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Charles Deemer teaches screenwriting at Portland State University. He is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and pioneer in hyperdrama. He was the editor of Oregon Literary Review and the artistic director of Small Screen Video.
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2 comments:
Thanks for putting Lightnin Hopkins up there, Charles.
Now I see why Chris Smither says his style is made up one-third of Lightnin's East-Texas blues.
Hell of a folklore class you had at UCLA. Damn.
Best, eric
Eric, a remarkable class indeed! Advantage of being in a big city, plus some lucky coincidences: it was an afternoon class, so the artists were awake by then ha ha; the prof was chums with the owner of the Ash Grove, the major venue for folk and blues artists in L.A. at the time; the prof had a budget to bring in guest artists -- we whoever was at the Ash Grove was likely to visit our class in an intimate setting for an hour.
The Ash Grove itself was remarkable. Artists stayed a week or two, performing Wed-Sun. You could get a monthly pass. It was a tavern setting, you didn't have to leave after a set. Playing there at the time was a group of grad students in musicology who later became Canned Heat but one night they'd be blues, the next Eastern European gypsy, the next bluegrass, they could do anything. As you may guess, I practically lived at the Ash Grove then.
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