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The 4th Annual AIDS fundraiser at Rotary Park this year, Saturday October
13th 9am-Noon.
http://tinyurl.com/Shadowville-All-Stars
Join Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars with special guest stars for
this good cause, as we try to help find a cure for AIDS within our
lifetimes. The Shadowville All-Stars Revue at Riverwalk Event Saturday,
October 13 2012 Rotary Park Boat Landing (Riverwalk) 1300 Victory Drive
Columbus, Georgia 31904 USA
Less than two weeks away, now!
All that has changed greatly since the 1990s up to now. Here's an archived
post from a while back that describes the scene here well, what is becoming
known internationally as "The Columbus GA sound".
Really old commentary on the Phenix City-Columbus music scene with some
interesting obsevations od the main players of the day:
http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.arts.poetry.comments/more_talent_from_shadowville_1004473m.html#1004473
More talent from Shadowville
The balcony of Mallard's apartment/Luminous Studio, where we smoke and
>>>>>> write, has a perfect view of the AFLAC skyscraper, with a giant
>>>>>> cartoon of
>>>>>> the famous Shadowville duck insurance salesman!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://69.41.172.4/eze/eze5/items/mandmnursing_aflac_logo.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So the duck references are kind of cool.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Stetson Duck-Man? heh...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Brian Mallard is not the same man I knew 6 months ago, his stage
>>>>> presence has vastly improved, and take last week, he led the a full
>>>>> band, when he was the only one who knew the song..." Glen Giles'
>>>>> words...
>>>>
>>>> Oh yeah, this has happened several times when it happened that Mallard
>>>> was the only /official/ Shadowville All-Star in the house, most notably
>>>> last week when we did the set with a cascade of just three acoustic
>>>> guitars (Mallard leading, Glen Giles and John Phillips) and my
>>>> vocals... one of my favorites ever.
>>>
>>> That's cool! I didn't hear about that! I bet it was great! Where was
>>> it? The Vault?
>>
>> That was last Wednesday at the Loft, while Glen was fill-in hosting for
>> Brent.
>>
>> I was talking with John Phillips, the drummer, and at first he was
>> going to do some brush on snare percussion, then said he wanted to
>> borrow a guitar and get an acoustic bass bottom for Mallard and Glen.
>> Here's what he wrote me about it the next day:
>>
>> "...I liked the acoustic, mellow sounds Wednesday (I'll also like the
>> rip-roaring sounds on Saturday, it's all good). I would like to try
>> some more mellow sounds with the All-Stars sometime; after all, I'm
>> looking to purchase a vibraphone in the future. Could be fun."
>
> I agree that would be interesting! I have found that I really dig
> acoustic music... and the rockin' stuff, too! My musical flow is closer
> to acoustic though, I think. Hard to say. I play what I play. I met
> John, too, for the first time. "Hey! All-Stars' drummer right?" He said
> yes, and then shook my hand. I did not miss that his hand was cool.
> Air-conditioning cool... heh, he had just arrived, from I guess an air
> conditioned car?
Heh... that couldn't have lasted long... as hot as it was, onstage
under those lights the heat is, as Jordan describes it, /soul
sucking/... which adds to the method acting of it all, a Journey Thru
Hell, though dark heat... Ozone Stigmata and the like deaw heavily from
the Orpheus myth
--
"Over You" / Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars:
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_13207558