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Smither's chief assets are a rough, powerful voice, the ability to interpret and arrange music with understanding, and a talent in saying things simply, but not tritely. With the help of Eric Kaz, who plays fine back-up paino and harmonica on Smither's Don't It Drag On, he performs Dylan's "Down in the Flood" more excitingly than Dylan, a usually impossible feat...
...compositional skill. Wainwright is an infectiously good guitarist and he uses extremely little back-up music. This reinforces the album's overwhelming sense of aloneness and, because Wainwright is so good, he carries the show successfully...
...late Gus Grissom, Young made three orbits of the earth aboard the first manned Gemini flight. One year later, he commanded the Gemini 10 mission, and in 1969 flew within nine miles of the moon's surface aboard Apollo 10's command module. Young was also a back-up crewman for Gemini 6, Apollo 7 and the ill-starred Apollo 13; in all, he has been undergoing intensive flight training continuously for seven years. That arduous routine contributed to the breakup of his marriage: the father of two, he was quietly divorced from his first wife, Barbara, last...
...more sophisticated arrangements, where complicated images like letters are required, there may be a larger number of segments and back-up circuitry of greater complexity. Even so, many scientists are convinced that in the future light-emitting diodes will be increasingly used in everything from wristwatches to auto dashboards. As Dr. Henry Kressel, head of semiconductor device research at RCA, puts it: "The LED's day has come...
...catchy, but the other songs, even when pretty or genuinely interesting, are not especially exciting. The drive of the performance generally outclasses the material itself. Paul, like Mary, has a superb voice. A fine folk guitarist, he has had enough sense to keep his voice out in front of back-up instruments...