Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dylan's new album, Nashville Skyline, which was also recorded by Columbia in the country music capital, extends and culminates his return to basic pleasures. It has an unpretentious charm unmatched by any of the eight albums he has recorded since 1961. Most of the songs are about the delight of secular love, and the swirl of his social satire has given way to an earthy, sometimes self-deprecating humor. The genial, syncopated Peggy Day, enhanced by the long, lazy melodic arch of an electric guitar, begins...
...album suggests that Dylan seems to be trying to work his way back to his own beginnings. This is pointed up by his inclusion of Girl from the North Country, which is sung as a duet with Johnny Cash. It is a song from one of his first albums, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, and it marks the first time that he has ever re-recorded one of his own numbers...
...last January's Miami Pop Festival, and last weekend she started a concert tour that will take her to Boston, New York, Chicago, Ottawa and Montreal. At the end of April, she tapes a television show in Nashville with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. Her latest album has an advance sale of 100,000 copies, a month before its release. Furthermore, she has risen from obscure poverty to ownership of a music company valued...
...first public appearance, Brooks booked her at Bill Hahn's in Connecticut, the same spot where Barbra started out. One of the first tunes Rozzie sang was People. Brooks insists that the high-pressure rush has little to do with Barbra's fame. But every album-plugging newspaper interview somehow gets around to the Streisand kinship. Roz insists that "if I could just do a fourth of what my sister did, or maybe half, I'd be happy. So long as I've done it on my own." So far, the only person who seems content...
Promises, Promises--Burt Bacharach and Hal David write some of the best and most innovative songs around, but perhaps you might prefer to buy the original cast album rather than go to this somewhat unsatisfactory distillation by Neil Simon of Billy Wilder-I. A. L. Diamond's "The Apartment." At the SHUBERT, W. 44th...