whom you've been helping to raise. What do you think of the fuss that's TAMMY'S STORY Would you care to talk about it? been made over that song. TAMMY: I know that my sister is so TAMMY: A woman is a woman regard- A TV MOVIE much better Off now that her agony IS less Of what city or country she lives in. over. never seen anybody suffer more She still has the same feelings and goes in their whole life than that woman. And through the same experiences. she had a tragiclife to begin with. She was Just a 、 A/Oman. And a Just a man, ln an automobile accident when She was and nothing ain't ever gonna change that 21. She was an absolutely beautiful girl basic truth. I feel that I can really relate to before that, and she had to have over 360 the average woman because I myself feel stitches in her face alone. She was married very average. I worked as a 、 AJaltress. I when she had the car wreck, and she was worked in a bank. I worked in a shoe fac- scared tO death that she was gonnalose her tory. I worked pickin g cotton. I worked as husband because she looked so bad. Then a receptionist. There are SO many, many she had to have thifteen plastic surgery ordinaryjobs that l've done that the ordi- nary woman makes her living doing. And operatlons. I always associate myselfwith the average She had two children—a daughter and a son—and she almost died giving birth to Annette O'Toole and Tammy Wynette woman. CR: You've been divorced four times, both ofthem because she wasn't supposed and now you're happily married to your to have any children. Then when Chris, On March 31 , CBS-TV broadcast fifth husband, George Ritchie. You seem her boy, was born, he was born with his & 側イ , 外イ側 , a tv movie based on tO be a living example of the sentiments head wide open and his stomach wide Tammy Wynette ' s best- selling autobi- expressed in your song, "Keep On Fall- open and he had no fingers or toes. Caro- 0 叩 hy of the same title, and starring ing ln Love 'Til I Get lt Right. ' lyn immediately went to work on him Annette 0 ' Toole as Tammy. the plastic surgeons built him some little TAMMY: I think that any person who's 'I- never thought that one day a gone through a divorce has in the back of fingers. They're not perfect and they're a movie would be made 0f my book , ' ' said little short, but he can use them. their mind, whether it was their fault or Tammy. "lt's a dream come true. He's a perfectly normal, healthy, intel- somebody else's, that they're gonna get it After Annette was grven the coveted ligent boy, except for his disfigurements, right some day. The song so applies to part ofTammy Wynette, she flew to Las and I don't want Chris to suffer any more. other things. Even if it's something that Vegas where Tammy was performing, He went to his first Cub Scout meeting you re working on or writing, and it went backstage , and introduced herself and he came home cryingbecause the kids doesn't come out exactly right. I think as the actress whO would portray her. wouldn't play with him. And he said to his everybody feels that way about something "She was Just great and so excited, fåther, 。 'Daddy, I don't know why they —that they'll just keep on 'til they get it Miss O'TooIe says of her first meeting didn't want to play with me. I was really right. I loved that song when I first heard with Tammy. " She ' s been wonderful , it. And I felt so strongly because I just having a good time, but they said I was and I learned a lot by being with her, knew that some 、 vhere there was a 、 'lr. different. They said I was ugly, Daddy. watching her perform, and reading her Right for me, and I found him. He's right And it was enough to have killed me. I touching book. If I can capture one real cried 'til I couldn't stand it. Anyone that there in the next roon 】 . moment Of this woman's life that will My husband's ajewel, and an absolute sees Chris has to take a second 100k. But mean something to somebody , then that he's not retarded and that's a blessing, but musical gemus. a fantastic father, is what it is all about. ' he is aware ofwhat Other kids are saying tO and he really does spoil me to death. lfl so Critics and mi_llions Of viewers much as lift a leg 0 仼 the bed, he'll say, him. I told my husband I didn't care what who saw Annette 0 ' Toole ' s perfor- it costs, l'm gonna get that child some 'Why, what do you need, Honey? ' ' He's mance ⅲ & 側イァノ側 agreed that help. Carolyn was so great and to lose her Just SO attentive, and he puts together all she indeed captured something very so young ・ .. I want to do something for my Vegas shows, and he's written halfthe special. Due tO time limitations, much Of stuff l've recorded. Ⅵ第 were friends for her little boy. Tammy s incredible life story was not twelve years , and I th ink that was the CR: Summing up, how would you say covered in the telefilm. Let's hope a se- greatest thing we had going for us even success has really changed you? quel is in the works. before we fell in love. I think you've got to TAMMY: I told the kids, "The only way everything? We wanted tO get you some- like a man as a friend first before you can success has changed us at all is that we thing, but we didn't have any money, so have a bigger house tO live in and more really love him. We've been together now we decided tO write and let you know that food, but we have less time to stay in that since August of 1977 , and it's been great ・ I wouldn't trade one minute Of it. lt's you've been the best Mommy in the house and we stilllike to live on hot dogs. ' And that is so true. Would you believe been everything l've always wanted and world. You've given us what most people never get. And Ⅵ℃ mean money, we that a hot dog is still my favorite food? lfl thought of finding. mean love. ' ' Well, thatjust destroyed me had a choice between a steak and a hOt CR: What would you describe as the dog, why l'd take the hot dog. highest moment in your life? because they were really sincere. They really wanted me to know how much they TAMMY: Strange as it may sound, thought about me on my birthday, even when you ask me what was the highest ( Ⅳ 0 襯叫な。。 ' ' Carolyn 田ん when I wasn ' t there. My kids and I have high in my life, l'd have t0 say it was when 側ールん研 m な maternal grand- had a good time growing up together, and I had a birthday and I was out oftown and な , Caro ケれ田 7 襯なアなん . I guess I have also grown up with them. the kids didn't have any money. When I But, 豆ど Carolyn 田伽ケ膨確“ / イ群劬側 Tam- CR: You had a sister who passed away at got back home they had written a poem ア , ク田 ra な記 g ん側ん混厩あん that staned off: "Dear Momrny. How do a traglcally young age after a long illness, / that t ゞ , ra 側厩側側〃 / れ化 ) you get something for somebody who has and I understand she left behind a son 30 COUNTRY RHYTHMS 2

