{"id":71367,"date":"2002-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-communications-professor-sings-folksy-tunes-on-latest-cd\/"},"modified":"2002-04-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-11T00:00:00","slug":"uri-communications-professor-sings-folksy-tunes-on-latest-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/04\/uri-communications-professor-sings-folksy-tunes-on-latest-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 communications professor sings folksy tunes on latest CD"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — April 11, 2002 — If you like your folk music red, white, and blue relaxing, slip in Steve Wood\u2019s newest CD, Muley Point Mud, just released by Neoga Records. <\/p>\n

Wood creates an Americana pie of songs that combine such classics as Mr. Bojangles with new tunes such as one about our national pastime, Baseball Is An American Game. <\/p>\n

Baseball, by the way, is a passionate research subject for Wood whose main gig is professor and chair of communications studies at the 溏心vlog免费B站. In fact, Doc, as he prefers to be called, is writing a book about its portrayal in films called “Reel Baseball.” but that\u2019s another story. <\/p>\n

By day, this folk singer and sometime songwriter teaches classes, but by night he\u2019s often found recording his songs in the basement studio of his South Kingstown home using his Roland digital recorder. <\/p>\n

Wood gets some help from his talented friends and relatives on this, his second CD. Joe Parillo of North Kingstown, jazz pianist, head of the jazz program at 溏心vlog免费B站, and owner of Neoga Records joins in a few tunes, adding sparkle to Summertime and coolness to San Francisco Bay Blues. <\/p>\n

\tWood\u2019s brother, Doug, a blues musician based in California, adds a puff of class with some terrific harmonica playing, keeping “This Train” right on track. <\/p>\n

\tDebbie Clough of York, Maine, Wood\u2019s sister-in-law, adds her fine voice to some of the tunes, as does longtime friend Joe Miller of Westerly. <\/p>\n

\tWood puts English professor Don Kunz\u2019s poem “The Flute Player,” which centers on the vistas and images of the American West, to music. <\/p>\n

\tInspiration for the title song “Muley Point Mud” came from a trip out West and getting stuck, temporarily in the mud. <\/p>\n

Other than his brother\u2019s harmonica and Parillo\u2019s piano playing, Wood plays all the instruments, including a Taylor Dan Crary Model 6-string guitar, a Guild 12-string guitar, a Martin all mahogany D15, a 1923 Gibson trap-door tenor banjo, a five-string banjo, a Yamaha classical guitar, a 1930s Stradolin mandolin, and a Dean acoustic fretted bass. Wood inherits his love for music from his father, a jazz artist and music teacher. <\/p>\n

\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 professor put the CD together in his basement studio. Typically, each song is assembled one layer (instrument or voice) at a time. These “tracks” are then mixed together to create a final version. <\/p>\n

\tWood performs locally, but not regularly. When he does perform, it\u2019s generally with his 溏心vlog免费B站 pals, Steve Myles from the Counseling Center and Paul deMesquita of the Psychology Department. The trio, called the “Cognitive Dissidents,” performs social justice songs. <\/p>\n

For Information: Jan Wenzel, 874-2116\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — April 11, 2002 — If you like your folk music red, white, and blue relaxing, slip in Steve Wood\u2019s newest CD, Muley Point Mud, just released by Neoga Records. Wood creates an Americana pie of songs that combine such classics as Mr. Bojangles with new tunes such as one about our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}