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...Roadwork, the latest album by Edgar Winter and his group, White Trash, contains several songs recorded at their Apollo performance. Winter's show had all the trappings of an old time R 'n' B show--plenty of brass (Marshall Cyr and Mike McLellan, trumpets, and Jon Smith and Jerry LaCroix, saxophones), a hard-driving rhythm section borrowed from his brother Johnny's band (Randy Hobbs, bass, and Bobby Ramirez, drums) and guitarist Rick Derringer, also from Johnny's band. The material was presented faithfully and with polish and included Stevie Wonder's "Do Yourself a Favor," the old Rhythm...
...Apollo performance covers only one side of Roadwork. The remainder of the two-L.P. set is devoted to performances of White Trash on its home ground--the Whiskey A Go Go in L.A. and the Academy of Music in New York. Here the band has both form and substance, performance and communication...
...Maybe I need a son to even things up, because I'm out of shape," said Muhammad Ali when his twin daughters were born 16 months ago-making three girls for the Alis. But even females can help out with the roadwork, as Jamillah and Reeshemah discovered in Zurich, Switzerland, where the ex-champ was training for his Boxing Day exhibition match with West German Heavyweight Jurgen Blin...
There are reports, too, that Brown will take over as manager of boxing's Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay. When Clay fought Britain's Henry Cooper last May, Jim was constantly at his side-even during early-morning roadwork sessions...
Straight Up. To work off excess poundage, Duffy ordered regular doses of roadwork, weight lifting (25 squats with 250 Ibs.), wind sprints and calisthenics. To improve Thomas' coordination, he suggested ballet lessons, and John even wangled a scholarship to the Boston Conservatory of Music. In practice sessions, Duffy heckled Thomas unmercifully. "Come on, you're going to work, work, really work," he bellowed. "You've got that bar too low. Put it up to six-nine. You've got to go up straight, John, up straight. Don't let your leg stay up there...