“ ln DelMar, CaIifornia, I had my first bra-thrown-on-stage ・ lt Just went flying by me. I didn't know what it was! When you get on the stage and hear all the screammg, you don't think about being a sex symbol. You think about how nice it is that so many people go wild. stays completely out 0f the public eye. His method of breaking into the Nashville country scene as well. After servmg ume in New Jersey nightclubs, Rabbitt packed his bags and headed for. . . New York! He recorded his "New York country songs' ' there. "When I was up in New York, 20th Century Fox was gomg into the country business. And I had one record there that didn't do anything. I was one of the few country wrlters up there.... the record was like a songwriter's demo [demonstra- tion tape] made into plastic, ' ' he laughs. "This was in the mid -1960 ' s. Then there was another one-shot deal on a la 1 called Date. NO contract to do singles-and-an- album or anything like that. Just a song ・ 。 I put ou t another thing called 。 The Bed. ' ' ' (This tune was later recorded by Tom Jones on his 〃どなゲ album). 'l'rn not afraid to mention these records, ' ' Eddie offers, "but I don't con- sider them legltimate recording deals. ' He sums hiS unusual career as 、・ e 、 York City country act by saying, "You know, Nashville is 6 million miles away from New York. The Partnership However unusual, it ) な「 a begmmng; so when Rabbitt hit Music City he did have some expenence under his belt. .. er some success a country 、 rriter , he formed a partnership with two other "left-field heroes, ' ' Even Stevens and David Malloy. The former was a little songwnter from Ohio; and the latter was an apprentice recording studiO engmeer barely out 0f his teens. Together, the three created the unique Eddie Rabbitt sound. They have created records that sound like no others in coun- try music, and certainly like no Others produced by the usual Nashville assembly-line method. Even early Rabbitt hits 1 e "Rocky Mountain Music,' "Two DoIlars in the Jukebox, ' ' and "Drinkin' My Baby Offa My Mind' ' had rhythm and drive combined with the airy Rabbitt harmonies that made them distinctive. With such smashes as "Hearts on Fire, ' ' "You Don't Love Me Anymore, "I Can't Help Myself," ' Pour Me Another Tequila, ' ' “Ⅵ Can't GO On Just Want TO Living Like This, ' Love You, ” and "Gone Too Far, ' ' the rene gade trio catapulted Eddie t0 country stardom. Then "Suspicrons, ' Every Which Way But Loose , ' ' " Drivin ' My Life Away, ' and "I Love a Rainy 36 COUNTRYRHYTHMS Night' ' brought their unique country sound t0 the pop muSIC world as well. Rabbitt believes this was possible because Of an unusual clause in hiS recording con- tract : “ NO record company executive has picked out our singles. That decision never leaves our hands. lt'S in our con- tract: Nobody else will pick out the singles. ' ' The three were SO sure that what they were dOing was "right' ' that even as beglnners they insisted on control. Now that he is a superstar, Eddie Rab- bitt has continued to break the molds: To put it simply , he does not act the least bit like a man who has the world by the tail. ln conversation, he repeatedly praises his partners and draws attentlon away 伝 0n1 himself toward them. "I don't think any of this would have happened for me if it hadn ' t of been for the mag1C of this creative friendship , he says. Even Stevens adds that Eddie displays no star's temperament when they're working together: "We've never had a major fight. Any ofus. ' Let's face it. Eddie Rabbitt is a national sex symbol ; and you ' d think that , alone , would give him at least a ん bit of a swelled head. But here, again, he's not a typical star. On stage he has none of the vulgarity or swagger ofan Elvis or a Tom Jones, much less the excess Of rock stars like Mick Jagger or Rod Stewart. He j u st looks happy. If he's a sex symbol, it's not because of any bumps and grinds, it's because of the twinkle in his eyes and his lrish charm. "I read and hear about me being a sex symbol just like you do, ' ' he "I never thought l'd have to comments. worry about that. ln DelMar, California, I had my first bra-thrown-on-stage. ltjust went flying by me. I didn't know what it was! When you get out on the stage and hear that screammg, you don't think about being a sex symbol. You think about hOW nice it is that SO many people go wild. lt's like walking into a party where everybody knows ya. I t feels good ; the music pumps; there's energy. What's Next? What's the next logical step for a country-pop superstar? Movies and television, right? Wrong. Our left-field hero has SO far resisted the temptations Of Hollywood glamor. " I have been offered ⅳ parts and movie parts and things like that, ” he admits, "and I don't want tO sound big-headed or anything like that, but theypst weren't 〃 g ん . I was offered a p 田ⅲ "CharliesAngel's," the male guest- starring lead , and I didn ' t want to do it. I was also offered to appear in Clint Eastwood'sAny ル Can and I passed on that t00. He did put together a highly-praised television special last year that featured Jerry Lee Lewis, Emmylou Harris, and