European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tito Flores left rides the mechanical Bull that longhorn owner Tommy mutter says is a hit with germans. Where Europe a meets country by Ron Mckinney staff writer Hen it comes to two stepping and fun Loving crowds the Best Choice for country music in. Europe May be saturday nights at the longhorn club in Stuttgart Germany. On saturday nights up to 1,000 people venture into the former warehouse that in 1984 was converted into what owner Tommy mutter claims is the largest country music nightclub outside North America. Seven years ago the crowd was almost exclusively american. But now due to the troop draw Downs in the Baden Wurttemberge area and an increased German interest in country music americans make up less than 30 percent of the clientele. That s Good news to american cowboys some say. There Are five German girls to every Guy Here says Gaylon Lecuyer 35, who drives two hours every weekend from Wil Flecken. Close to it acknowledged Brandt Konkler 22, who accompanies Lecuyer on the trips i was Talkin to four or five. Of pm last  Heike Hager 24, has been coming to the club since 1985 and has noticed the absence of americans she spent much of one recent Friday evening dancing with it Friend a girl Friend. There s not so Many Here she said of americans. There s Only a few German Guys that can dance Good so you Only have a few people you can dance  regardless of the Guys to gals ratio regulars insist this is no meat Market. You be gotta know them As friends first there s respect Here said Tim Simpson another eight year Veteran of Good times and Good Beer at the longhorn. This is an informal nightclub a place without a serious dress code. Regulars describe it As open and Friendly. You can Wear Cowboy boots or Tennis shoes a Stetson or a Mack truck Cap with the Bill curled into a half Moon. These germans come into Here because they want to meet americans no matter if it s girls or Guys Muller said. He also said people Are drawn to his club for its 800-Square-foot dance floor and the bands he hires. We have better bands than the american military clubs he asserted with a chuckle because we pay  and just because Stuttgart is definitely East of the Nashville network it in t missing out on the country dances. Among the line dances performed there Are the achy Breaky heart reggae Cowboy Copperhead Road and swinging. The club has two areas. The ground floor includes the dance floor stage two bars a mechanical Bull pinball and foosball games and dozens of tables. Upstairs is a third bar Pool tables and several Booths overlooking the dance floor. The mechanical Bull 5 Marks about $3 a ride is run by members of Stuttgart s chapter of the european Rodeo and Cowboy association and serves As an attraction to the German crowd. They Don t want to get on it they like to watch Muller said. Although the club is packed every saturday night tables Are readily available Friday nights. Bands play on both nights. The club offers dancing lessons on wednesday and sunday evenings and is often booked for special events such As a March 10 concert by the tubes. In the past the club has hosted the Charlie Daniels band Johnny paycheck Moe Bandy Shelly West and Freddie fender among others. To reach the club from Heilbronn. Lake a-h1 South to the Stuttgart a Offenhausen exit. Take b-10 toward Stuttgart centrum. Four Kilometres after passing through Tunnel take the Wangen exit off b-10 and take right at the Light onto . Take the be left before the intersection with the traffic Light onto Kesse Strasse. Then take the following left to  6. Cover charge is 6 Marks on saturdays. For More information Call 0711 -426838. Final Roundup for pm & by Ron Mckinney staff writer decade of local country music tradition comes to a close this Spring when the Leader of Dallas county Green Heads off into the Sunset bound for the Missouri ozarks and a 120-acre Bee ranch. Jimmy Carter a 38-year-old government employee at Heidelberg Germany has been heading the four member country Rock Bluegrass group since its Humble beginnings in the late 70s in Missouri. In those Early Days the musicians came from adjoining Dallas and Green counties thus the band s name. In the past 10 years since Carter arrived in Germany As an army journalist and then became a civilian morale welfare and recreation employee Dallas county Green has been knocking around the military club circuit playing 70 to 110 shows a year. Anybody who thinks playing bands is easy spend a weekend with us. If you Don t love it you Ain t Gonna last Long said Carter just before taking the. Stage one night last month at the Rainbow club in Darmstadt Germany. Carter has his own Brand of country Rock music. But he understands he s on stage to entertain an is Michael Abrams Jimmy Carter is ending the 10-year european run of his band Dallas county Green. Audience and that can mean playing a More traditional style of music. And at the Rainbow club Vicky a Patron who was very proud to say she was from Kentucky told Carter they did t play country music like his in the Bluegrass state. Carter acquiesced. When he pulled out the Banjo and began strumming Vicky was the first on the floor to dance. " if you re a real straight hard Core country redneck you re probably not going to like Dallas county Green Carter said pausing to give it some thought. Well you might. We be got some real Loyal  Carter supplies Lead vocals with his versatile voice and he plays the guitar violin Banjo blues Harp and mandolin. He s also a prolific writer. I write about people. I write about real things. I be never been a Cowboy but i be seen some strange stuff Carter said. His dedication to music is matched by his Devotion to the native american inter tribal society a worldwide organization promoting the beliefs and cultures of american indians. He said he was inspired by the great spirit to write _. Set me free a country music Anthem he has dedicated to the society. The song addresses the native americans loss of Freedom and How the concept of Freedom was not introduced to the native culture until the White Man came along and took it away. It was a lesson hard earned he said taking a line from the song. A compact disc named set me free is being recorded and May be available at his shows before he leaves april 1. Almost