Ain't No Cure... • 2013 Page 6 ROOTS
Annual festival to feature dozens of notable traditional artists by Nancy Paddock
Page 8 17th Annual Hot Springs Blues Festival Spa City to get the blues by Dannielle Davis
Page 11 Dangerous Idiots
to record live album and DVD
Public is invited to be part of the production by Peter Read
The scene at Wakarusa
Page 15 Starlight Series Returs
Multiple artists on tap for showcase shows by Dori Colston
Page 19 Harvest Festival
Mulberry Mountain does it again by Sondra Goode
Page 24 Crystal Music Festival
Legendary bands to rock mine Diamond Rio and Marshall Tucker on the bill
COVERS: Jessica Riley • Artwork for Dangerous Idiots, Chris Raymond with Sonuvagun
The Regulars
Space News......................................................10 Notes from the Pub: Central.........................12 Notes from the Pub: Fort Smith..................14 Eureka! .............................................................18 Notes from the Pub: NWA ...........................20 Notes from the Pub: Hot Springs ................22 Backstage Pass ................................................23 Vintage .............................................................25 Frets About Frets .............................................27 Bob Boyd’s World of Music ..........................27 Concerts ...........................................................28 Club Listings ...................................................38 Own Worst Enemies.........................................52 Connections .....................................................53 Horrorscopes.....................................................54
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them… ----Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ---The Little Prince
respect and simply accept this fact. My father, a learned, well-versed deepthinking man who was philosophical to the extreme, thought deep and hard before he finally shared his opinion of the matter. “What have you been smokin’?”
Greetings and fair weather to you all. It is now 4:20 in the a.m. of this f.m. day, as we sit to peck out the few remaining tidbits of musical lore in this, our annual Ain’t No Cure… edition of Nightflying, the weirdest paper route in the history of the reading, literate world. Of course, it’s always 4:20 a.m. when we commence to wrap this up. And it really doesn’t matter when we start, either. There’s some old maxim that says any task will grow to fill the time that you have to accomplish it, and only a fool would take longer. We’re here to tell you, we are that fool…
So. One could say that we came by this habit of using the editorial ‘we’ naturally, and it has been this way since oh-so-long ago…we are a team and we like it…
Many have asked us lately just why we tend to use the editorial “we” so often. It is a fair question, indeed. Fact is, when we were about 11 or so, some ‘doctors’ decided that we had Multiple Personality Syndrome, and our parents bought it and started to treat us as if there was something wrong. We thought it might be true, of course, so we looked into it to see what it was about. We were 14 when we realized that it is most definitely NOT true. Fact is, people who have this “illness” - the Sybil thing, actually - don’t realize it…and for that matter, the different “thems” are usually completely unaware of each other. We realized one day that we actually DID have several thems, but for the most part, we all got along. We all tended to work together as a team, in fact. So well that we would have contests between us for general achievements. (The cool thing about that is that, no matter what happens we always come out winning, and we always have a gang around to celebrate the matter…) When we announced this to our parents one day they were astounded…for after all, in my father’s mind doctors, cops, teachers and priests could do no wrong. They were, in a word, infallible…and we’d be very wise to
In General…….
It is Summer, people, and with the season, of course, there are many, many chances to party outside under the stars where God intended it to be. Unless, of course, when He doesn’t… Case in point, the recent Wakarusa Festival was a scary thing for many when the tornadic storms rolled through. The deluge hit and the place was flooded in the extreme. Indeed, it became a virtual Woodstock, with people slogging about in the mud and dancing in the rain, and trying their best to not only survive but to still salvage the Waka experience… Coming together via the love of music and partying with 20,000 of your closest new best friends. Thing is, the crowd becomes even more of a community when, er, excrementum occurrum. Everyone has the common problem of survival in these circumstances, and they tend to pull together to deal with it all. Virtually nobody had dressed for such a situation either. This was a time to live in your cut-offs and sandals and t-shirts…to go camping for 4 days and leave the civilized world far behind…to live, eat and sleep freely with no cares other than what bands to catch…a pre-planned bender as it were. Some of the band sets were cancelled, of course, and not all the bands that were scheduled got to play. But over the course of the week several dozen artists did perform, and sheer elation of the crowd made nearly all of them very special shows. That is, we think, the power of music… The following week was another story. The promoters worked diligently and were able