his fine road band Hare Trigger. "On the whole I was real happy with my television special. I tried to cut through a lot ofwhat you see on Other tV ShO 、・ the bad writing, the canned laughter, and all that kinda stuff. We had a meeting and I told the producers and directors Look, a 10t ofyou don't know me well, and t0 be honest with you I don ' t know you. But we're here to do this thing and l'm here t0 do it well. lt's a Special and I want it to special. I don't want it to be sketch-song- sketch-canned laughter-song-sketch-can- ned this 'n' that. lfit's an hourofthat kind ofstuff, then we ain't gonna dO it. ' ' ' Pret- ty gutsy for a Nashville country singer t0 talk to the Powers of H ollywood ! Rabbitt Just comments matter-of-factly. "That was my bottom line. I said I ' m gonna compromise a bit tO your ideas, but you re gonna have tO compromise t00 tO what I think is right. ' lt's hard, ' ' he sighs, 'You know you're dealing with an awful lot of money and awful 10t of people and studios in H ollywood and a certarn way things are done, and a certain kind of wnting commumty out there. But on the whole I liked it. B ecause it a little dif- ferent. ' ' 妬〃 0 田 0 沢孕 , and the ム . 襯ぉ agreed with good reuews of Rabbitt's fißt 910 ouung. He's still cautlous about the tv indus- try, though. "Some people have talked about a tv senes, and l've nixed 肪厩 idea com.勲ななケ, ” he reports. "lfyou work on a senes every 、 veek, the first t 、 VO or three will be quality, and then the rest are 'Here-we-go-rolling-out-the-hamburg- er. ' There's a burn-out factor ⅲ a ⅳ senes... That set c 田 1 chew you up 田 spit you out ⅲ Las Vegas! ” Yet another thing that sets him apart from other country stars is his method of workmg. MOSt country records are made in three-hour recording session blocks of tlme where studio mu SlClans learn the songs, work out th&rangements, and record , With VOices and Other instruments being added to the basic tape later. A country album can easily be made in a week this way. Eddie's are made entirely differently. He takes five months 0 仕 each year to get together with Stevens and 、 1 oy to write songs and make recording trips. 'We go in all together as a team,

when her career demands her to be clad in some Of television's 1 OSt lavish designs. 'l'm ready to get in my Jeans now. I love them. I think I get a different attitude when l'm all dressed up, don't you? ” she asked honestly. "When I have a skirt ing modest—l find I sit differently, walk differently, and the clothes give me that attitude. lt's like that beautiful old song 'I FeeI Pretty, ' she gestured with one hand displaymg beautifully long, and well groomed, red nails. 'l've enjoyed, since l've been out rn California doing my show, having a mamcurlst come tO my home, and I get a mamcure once a week. That's the 房 lgg ど立 treat l've ever had. Maybe l'd had five in my whole life. And when someone plays string instruments the way I do ( b 」 0 Ken and Barbara's eleven-year-old son, Matthew, often travels with mom on the road. and pedal steel guitar) you can't have mce hands. With this treat, 1100k and feel as if I have someone else's hands in front Of me. ' ' She laughed, inspecting her right good for my halr or for my face, but When Barbara met Ken, she was founeen hand. because l'm lazy. I do five days a week out and he was a drummer with Barbara's dad's band, The MandreIIs. Barbara doesn't take the Hollywood here Of my show— fourteen hours a star treatment' ' casually. This vibrant day— and I ' rn pooped by the weekend , so While she's not working and な enJOY- mother of two (' 'My son Matthew was I save that time for the kids and Ken. I ing bemg Mrs. Dudney, Barbara admit- eleven in May and my daughterJamie look like an old hag, ' ' she teased ⅲ her ted that there truly aren ' t any make-up five. ' ' ) admitted that at home she's wife husky voice, " 田】 d I love every minute of hints at home. and motherfirst. She's been happily mar- "I love to go without make-up or lt. ried to Ken Dudney for over twelve years. A hit tv show 田 ld a hundred nights a combmg my hair. Not because I think it's year of road tounng call for a hairdresser and a make-up person. There are hun- dreds ofthe finest in Hollywood, and Bar- bara has found her favorites. ' 'I have a hairdresser here, Ron McDowell, who has been getting my hair ln great shape. Due tO the summer tours, tWO ShOWS a night, someumes l'm drenched when I come Off stage and Ron has tO start with me 伝 om letter A. My hair was m such ter- rible shape, and Ron doesn't allow me to have a permanent, SO we decided tO have my hair woven. ' By "weaving' ' Barbara was able to let her hair go back to its natural dark color with blond highlights woven intO it. The advantage? "NO dark roots! ' ' she replied boastfully. Several years ago while Barbara was recordmg an album, the record company hired make-up artist Bobbie Joy to work with her. "She's the first and only person I ' ve ever let totally stnp my face and do it themself. ” lt was obvious that Barbara has implicit trust in Bobbie, and the result is lovely: beautiful and natural, 0 being overdone. A trace 0f soft false eye- lashes ()I even wear them to the grocery store, ' ' she's been known tO reveal) em- phasize the sparkle in Barbara's big eyes which never seem tO tire. Admitting that the tv show is the most difficult physical strain she ' s ever expe- rrenced, Barbara didn't seem tO mind the fact that road touring does take its tOll. Mrs. Dudney grew up thinking she was t00 skinny ・ 12 COUNTRYRHYTHMS

