystery honky-tonk man has 'No Regrets'
Leon Redbone
Saturday, Sept. 30, 9 p.m.
ArtsCenter
929-ARTS
Tickets $12.50 public,
$1 0 Friends of the ArtsCenter
Leon Redbone makes his living
bringing to life the music your
grandparents courted to. He
will bring his rich-as-molasses, lower-than-low
baritone to the ArtsCenter
in Carrboro on Saturday, performing
everything from forgotten 1920s-style
food, too
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in Carrboro. The show will also in
clude a la carte Bayou cooking by
master chef Roy Melton, who once
played harmonica with C.J. in a now
defunct band.
C.J. assumed leadership of the Red
Hot Band following his father!? death
in 1987. Although he has changed
the band's style in many ways, tradi
tion is still very important. C.J. per
forms using the same accordion his
father did, and the group regularly
plays its classic numbers as well as its
newer songs.
From first learning how to play
the accordion from an ailing and aging
superstar father, C.J. Chenier has
come a long way. He shows, at least
to some degree, the same sort of en
thusiasm and dedication of his fa
ther, who performed with one leg
amputated and while wired to a kid
ney dialysis machine.
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jazz to early honky-tonk.
His real name, age and origins
shrouded in mystery, Redbone tours
all over the U.S. and in various coun
tries. He weaves together vintage
songs, visual gags, vaudeville and even
a hand shadow show to create a time
and place out of his own imagina
tion. He says, "In the best of music it
is the feeling, not the words, that
come through. It's the balance be
tween sentiment and imagery that I
look for in the music that I perform."
That music includes the work of
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Kentucky native twangs in
Ricky Skaggs
with Bell and Shore
Friday, Sept. 29, 7:30. & 9 p.m.
ArtsCenter
929-ARTS
Tickets $20 public,
$17 Friends of the ArtsCenter
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ecause of his influential coun
try music and his stick-to-your-
roots attitude, Ricky Skaggs
has been dubbed "father of the neo
traditionalists." He will share his
versatile musical talent and traditional
sound on Friday at the ArtsCenter
in Carrboro in conjunction with the
Jelly Roll Morton, Blind Blake,
Emmett Miller and Jimmie Rodgers.
The common thread that ties them
together is romance. Redbone's own
musical favorites include Caruso,
Chopin, Gene Austin and Blind
Lemon Jefferson. "Blind Lemon Jef
ferson was the same as Chopin. Their
'Blind Lemon Jefferson was
the same as Chopin. Their
sentiments were the same:
They were both romantics1
sentiments were the same: They were
both romantics," he said.
Redbone has had six albums on
Chenier and the Red-Hot Louisiana Band
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Weaver Street Market.
After eight years experience in such
groups as the Country Gentlemen
and J.D. Crowe &. the New South,
Skaggs began his own group Boone
Creek at the age of 23. His experi
ments with various forms of music
including rock, folk, jazz and coun
try earned him more than 30 awards
including CM A Entertainer of the
Year, four Grammys and induction
into the Grand Old Opry.
Originally from Kentucky, Skaggs
grew up under the influence of greats
like Flatt &. Scruggs, George Jones
Warner Brothers, Atlantic and Sugar
Hill Records. His debut in 1975 on
Warner Brothers was On tte Right
Track. This was followed at regular
intervals by Double Time (1977),
Champagne Charlie (1978), From
Branch to Branch (1981), and Red to
Blue (1986). His most recent effort
was 1988's No Regrets.
He first gained national fame
through his 1976 and 1977 appear
ances on Saturday Night Live. His
commercial for Budweiser, which fea
tured Redbone sailing past a back
drop of paper moons, ran for an un
precedented three years. He has also
done commercials for Kodak, Levi's
and Timex. He made his film debut
last year in a cameo appearance in
Candy Mountain.
Carrboro
and Buck Owens. To these legends
he attributes his extended instrument
prowess. At the age of five, Skaggs
began to play the mandolin, and by
the age of fifteen he had begun his
musical career with Ralph Stanley's
Clinch Mountain Boys.
"He taught me one of the best
lessons of my musical career, and that's
to play the music you feel most
strongly about. That's something I'll
carry with me forever," said Skaggs.
This concert will highlight sev
eral cuts from Skaggs' ninth self-pro-duced
Epic release Comiri Home To
Stay. In addition to remakes of clas
sics from country icons Ray Price,
Stonewall Jackson and Bob Wills,
the album features some of his own
up-beat tunes, including one co-written
by Randy Travis.
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Redbone
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