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Like many folk groups, they found their material by scouring old songbooks and listening attentively to obscure albums on the Folkways and Vanguard labels. One Vanguard trio, the Greenbriar Boys, expressed resentment when PP&M used their arrangement of the English ballad "Stewball" for yet another hit single. But Seeger said he was pleased by PP&M's version of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," which he had adapted from a Cossack lyric (and to which folk singer Joe Hickerson added the final verses). Voilà! One more antiwar ballad to insinuate its thesis into the minds...
...businessman, Johnson is showing the same kind of all-star potential. The opening of the 12-screen Magic Theatre movie complex next to the flagging Greenbriar Mall in predominantly black southwest Atlanta is the latest deal to establish the former hoop sorcerer as a force in inner-city economic development. Magic movie marquees are going up in Houston and Cleveland, Ohio, and Johnson has announced plans for 14 new multiplexes in 10 other cities over the next two years...
...grossing movie house. "Everybody in Hollywood said it wouldn't work," Johnson says of the L.A. deal. "They laughed at us, and they laughed at Sony. Now they want to know how they can help." The theater's success has given an assist to other businesses there. Like Greenbriar, the mall had been struggling, with occupancy languishing between 65% and 70%. Since the theater opened in 1995, occupancy has recovered to 98%, and tenants report 30% to 70% increases in sales over the past 18 months. Before the Atlanta theater opened, Johnson was getting calls from businesses such as TGIFridays...
RAGGED BUT RIGHT! (Vanguard) shows how country music and bluegrass sound after they go to college and move to the city. The three young Greenbriar Boys are lively, technically superb, sometimes jazzy and even in tune as they range from the old-timey Take a Whiff on Me, otherwise known as the Cocaine Blues, to A Minor Breakdown, an original by the Greenbriar banjoist...
...interesting to boot. In general, coffee-house performances are better (and usually cheaper) than the concerts. Occassionally, though, the price of the ticket will be justified by an artist not usually seen in these parts or an outstanding combination of artists like Eric Von Schmidt, Doc Watson and the Greenbriar Boys in their Feb. 9 concert at Jordan Hall...