honesty ⅲ that statement— and in her sisterly pride. Back home ( " Please stress Perhaps that is why she recently had a eyes— that made you understand exactly that home iS Tennessee! ! ! ' ' ) the entlre custom-made touring bus designed for how she lt. her. "lt's not school bus time," Barbara Mandrell family lives near each 0 市 er. ln And she cares enough to ask ifher inter- fact, sister Louise and her husband, R. C. explained , while describing her $ 250 , 000 vlewerhas enough for her article. "l don't B anning, live right next door. lnvestment which harbors a rmcrowave know if I shared enough beauty secrets, Barbara emphasized her alle gance to oven and a sheepskin bedspread. but the t れ一山 is, there aren't that many. 'l've got some beauty advantages ln Tennessee. Although most of her school What Barbara didn't realize was that my own room on the bus that I didn't years were spent growmg up in Los beauty secrets dO not necessarily come have ⅲ my old bus. My father and Ken Angeles, home is "definitely Tennessee. from a bottle ofmake-up or from a tube of and I designed the inside ofthis, my third We're out in the boonies, and I have a SO lip gloss. This old-fashioned, family- bus. I have a make-up mirror and can see Of country-life existence. oriented singer is proof that beauty so the back of my head. You see, other than the ShOW wraps for the season, Barbara, Ken, and the kids plan to move comes from within—the love She shares on tv or rmportant things , I ' Ⅱ always d0 theirbelongings from their rented Beverly for her family and fans ()I think my my own make-up. ' One honest beauty favorites are the very 01d people and the house t0 a new home Tennessee. tip Barbara shared was that she uses ab- A house that Barbara had always little bitty children. When I see them clap- . Just a round solutely no hot curlers. dreamed of owning was up for sale, and pmg or stamping their feet to a song, that brush and a blow dryer in order to create although it took a while for the seller and just makes me feel like l've accomplished her feathered wind-blown look. buyer to agree on a pnce, Barbara and Gettin g back to the pride she has ⅲ her something. ” ). bus, Barbara added that the suspension of Ken bought their dream-house. I won- And accomplished she has... Bar- the bus is such that it has a swaymg dered if this "dream house' ' was one of bara's singles constantly hit the top of the motion while it rides—no bumps. This is her happiest dreams. country charts , her variety series is a hit , 。 Winmng C ountry Entertainer of the important t0 Barbara who sleeps any- her family support is unbeatable, and her where from eight tO ten hours at a shOt Year was. When I walked 0 圧 the stage, I and home life iS a success. 〕 NO Ⅵ , heard one ofthe stagehands shout, 、 L00k, while riding on the road. She often takes な accomplishments. And if you want one Ofus won! ! ' and that made me feel the the kids on the road with her, and they the best beauty tip of , accomplishments happiest. ' ' There was a warm-hearted sleep with their mom ⅲ the bus. are beautiful! Barbara excused herself to put on her comfy j eans and a western shirt. She look- ed a bit tinier now than she did in her long dress—probably because now her trim figure and teeny hips were emphasized. I complimented B arbara , wh0 admitted that she has always thought she was skin- ny and flat-chested. As far as the latter statement, 伝 0n1 one female tO another, I assured B arbar 、 a that that was no lon ger the case. She laughed. Yes, for her tiny framework, she turned outjust fine. Male opmions? They'd have t0 agree that she has a marvelous 部 lre. Surprisingly, when I asked Barbara for her diet secrets , she didn ' t have any. "Today has been so busy I think I ate a half of a hard boiled egg. ' ' She was dead senous. "lt's true, I don't eat right. I eat whatever there is at the time. I don't eat three meals a day except when l'm on vacatlon. ' ' But vacatlons come rarely, and most Of the day's precious hours are devoted to tv work with her sisters, Louise and lrlene. Three beauties in one family doesn't seem fair, but that's the Mandrell family, thanks to manager-dad lrby and mom Mary. 'You know when you have a sister that looks like Lou ise ( the dark-haired raven) you get an inferiority complex. ' ' She revealed , however , that there wasn ' t any sense Of competition growrng up with them. "The three ofus are really amazed because there's really not one lnterview that goes by that we don't mention each other. We were brought up in a close Barbara MandreII in action—beauty eyes the ho 旧 er. needs, you're there! ' ' she added with 3 COUNTRYRHYTHMS 13

Lanky Roy Cooper, calf roper par ex- cellence, shattered his wrist in mid 1979. For most, this injury would have ended any hopes for being a top rodeo athlete, but not for Roy Cooper. Six months after the inJury, he won the calfroping average at the NationaI FinaIs, and the next year was the WorId Champion calf roper. But adversity has never stopped the redhead from Durant, Oklahoma. He has been named rookie of the year, world cham- pion, and PRCA season champion in his short career, the while being afllicted with asthma. ln fact, in 1978 , he was chosen by the national foundation as spokesman, which is possibly the greatest honor ever for this arnazmg rodeo athlete. Lasso King 飛 oy Cooper ropes a calf. season record for winmngs ln one event: Bruce Ford holds the all-time, single- den as well as Bruce. ln tesümony ofthis cowboys, past or present, have ever rid- you can rest assured that very few 。 'WiId Horse' ' mounts a bareback horse, cowboy of the late 1800 ' s. But when Bruce looks every bit the part ofa rugged the western range. Tall, quiet, and blond, throwback to the days when cowboys rode riding, Bruce "Wild Horse ” Ford is a Twice WorId Champion in bareback Bareback Bronc Champ Bruce Ford busting 100SC ・ Clint Johnson, the Saddle Bronc Champ ・ Young Clint J0hnson, age twenty- four, has quite a future. ln a short rodeo career, Clint has so far won $ 80 000 in earmngs, and a world championship in saddle bronc riding tO bOOt. Known as a strong, quiet cowboy, he is a product 0f the modern rodeo generation, competmg almost solely in saddle bronc riding. But when your spurring lick is as good as Clint's, why do anything else? COUNTRY RHYTHMS 59

