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Cunningly disguised in a yellow tie and three steel finger-picks, Pete Seeger '40 wowed 'em last night at M.I.T. Mr. Seeger sang and played various primitive instruments (including the banjo) all with equal, if not astounding, facility. Between the lines of the songs he inserted fragments of a compelling ideology...
...only does Mr. Seeger perform travesties on religious music, accompanying delicate oriental melodies with his down-home two-four banjo rhythm, but he also complements a tender African melody with his own lyrics, composed, he tells us, while pouring concrete for his house on the Hudson River. And they sound like it. They tell, in a strange meter, how loneLEE it is TO watch the lights BLINK off A-cross the riVER in bosTON when you have to GO back to YOUR room aLONE. Poetic "license" is one thing, even for a poet, but wanton distortion of the hillbilly mind...
...style five hundred miles and years away. One may call it lack of imagination when he treats a powerful song of death as casually as if it were a nursery rhyme. But one becomes aware with increasing discomfort that unerringly to perform such malalignment of styles with such flashy banjo technique Mr. Seeger must be a much more calculating man than one wants to hear simple music from...
...Souchon Recalls Early New Orleans Minstrel Days and Blues (Golden Crest). During the day Dr. Edward Souchon, 67, functions as a surgeon and as director of a New Orleans life insurance firm. At night he can be found strumming a jazz guitar with the Banjo Bums or the Six and Seven-Eighths Band. In his first LP starring role, Jazz Authority Souchon offers some rambling recollections of pre-World War I New Orleans music and provides a few choice examples-Sweet Baby Doll, Animules Ball-in a gravelly, sowbelly voice that has the unvarnished ring of authenticity...
...Lost City Ramblers, a trio of college men, sing a brand of hillbilly known as "Blue Grass." Born in Kentucky, the style calls for a complex string accompaniment-in this case on five-string banjo, fiddle and guitar-and a frenetically fast vocal line unreeled to a foot-slapping accompaniment. The Ramblers learned their best songs-Beware, O Take Care and Hopalong Peter-from such fabled Blue Grass groups as the Buckle-Busters and Dr. Smith's Champion Horse-Hair Pullers...