Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 24, 1993 TAG: 9306240100
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
Roscoe Cox, director of the Pulaski Main Street program, which is sponsoring the festival, said the Virginia free-falling skydiving team will open the show by landing at the Kenneth J. Dobson Stadium on the Pulaski County High School campus.
Other performers include Clarence "Strokin' " Carter, The Impressions, Power Force, Face to Face, and Don & the Deltones. Gates will open at 3:30 p.m. and the show starts at 5 p.m.
Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the gate.
London-born David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears grew up in a show business family. His mother was a music hall entertainer and his grandfather a vaudevillian.
But his influences were blues musicians like Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and Ray Charles. He blended blues, jazz and rock in his own style.
When he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears, the group included brass players from the New York Philharmonic, a bass player from Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, a rock 'n' roll harmonica player and several top New York jazz musicians. It was, he has said, "a very unlikely band. They normally never would have known each other, let alone played in the same band together."
He is now its lead singer and chief composer. Its first album with him sold 10 million copies and launched three gold singles.
Carter is best known for his blues singing and his hits, "Slip Away" and "Patches." Born and raised in Alabama, he lost his sight as a boy and attended the Alabama School for the Blind in Tuskegee, Ala.
He planned to teach but, after graduating from Alabama State College, switched to music.
Music by these and other performers will come to Pulaski County at what Pulaski Main Street representatives are planning as an annual series of summer music fests.
Tickets are available at Martin's Pharmacy in Pulaski; Counts' Drugs in Wytheville; First Street Pharmacy in Radford; Medicine Shoppe in Dublin; Hometown Pharmacy in Narrows and Pembroke; Books, Strings & Things in Blacksburg; and all TicketMaster locations.
by CNB