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...adept slide guitarist who carries several blues styles with him. He also contributes betwixt-and-between vocals (which are even better in live performance) and comes up with enjoyable arrangements. The drummer, Christopher Parker, is perfect in his blues discipline, delivering a steady, unadorned beat. He and bassist Billy Rich make up a solid, healthy rhythm section. Then we come to Butterfield himself, still belting out those sonatized harp solos, remaining one of the few white musician-singers around today doing a capable job with the blues...
...dancing. In spite of that preference, Hound Dog has managed to construct a respectable following, in Chicago, as well as on this coast, and is one of the more frequently mentioned "bluesmen's bluesman." He plays a $29.95 El Cheapo Sears Electric Guitar, and runs a band with no bassist, just a second guitarist, who may be Hound Dog's cousin or brother-in-law, and a drummer. But make no mistake about it, any joint with Hound Dog Taylor in it, will jump...
What we have here is a conscious mixture of the less than definable music Traffic's made since 1967--elements of psychedelia, sixties rock, some rhythm and blues, some jazz--and the distinctive southern R 'n' B played in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Traffic's last rhythm section, bassist Ric Grech and Jim Gordon on drums, were rockers, pure and simple, particularly Gordon's white rock/gospel/white R 'n' B background. (He was with the originators of white gospel, Delaney and Bonnie, as well as with Cocker, Leon Russell, and Derek's Dominos). New members Roger Hawkins and David Hood, on drums...
Beck's other consistent focus is two guys named Bogart and Appice. He's wanted to play with them since the collapse of their original band, Long Island's infamous Vanilla Fudge (for which they were bassist and drummer, respectively.) Beck, Bogart and Appice make for Beck's fifth new band since...
FURAY'S BALLADS are infused with country sentiment. Both he and bassist Timothy Schmit write songs of unrequited love of slightly less fervor than Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" (with similar arrangements.) Songs like "What If I Should Say I Love You," with very large organ sounds coming from Rusty Young's pedal steel guitar, and final choruses of shouting begin to combine elements of rhythm and blues with the country arrangements. But Poco wraps each song in its own harmonies; because it is one of the few groups with four blendable voices (nobody...