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The Palm Beach Post
January 6, 1989
GROUP IS `KEEPIN' THE BLUES ALIVE'

The South Florida Blues Society swings back into gear with the new year to live up to its slogan of "Keepin' the blues alive." The society is a non- profit organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of American blues traditions.

The group's first concert of 1989 features New Orleans-based guitarist Spencer Bohren. Bohren, who plays slide and lap steel guitar and takes his cues from the likes of Blind Willie McTell, Muddy Waters, Bukka White and Jimmy Reed, performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bleachers, 501 Village Road, West Palm Beach. Bleachers is located in the Olympiad fitness complex. Admission is $5. For concert or membership information call the Blues Society at 586-7487. BLUES AT THE CAFE

The Respectable Street Cafe, 518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach, which offers one of the most eclectic concert calendars in South Florida, is also keeping the blues alive, at least on Sunday nights.

Future blues shows include the Rev. Billy C. Wurtz on Jan. 15. Admission is $3. Koko Taylor performs on Jan. 22. Admission is $10.

Reggae bands also appear weekly at the club. Upcoming concerts include House of Assembly Jan. 19. Admission is $5. The Killer Bees play Jan. 25. Admission is $8.

Rock concerts being booked include: The Connells in mid-January, Jane's Addiction in early February, the Swimming Pool Qs in February and the Red Hot Chili Peppers in March. For more information, call the cafe at 832-9999.

JAZZING THINGS UP

Contemporary jazz and New Age music fans can check out Grover Washington Jr., Carla Bley, Take 6 and others on Ben Sidran's New Visions program on cable's VH-1 channel at 11 p.m. each Sunday.

Saxophonist Washington will appear Sunday to discuss his music and will also perform accompanied by guitarist Fareed Hague and bassist Tony Levin.

A capella sextet Take 6, a cross between the Nylons and Manhattan Transfer, perform Jan. 15 as does avant-garde pianist and composer Carla Bley. `ROCK `N ROLL CUSINE'

Mick Jagger's shrimp curry got rave reviews, but Weird Al Yankovic's peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches were hardly touched during a buffet luncheon at New York's Hard Rock Cafe celebrating Rock `n' Roll Cuisine, a cookbook filled with recipes from the stars. Proceeds from the book will benefit Phoenix House, which runs drug-rehab centers worldwide. Cuisine was the brainchild of rock wives Robin Le Mesurier (who's married to Rod Stewart's former guitarist of the same name) and Peggy Sue Honeyman-Scott (the widow of the late Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott). Most of the recipes are for edible dishes, with exceptions such as Jools Holland's stag-beetle sushi. At lunch were Louise Goffin, Rod Stewart and Meat Loaf.

BEING `JUST CYNDI'

"I went to Russia to run away from everything," says Cyndi Lauper, reporting on her recent visit to the Soviet Union as part of the first international songwriters summit, Music Speaks Louder Than Words. "There, I was just Cyndi, not Cyndi Lauper." Lauper was one of 24 U.S. writers who collaborated on songs with their Soviet counterparts.

-- From staff and wire reports