pop acts would bring new fans intO coun- watered down black music for rock & try. mu sic and that this was good for the roll in the 1950 ' s , and now it's water- country industry as a whole. He added, ing down country music for the " The th ing that has m ade country mu sic 1980 ' s. I get suspicious ofpanic when successful is its ability to bend and expand I notice that musical styles that and accept new facets. seemed radical 20 or 30 years ago are Today, head Nashville Music Associa- now accepted as mmnstream. tion executive Dale Cornelius makes much the same ()bservatlon : PaniC does seem tO be premature, for A music that moves people emotion- every maJ0r record label has established ally has nothing whatever to do with country artists as well as young up-and- Johnny Paycheck: where they come from or how they comers WhO are hard country outlook. grew up. Change is healthy and RCA Records still has CharIey Pride and ' 'Country artists inevitable, and does not have tO Tom T. Hall, and is heavily promoting mean a lack Of respect for tradition. SOlid country Leon Everette. Warner don't have a There iS always r00n1 for expanslon Brothers has a great young honky-tonker chance ! and the classics ofcountry music will in JOhn Anderson, as well as stallwart not be overlooked or forgotten. Buck Owens. At Capitol/Liberty, MeI Country muSlC IS meant tO move McDaniel represents young country. you , catch your feelin gs, and color most solidly country singer in the business Mercury mmntains the StatIer Brothers your thoughts—if a song speaks to today; and a man who has frequently and has recently introduced Wayne you, 、 categones ' and spoken up for the preservation 0f the Kemp. Hard cÖuntryJeanne Pruett con- are meaningless. tinues tO have hits, despite being on a tiny music he loves. And don't forget, last year's CMA independent label (IBC/P. A. I. D. ). Co り沢り襯ゞ poll 0fNashville exec- show was more "country' ' than ever. NOt The CBS roster is crowded with classic utives drew a Wide variety ofresponses tO only did Bill Monroe perform, but nearly country stars likeJone s & Wynette , C ash , the overall situation. Perhaps the most all the or awards were won by artists Paycheck, and Bandy; but the company comprehensive analysis was by Bill lvey, following strmght country paths: George has also signed Ricky Skaggs , a m an with Executive Director Ofthe Country Music a bluegrass/acoustic music background. Jones, The Statler Brothers, Emmylou Foundation, the organization that man- MCA has veterans like Merle Haggard, Harris, Moe & Joe. ages the Hall 0f Fame & Museum and Conway and Loretta, and is bringing There's still plenty ofthat good ol' coun- country music ' s large st library : Gene Watson to stardom. Over at Elektra try mt.lSlC around. Yes, there may be some I think there are lots of pressures truth to fans' letters that charge, "lfHank are Mel Tillis, Hank WiIIiams, Jr. , and within big business country muSIC Williams auditioned for the Opry today Jerry Lee Lewis, who've been joined by that work against traditional country he would be turned down. ' ' But, country one Of the finest new country women sounds. But country music has been music has always honored its ' as Leona Williams. Ovation is introducing slowly joining the pop mainstream well its "new. ' ' Patsy Stoneman, ofthe il- stone country songwnters Jim Rushing for 50 years. And I don't think it's lu striou s S toneman Fam ily ( and people and Max D. Barnes to JOin a roster that useful to label that whole process like her) keeps the country community includes country hitmakers The Kendalls 00d or bad. Pop music keeps draw- honest by reminding us that tree can and Vern Gosdin. Rounder Records on ethnic for inspiration. live for very long without its roots. gives us outspoken Vernon Oxford, the Hard Country Lives ! A Gallery Of Hard Country Newcomers Leon Everette Mel McDaniel - ' John Anderson Gene tson Jim Rushing COUNTRY RHYTHMS 27

THE HOUSE TH 酊 KENNY BOUGHT 、つ 66 COUNTRY RHYTHMS four-passenger elevator, carv ℃ d Ⅵ ' 00d many luxunous features marble floors, a main house, 、 vhich numbers among lt S house. A 22 一応 ot wide dri 、℃ leads to the by masslve stone eagles and a guard proached through giant iron gates flanked Sitting high on a hill the house is ap- ly, founders ofStandard 0 ⅱ ofCalifornia. belonged to the super-rich Doheny fami- Called 、 'The Knoll, ' ' the estate once history of the United States. residential real estate transactlon in the that bargam pnce, it was the largest $ 14.5 million, to be exact—and even at to Kenny Rogers for just under that— the 35- room , ten acre spread. lt was sold ty Corporation, he wanted $ 15 mrllion for name, れ、 'Bernay' ) lnternational Real- (pronounced like comedian Carol's last market via the Sotheby Parke Bernet ducer Dino De Laurentns put lt on the most properties. And when 1 蝨 OVIe pro- dollars is the standard asking price for HiIIs, where three or four mllhon t's quite a house, even for Beverly homes ln one. The Rogers' place: all the comforts of seven 」◆◆◆◆◆仁 ◆◆◆◆◆ ◆◆◆◆◆く ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ ) ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆イ ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆ Above: The P001 and cabana 矼 ca 。 Right: The proJcction 20m , Far Right: Thc main entrance hall paneled library, His and Hers master bedrooms (HiS dressing r00n1 contams a professional barber' S chair), a screernng room, a 48- 応 Ot swlmrnmg P001 and a 13- car gar age contalliing a compl€ . te n ℃、・ chanic's shop, hydraulic lift, and a 2000 g 記 10n underground gas tank and pump, so that Kenny and Marianne will be able tO get mtO town tO buy grocerres ln case Of another 、 gas shoftage. The pictures shown here are from the offering brochure and much ofthe furni- ・ ture shO 、 vn vvas put on auction by the pree VlOus ovvn€i 、 th(. house was SOld S() Kenny and his wifé may have to rough it f01 a whilc until the trucks carrymg enough furniture tO ⅱⅡ 35 rooms start rumbling up the driveway.

