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This music sparkles with clean, crisp lines, but doesn't bite. Though Grisman and Rice chose many traditional tunes, they've failed to invest them with a sense of rootedness. The songs do not seem connected to their cultural traditions, be it Appalachian string music, Irish jug band music or African-American blues. Even when they play a great tune, as in the traditional "Wildwood Flower," the solos are surprisingly tame to the point of boredom...
...nights proved just as interesting. In the log cabin shelters our group encountered Pan Pipe and Gourmet John and Wandering Jew II, thru-hikers trekking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. These were the more pleasant evenings. On one occasion, our FOP group had the less pleasant experience of sleeping under a plastic tarp set up on a steep hillside so that all eleven group members were hugging each other. Group bonding at its best...
...living room of Rubin's house in Los Angeles. "We recorded more than 70 songs in nine months, maybe closer to 100," says Cash. "Just everything I knew. I got into areas of music that ((Rubin)) wasn't familiar with, like country gospel, black gospel, country blues, Appalachian mountain music." In the end, just 13 of the songs were selected for the finished album...
...meantime Allen has her eyes on a more immediate goal; hiking the Appalachian trail next spring--with...
Baez played songs from her new album, Play me Backwards, as well as an assortment of her old hit singles. She opened with a Dylan song before singing the haunting "Isaac and Abraham," a "Brazilo-Appalachian bible story" that resembled her old sound more than any of her new songs...