every night Carter takes the stage at a military club someone approaches him and asks to get onstage and Jam with the band or even to sing. Carter says he always lets them. Sometimes it s terrible and sometimes it s wonderful. You never know he said. On this night at the Rainbow club it was Greg Arredondo who took the stage to sing Garth Brooks friends in Low places and he was More wonderful than he was terrible. Probably More importantly the crowd and Arredondo s friends in particular really enjoyed his number. This Ain t Nashville Carter said. This Means  Carter said that Over the years one of his biggest challenges has been to replace musicians when they re transferred to new duty assignments. He estimates he has gone through 70 band members. In the last year he resolved the persistent turnover problem by hiring German musicians Bass guitarist Frank Appel guitarist Wolfgang Frochlich and drummer Freddie Christopher it All comes to an end however when he boards a plane bound for the Missouri ozarks to work on the Bee ranch he paid off with his weekend gigs. While in Missouri he plans to continue to pursue that elusive hit hoping to sell his songs to recording artists. It drives me crazy he said of the constant turnover of musicians. Then he laughed. This time it s my  pop singles 1.1 will always love you Whitney Houston 2. A whole new world Perabo Bryson and Regina Belle 3. If i Ever fall in love Shai 4. Saving forever for you Shanice 6. Ordinary world Duran Duran 6. In the still of the note i la remember Boyz ii men 7. Or. Wendal arrested development 8. 7, Prince and the . 9. Rump Shaker wreck a effect 10. I m every woman Whitney Houston top albums 1. Soundtrack to the bodyguard various artists 2. Breathless Kenny g. 3. The chronic or. Dre 4. Unplugged Eric Clapton 5. Some gave All Billy Ray Cyrus 6. Timeless the classics Michael Bolton 7. Ten Pearl Jam 8. If i Ever fall in love Shai 9. Soundtrack to Aladdin Walt Disney 10. Pocket full of Krypton note spin doctors country singles 1. Can i Trust you with my heart Travis Tritt 2. In a week or two Diamond Rio 3. Too Busy being in love Doug Stone 4. My strongest weakness Wynonna 5. Take it Back Reba Mcentire 6. Queen of Memphis Confederate Railroad 7. Let go of the Stone John Anderson 8. Look heart no hands Randy Travis 9. Drive South Suzy Bogguss 10. All these years Sawyer Brownr a singles 1.1 will always love you Whitney Houston 2. Donl walk away Jade 3. Hip hop Hooray naughty by nature 4. Quality time i five 5. Get away Bobby Brown 6. Or. Wendal arrested development 7. Reminisce Mary a Blige 8. Rebirth of Slick Cool like d 9able planets9. If i Ever fall in love Shai 10. Here we go Agall portrait adult contemporary 1. A whole new world pea to Bryson & Regina Belle 2. Forever in love Kenny g. 3. When she cries restless heart 4. Faithful go West 5. No mistakes Patty Smyth 6. Never a time genesis 7.1 will always love you Whitney Houston 8. Feels like heaven Peter Cetera with Chaka Khan 9. Love can move mountains Celine Dion 10. Heal the world Michael Jackson jazz albums 1. If you love me Cecilia Bartoli 2. Tousle Matins do Monde Jordal Savall 3. Baroque duet Kathleen Battle Wynton Marsalis 4. Kathleen Battle it Carnegie Hall Kathleen Battle 5. Gorecky symphony no. 3, Upshaw London sinfonietta 6. In concert Carreras Domingo Pavarotti 7. Horowitz discovered treasures Vladimir Horowitz 8. Shostakovich 24 preludes pc fugues Keith Jarrett. 9. Opera s greatest moments various artists 10. Amore Luciano Pavarotti comp of d by billboard on disk changes Christopher Williams Uptown Mca f imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Teddy Pendergrass will Blush to hear what Christopher Williams does with come go with me. Listen to this number or Many of the other tracks on this album and it s obvious that Williams has Pendergrass soulful shout and a breathy Overman croon Down perfectly. But there s More to his sound than Mere mimicry and the Best moments Here come when he moves beyond his most obvious influences v As he does in Good Luvi Nhis bittersweet duet with Mary j. Blige or Ort the new Jack influenced every Little thing u do. Still it would t Hurt i Williams were to go through a few More changes before delivering his next album. If i Ever fall in love Shai gasoline Alley first impressions Aren t always reliable. After hearing the Shal single if i Ever fall in love it s easy to assume that All of the group s material follows the Lead of this a Capella Gem fleshing out romantic ballads with Lush harmonies and languorous soulful Lead singing. But that approach Only holds for the first half of Shai s debut album skip to Side two and the music relies As much on rhythm tracks and rap Breaks As it does on choral Charm. The Shai Guys Are Good enough at Riding the Groove to make waiting for the Day or flava seem just As scintillating As their first single. J. D. Cont done the Baltimore Sun Bone machine Tom Waits Island of Waits is one True bellowed one of the greatest howlers of his generation. Francis Ford Coppola hired Waits to do it As Renfield the Bug craving Vampire Wannabe in the film Dracula and this album Waits first studio album in five years could have been his audition for the role. It s dark and scary stuff out of Kilter with the Daylight world odder even than his marvelous 1985 release rain dogs. The lyrics Are Brilliant and brutish the philosophizing of a Boozy Brooder who s toppled off bar stools a few too Many times. The album title describes the music stripped to the Bone with Only guitar Bass and deathly mechanized percussion accompanying Waits Cement mixer voice on most songs. The album ends with a duet More a growling Duel Between Waits and Keith Richards that underlines the impression that Waits is perhaps Rock s fiercest songwriter not giving a Damn whether listeners can stand the Stark raving mad truths he sings. By David Germain the associated press leap of Faith various artists Mca his Quick primer on the essential Joys of Black gospel spotlights leading lights like Albertina Walker Edwin Hawkins and guest Church lady Patti Labelle fronting a smoking choir. On the secular tip Lyle Lovett John Pagano and even Don Henley put their own agreeable spin on the genre. Chris Willman los Angeles times waifs 18 the stars and stripes Friday february 12, 1993 the stars and stripes 19