Steel Crazy Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the Pedal Steel Guitar by Lenny Kaye he singer holds a breath after the boom, and the Hawai1ans promptly before Country and Western were lr- last chorus, steps back from the returned the favor by figuring out a new revocablyjoined in holy musical wedlock, microphone , and the band way to play it. there was Western Swing. moves mtO an lnstrumental The credit, according to legend, goes to Changes break. The guitarist takes his turn, with Joseph Kekuku, who one day happened maybe the fiddle adding a counter- lt was a world of difference. While the tO drop his comb across his guitar's strings melody, and then eyes are focused on rnuslclans Of the southeast stuck pretty and became enchanted with the slither- the 1 OSt unassuming member Of the basically to supportmg the singer, western ing, silky sound it made. By 1894 he was band. He or she sits behind a table on swing players, especially those ommpre- traveling around the lslands givmg im- which are set rows Of strings. A steel bar sent steel guitars, were encouraged tO step promptu concerts while his cousin Sam presses against them, fingerpicks strike out. Bob Dunn, of Fort Worth, Texas, accompanied him on the violin. When the metal , and the resultant strains simulate became the first to apply electricity to the century turned, he had become convinced the opening of the gates of heaven. acoustic lap steel? playing with Milton hiS inventlon 、 a mere novelty and Brown and his Brownies. From there it Where would country mu sic be if not had begun to seriously study it. He was hard tO keep the horesepower ln for the steel guitar? Of the instruments designed a steel bar to make the sound check. Such bedrock guitarists as Leon that make up the C&Wtexture, its addi- brighter and cleaner, and eventually he McAuliffe (who played with Bob Wills tlOn IS at once the most natural and most played it before the royalty ofmany coun- odd. lts roots flow not from some rural and the Texas Playboys, and wrote the tries. He then moved to the United States. legendary 。 'Steel Guitar Rag' ' ) , Noel hamlet in the southern reaches Of The instrument caught on in Hawall— Boggs (who helped Hank Penny shine), America, but from an exotic, hybrid and by a stroke of good fortune, was and the legendaryJoaquin Murphy (who Polynesian culutre in the middle of the lmported tO the United States on the wave overcame such performing eccentrlCltres Pacific Ocean. Far from feeling a stranger Of a craze for things Hawaiian that wash- as stepping 0 仕 the stage in mid-song if he in its foster music, it has become identified ed over American shores after World War was somehow unsatisfied) set new heights as ど country instrument, SO much SO that I. This coincided with the growing in steel guitar playing. the present-day pedal steel is in danger of popularity of phonograph records, and becoming typecast, held back from taking The instrument was going through soon such ' 'Hula Blues' ' masters as S01 many changes as well. From six strings Hoopii, Frank Ferara, Roy Smeck, and part in 記 1 muSlC. StiII, steel guitar has always proved the steel moved to eight strings, adding on many Others were enjoymg vast success. adaptable. The chain of its invention a neck or tWO Of additional tunings for Used as a melodic 。 'lead' ' instrument (it even greater chicken-picking potential. recalls DarWIman evolution in the SIOW was fairly difficult to play rigid chords on Pedals (see box) began to show up in the upward progress Of an instrumental the steel), the lap guitar had become quite early 1940 ' s Gibson's Electraharp, species tO maturity. The first steels were a fashionable instrument. and when inventor Paul Bigsby took on a little more than acoustic guitars played As the public's fascination with project t0 design a pedal guitar for Joa- flat. Today's multi-pedaled, many- HawalIan muSlC waned, the legacy of the quin Murphy, the rest came as natural as necked electric mutants bear as much steel remained, but this time the cowboys chorus f0Ⅱ0 、 verse. resemblance tO their forebears as a called back their cards. The Dobro, Na- But in the interim between lap steel and modern jumbo jet does to the Wright tional, and other metallic guitars had full-pedal steel—a period that takes place Brothers' first Kitty Hawk machine. taken hold in the south among country in the late 1940 ' s and early fifties—there muslCians (perhaps relating it tO the bOt- Hawa1ian ()rigin were several stand-out players. Herb tleneck slide guitar tradition developed Remington was a HawaIIan-onented ar- To find this 1 ost venerable ancestor, somewhat independently), but in the tist when he went to Hollywood during we must travel tO the Hawaii Of a century Ⅵ℃ St, a true l)l()neer muSlC was in the pro- 、Ⅳ orld War Ⅱ looking for work. That past, when the islands were a stopping cess of forming. Composed ofequal parts didn't stop him from J0ining the Texas point for 1 manner of ethnic diversity. big band swing, dance hall rhythms, jazz Playboys and writing one of the classic The guitar was introduced to the Pacific soloing, and plain old honkytonk good steel guitar standards of time, the bar- culture by Mexican and Portuguese tlmes, it tOOk root ln a brace Of states crashing Okeh instrumental 0f "Rem- cowboys who came following the cattle around the Texas panhandle. Long Opposite Page : pedal Steel wizard peter Drake deftly " whines " his instrument. 工「ココ山 M ココ V 」ココ V 工のエ VA 〔 0 ト 0 工 d COUNTRY RHYTHMS 53

