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...song which should escape criticism is "The Ballad of Racist Blair's," a pointed and detailed account of a demonstration against a Boston storeowner who raised his prices on welfare check...
...Carnegie concert and another Guthrie Memorial held at the Hollywood Bowl in 1970. Especially intriguing is the variety of musical treatment to which Woody's songs lend themselves. On the one hand there is Richie Havens turning the gruff, striding Vigilante Man into a mournful, gripping blues ballad. Or Odetta, virtually inventing a western soul style for the happy-go-lucky Ramblin' Round. When Guthrie talked about hard rock he meant a substance men mined in a hole in the ground-something you'd never guess listening to Bob Dylan and the five members of what would...
...Ballad of a Soldier, a Russian one, but human too. Kirkland House Dining Room...
Paul's performance is similarly the chief virtue on Paul and. He sings Arlo Guthrie's "Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad No. 16 Blues" better than Guthrie does, and "The Wedding Song," whose writer is unnamed, is a delicate and truly meaningful love song...
...Paul's own songs, "Tiger," which talks about cleansing the spirit through faith, and "Hey Sad Sack," a ballad, are the most memorable. "Been on the Road Too Long" is energetic and 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...