8/12/2019 Gregg Turner's new album

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asily if you don’t havefor people to come

nd look at it, so that’se did all those (video)s.”

ner is playing a spatews in the next week tohe release of “GreggPlays the Hits,”

st solo album afterhan three decades inIt was funded through

arter — and went righthe deadline beforeng its financial goal,e-racking time for

and his posse.dn’t want to do it atecause it was justless and gratuitouspeople for moneygging,” he said.

“Everybody on Kickstarterwas so somber and seriousabout, ‘Please send memoney, I’ll appreciate it untilmy dying days, I’m makingart, we’re all part of thisvery serious, incredibleart project.’ So I thoughtif I do this, I want it to besomething that’s fun andfunny and not quite asgratuitous, so that was ourmotive.”

The album has a ’50s and’60s feel, which is the musicof Turner’s youth. In fact,many of the songs could betransported back to, say, 1963and you’d happily sing alongwhen they came on the radioor dance it up at the sock hop.

“It’s just the material I’vebeen playing in coffeehouses,

outside of the Blood DrainedCows and the Samoans,”Turner said. “Some of itdates back 20 years. And it

just seemed like the time todo it.”

Marked by simple, laid-back arrangements — andinfused with Turner’strademark sense of humor

— “GTPTH” includes suchsongs as “The PharmacistFrom Walgreens,” “I

Dreamed I Met Lou Reed”(in which the notoriouslygrouchy Velvet Undergroundleader appears to Turnerin his sleep and helps himfinish the song), “I Lost MyBaby to the Guy at the BobcatBite” (named after thefamous Santa Fe eatery) and“I’ve Become Flaccid” (from

“eating bad acid”).There also are three

covers: Turner’s spin on theP.F. Sloan classic “Eve ofDestruction,” made famousin 1965 by Barry McGuire;Roky Erickson’s sweet andtuneful “Starry Eyes,” and“Cycle Annie,” written in1964 or so by a young Lou

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he CentennialSpeaker Series at theKiMo Theatre willcontinue at 7 p.m.

esday, Sept. 12, with aauqua performanceor Deborah Blanche,rings to life t he lategrapher Laura Gilpin.ative Westerner, Laurawas a professional

grapher who hadred the techniques ofape, portrait, still life,ercial, documentaryrial photography, as

well as the principle, extantmethods of printmaking.She published severalbooks for which she wasphotographic illustrator,writer and designer. In herlong life, this Renaissancewoman studied violinat the prestigious NewEngland Conservatory ofMusic, operated poultryfarms to supplement familyfinances and, after doingher exceptional work for 55years, at last gained nationalrecognition for her t alents.

In the program, Blanchepresents Gilpin as she was

in 1954 — a conf ident andebullient woman in her early60s.

General admission for thisand other Centennial Seriesprograms is free of charge.The audience is invited to ameet and greet with Gilpinfollowing the presentation,where free gourmet coffeeand herbal teas will beavailable.

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