Patsy Cline 挙師市 y 挙 The Life and Legend of 。 7 go ん阨〃を〃 ' んをん ス側 / 尸リ C ん 7 んどなノ / 〃 0 0 れど田ん〃訪んグ . oday, she is a legend—beloved and revered. But Patsy Cline's life, like one of her songs, was a hard luck story, the country version of such great female singers in other fields as JanisJoplin, Edith Piafand Bessie Smith. Her promising career ended abruptly on March 5 , 1963 , when the light plane she 、 travelling ln crashed near Camden, Tennessee, 85 miles west ofNashville. AI- SO lOSt in the same crash were Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Randy Hughes. lronically, they were flying to Kansas City, Missouri, to do a benefit for the widow ofdiscjockey CactusJack Mc- CaII, who had died in a car crash. Cowboy Copas, who along with Ernest Tubb and Hank WiIIiams had been one of the hillbilly superstars of the forties, was making a comeback with his first hit (' 'Alabam") since 1948. Hawkshaw H awkins , who had traded five trapped rabbits for his first guitar, had had big hits with "Sunnyside of the Mountain' ' and ・ 'Slowpoke, ' ' and Randy Hughes was Cowboy Copas' son-in-law and pilot of the death plane. At the time ofher death, it was rumored that the tough-talking, beer-drinking Patsy Cline was pregnant with Randy's baby. The few things ofPatsy's salvaged from the plane wreck—a cigarette lighter with the Confederate flag, a blond wig, a hair brush and a mascara wand—are now on display at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame, to which she was elected in 1973. And as if the plane crash weren't devastating enough tO the world of coun- try music, singerJack Anglin was killed in an automobile accident on his way tO Pat- sy's funeral. Patsy Cline was born Virginia Patter- son ("Patsy' ) Hensley in Winchester, Virginia, on September 8 , ・ 1932. An early starter 、 she won a tap dance contest at the By Scott Cohen . age offour, and by the time she was eight, she was playing piano and singing. Her folks were poor, and she had to drop out of school when she was 16 in order tO earn money for her family, which consisted of her parents, brother and sister. She worked in a drugstore, and after work her mother would pick her up and take her around tO 、 Where She sang on street corners for nickles and dimes. One day Patsy heard that Wally Fow- ler ofthe Grand 01e Opry was starring at the Winchester Palace theater, and she managed to get him to hear her sing. lm- pressed, Wally gave Patsy a guest spot in his show and invited her to Nashville to sing at the Opry. But Patsy was so poor, she had to sleep on a park bench the night she performed at the Opry, with her mother watching over her. And even though she was asked back to audition as a regular, Patsy and her mother had to leave because they couldn't afford to stay in Nashville another day. Back in Winchester, Patsy joined the Bill Peers Melody Playboys as a vocalist. ln 1953 , she married Gerald Cline, but the marriage lasted only three years. She was married to Charlie Dick in 1957 , and that union lasted until the end of her life. Patsy recorded a number of singles 10- cally, but were unsuccessful— however, on January 8 , 1957 she did get an audition on ス劬肝 Go り , な Ta な厩 & な , a nationally televised program. lt was the turning point in her li . One of the Godfrey re gulars , J eanette Davis, persuaded Patsy to sing a song that had been written by Don Hecht for Kay Starr—it was called ' 'Walkin' After Mid- night. ' When the audience response was measured at the end of the show, Patsy froze the applause meter. She won first prize and a recording contract With (now MCA). "WaIkin' After Midnight' ' became an instant hit, and reached the # 3 spot on Billboard's country chart. For the next three years, Patsy had only moderate success With recordings, but in 1960 she had her second big hit, "I Fall To Pjeces. ' ' But disaster struck Patsyjust after she recorded that song—an autOI れ 0- bile crash almost took her life , and shelost both eyebrows and su stained horrible scars on her forehead. From then on she wore wi gs tO hide the scars. She was about to undergo her third plastic surgery operation when she died. From "I Fall To Pieces' ' until her death, Patsy had one hit after ' 'Whén I Get another— " C razy , Through With You, You'll Love Me "She's Got You, ” and "Sweet T00 , ' Dreams. ' ' She was one ofthe first country singers tO achieve success on bOth the country and pop mu sic charts , and the highest ranked female singer at the Grand Ole Op . She even managed to dethrone Kitty Wells as "The Queen Of Country Music. ' ' She was making top money, drove a Cadillac, and lived in a home with gold dust imbedded in the paint. Her cur- rent record at the time Of her death was "Leaving On Your Mind. Today, Patsy Cline is a legend both ⅲ - Side and outside country rnuSlC circles. Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris had hits with "I Fall To Pieces' ' and 'Sweet Dreams' respectively, and Patsy has been an lnspiration tO virtually every female country singer. One of the most memorable scenes in the movie Coal 外イなの側 g ん involved the meeting be- tween Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline, and this November , the same people who made that movie will produce a film based on Patsy's life. lt is not yet known if Beverly D'Angelo, who portrayed Patsy Cline so magnificently in Co を外イグな の側 g ん , will play the role of Patsy in her life story. ln the remembrance of Patsy by her friend Jo Ann Thomas which accom- panies this story, JO Ann tells 0f the last time she and Patsy were together, throw- ing cherry pits out Ofa car window on the way to an airport in Pennsylvania. We'd like to think that those seeds have grown intO trees and are still there along that highway, part of the legacy left by the great Patsy C line in the all-too-brief time she spent 田 ong us. COUNTRY RHYTHMS 43

