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But there's an indirect critique of society here as well. For people who feel trapped in places where connections are dishonest and grappling, Betts cuts loose to the rootlessness of the road. Then he heads somewhere, to a place where human contact is open and real, people waiting on...
Words like these are meant to be as unobtrusive as the voice that sings them: a calico background saying nothing on its own. The guitar and the fiddle and the steel and the piano are the real talkers, but they speak the same language. Betts's guitar riffs play on...
(For Betts, the community isn't a tight family. That would be too paranoid and insulated. On the record Brothers and Sisters there is no picture of the band, only of an assembled clan of dozens of men and women, many children. On stage, Betts's tour is called "An...
For one thing, Gregg's voice was gone, replaced by Betts's plain, unpretentious vocal that weaved in and out of songs so that you hardly noticed the transitions--a bluegrass voice, nondescript. The music itself was still rock--as up-tempo as ever, built around solos; more lyrical and...
California counterculture has a word for Betts'tone--mellow, but that's not quite right: a little too mindless and innocent--the Youngbloods, jugs of wine on grassy hillsides, women with long straight hair strumming guitars. Betts's music is mellow in that it's ripe, at peace because it...