Word: billye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Geoff Muldaur, who co-founded the Kweskin Jug Band and was with them up until it disintegrated in 1969, is one of the main reasons Better Days is so different from Butterfield's previous band. Muldaur is an adept slide guitarist who carries several blues styles with him. He also...
Add to these satisfactions an occasional confirmation of the law's venality, a whiff of burning plastic as Southern California chars at the edges, and Archer's own pleasurable disillusions, and-for the reader who is unyoung, unrich and undelighted-you have a fantasy very nearly worth 19...
There is also an absolutely smashing, irresistibly sexy performance by Janice Rule as an "actress" called Janet Conforto, who shows up in Dime Box one day "to do a single." The photography (by Billy Williams, who shot Women in Love) is elegant without ever being too fussy or ostentatious.
The supporting players−a cowardly sheriff, the good woman, the bad woman, an exceedingly pious preacher, the cowardly and manipulative town fathers and even a friendly midget (Billy Curtis)−are stylized rather than characterized. As befits a star's role, The Stranger (he is carefully given no...
FOR MAKING what was lacking in plot irrelevant and what was there delightful, credit goes to conductor, cast and director. The overture, written and orchestrated by conductor Dean Herington, gathered the best of the tunes into a lyrical bouquet; Herington's tiny orchestra was amazingly equal to the task of...