and Johnny's (they were from Brooklyn What ls A Pedal Steel Anyway? yet!) immoftal 。、 Sleepwalk' ' ? This didn't mean that purer country Probably no other instrument in musicians had t0 take a back seat. L10Yd country muSlC IS regarded with as much Green, for instance, brought the Nashville curiosity as the pedal steel guitar. A sound to its height of studio sparkle, play- mass Of levers and attachments and ing on a goodly portion 0 耘″ count リ songs necks and strmgs, it makes sound almost during the past decade. The revival of uncanmly, drawn frorn somewhere western swing (through bands like Asleep beyond the minimal movements of the At The WheeI) has meant a return to and p layer. an expansion from this older form, with Like many things, the pedal steel Maurice A. nderson ( 、 Mh() sells hiS 0 、 ln- looks more difficult to handle than it strument under the brand-name MSA) really is. The steel originally began as a and Tom Morrell rising to the fore. varlant Ofthe slide guitar with six strings and a similar shape, but soon tOOk on a L ooking Ahead distinct personality Ofits own. Basically, lncreasingly, steel muslcrans began tO the addition of the pedals (and knee 100k past their own little world, intent on levers) Ofthe steel was a natural reaction promoting the concept 0f pedal steel t0 out- Virtuoso PedalistJeff Newman in concert. to the "tyranny ofthe bar' ' and the need side listeners and players. Dobroist Shot 10 , 8and6 ( 0r8 , 6and5 ) ( 0r6 , 5and4) tO get more notes m S01 れ e playable order Jackson and Buddy Emmons teamed up ()r 5 , 4 and 3 ) will produce variants (in- along a straight line. early on to design the Sho-Bud guitar, a versions) of the standard E chord in the Versatility becomes the quest for new perennial favorite among Steelers. Em- open ()o bar) position. Pressing down sounds. After many changes, today's mons later split 0 Ⅱ、行 orn the company to the first two pedals together will change typical steel guitar generally has two found his own Emmons line. Others, like that to an A chord ()r if you think necks, each with ten strings. The first, the tireless Jeff Newman, have begun to located closest tO the player, is tuned tO a numerically, from the I chord t0 the IV teach the steel, utilizing mail-order courses C6 chord, which is very effective forjazz chord). (complete with play along cassettes) and and western swing; the second is called lt accomplishes this by having localized seminars. the E9 tuning, used in most standard pedal one raise the fifth and tenth strings The highpoint of this steel activity to a C # , and pedal two raise strin gs three country and pop songs. (A Universal B6 comes over Labor Day weekend every and six to an A—all by means ofa pulley tuning that hope s tO comb ine the year, when pedal steel guitarists and just system that begins at the pedal, runs benefits ofboth necks intO one has yet tO plain fans meet in St. Louis to pay homage u nderneath the wooden frame , and ends catch on). tO their instrument Of instmments. With The notes of the E9 tuning are, from at the bridge where the string is an- over three days Of continuous concerts, the bottom (lowest) string to the top : chored. featurmg just about every 。 narne' ' whO B/D/E/F#/G#/B/E/G#/D#/F#. To get If you can see (and hear) that, you re ever pushed a pedal , the steel afficionados an idea of the ingemou s thinking that well on your way to understanding pedal steel guitar. ) (some travel om as far as Europe and helped design the steel, plucking stnngs Japan) are filled to the listening brim with ington Ride. ' ' T0day, Herb runs a steel rneetings Of rnusical minds. expert playing. Run by noted steeler and AII of the above used some form of gu itar shop in Houston , and if you ' re ever teacher DeWitt Scott (whose " AnthoIogy pedal guitar, but it wasn't until 1954 that in the neighborhood, stop by and say hello of Pedal Steel Guitar' ' has just been the tide truly changed for the steel. With published by 、 'lel Bay instruction books), it tO a true mnovator. Another transplanted 、 'Hawanan' Bud lsaacs providing support for singer a 襯 / for any whO have a particular in- Webb Pierce, a song called 。 'SIowly' was Jerry Byrd, who loved the lslands so terest in the steel, or love tO hear some good much that he now lives and teaches there. caught the imagination Of listeners solid music-making. AII of this pedal steel activity seems to Byrtl was born in Ohio, and his many solo everywhere. Bucking the conservative indicate that the future for the instrument country music tides, this 。 'new' sound Of albums— both standard and Hawairan— steel guitar was suddenly everywhere, a 100kS bright. NOt SO, admit most steelers. and deft tonal touch had widespread in- crymg sound soon became a staple Of SO long identified with country musrc, it fluence. Don Helms, for example, whose risks becoming an easy stereotype. If a simple sense of melody gave Hank every NaShVille seSSIOn. record producer wants a 。 country The instrument was growlng ln sophis- recordings their Williams' spare sound, for example, the chances are 1 第 ore elegance, was an early Byrd follower. tication as well. Buddy Emmons, current- than likely that he'll call in a steel guitarist. Perhaps the sparkiest ofthese early steel ly recognized as / ん steel guitarist, got his But would that same producer think ofthe start in the 1950 ' s with Ernest Tubb; by wizards, and a true master Of the un- steel for an r&b record, or a disco smash, predictable, was Speedy West. He had 1963 he had gone into the studio to record or even a pop standard? hungered long after the steel, using a knife the epochal & G ( / 2 with a truejazz Yet the steel, complex and ornate, is quartet. For those who had thought the handle for a bar until he could afford a capable of sweetening any type of muSIC, steel confined tO mere weeping, it was a regular instrument. He came tO Califor- and perhaps the eighties will show a new nia in the late forties where he worked in a revelation bOth complex and entertain- maturation for this constantly evolving dry cleaning plant until he found steady ing. Top sesslon man and producer Pete instrument. lt's been a longJourney from employment in music. Bouncing the bar Drake took the instrument yet another step further when, employing a voice box 'Aloha Oe' ' to the backbone of today's against the strings, wobbling and twisting country music, but the possibilities for attached tO his instrument, he recorded it, his muSIC was dizzying in its showboat steel are yet tO blossom ln tomorrow s the first' 'Talking Steel Guitar' ' hit with effect, and his fifties' guitar duets with 'Forever. ' ' And who could forget Santo world of sound. 」 azz great Jimmy Bryant are historical 54 COUNTRYRHYTHMS AY INN