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-Queen City Rock Camp Showcase – Clara Thompson Hall @ 6:30pm ($5) -At Play! – The Creamery @ 6pm -First Friday Zine Jam – RSVPaint @ 7pm -Old Mr. Bones: Personality Disorder – Arts & Letters @ 7pm -I Knew Not Where I Was – Park Central Library @ 6pm
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LISTENING IN ON singers' voices. “Just Common Folk” is THE OZARKS On July 11 th, in 1 969, performed by Otis Williams, who has a quiet, somewhat unsteady older voice. Beaula Boskins sat down with Max Hunter in Reed Springs. They recorded a Otis pauses sometimes, searching for the beautiful rendition of the folk song “Poor next word, and the song’s promise of a Wayfaring Stranger.” It is a capella, just heaven for the common people seems Beaula’s voice caught on tape as it fills like a lived experience in his performance. the room. I don’t know if Max has While many of the songs stepped out, but I imagine him there, are sombre, and often religious, they are sitting quietly. also funny. The breadth of topics is as Hunter combed the Ozarks as a travelling salesman in the broad as the topics of life. In “Agaline” 1 950s. His obituary tells the story of him Reba Jenkins relays the tale of a man playing guitar to himself on the road, and who buys an unruly goat and then fails at trying to kill it. It is like a looney tunes learning to record on a cartoon in the way it pairs portable reel-to-reel. obscene violence with Hunter then began slapstick humor. recording locals, Music has always been a documenting their culture, way to paint the time of life, expressions, and music. and in an era before tv and For almost 20 years he the internet, documenting built an interest and and sharing the variety of reputation out of the life in music was an disappearing folk tradition in the Ozarks, essential part of close-knit cultures. To going so far as to run moonshine in some extent it still is; local music scenes exchange for a song, and collecting over continue to develop and the music 1 4 hours of music by the time he was continues (in its own way) to reflect life. done. Hunter went on to receive high honors from the Missouri Arts Council, People are still getting together to jam and have his entire collection housed by and trade songs, and will be for the the Springfield-Greene County Library. foreseeable future, and many others are In the late 90’s a huge still listening in and recording what they can, hoping to leave behind a effort was made by the Library and Missouri State to digitize and transcribe documentation of the folks they saw and the entire collection, and you can find it the music that was made. A look back in all online now. It is an incredible wealth of time through the Max Hunter collection reveals and celebrates the long history of music, with Ozarkian takes on wellhomegrown music and culture in the known classics, as well as absolutely Ozarks, and the transcendence of unique pieces of folk history. documentation and preservation. I highly Beaula’s “Wayfaring recommend taking a few minutes to flip Stranger” is lofty and almost operatic, with a light, natural reverb. Some of the through the collection and have a listen yourself! songs are rough, and you can hear a Find it here: maxhunter.missouristate.edu different sort of age and life in the